Research Centre

Our research centre and meeting place at Unit 13, 32 Mansfield Street, Partick in Glasgow, is situated just off Dumbarton Road and within easy reach of Kelvinhall Underground Station. It is well served by public transport and is open:-

  • Tuesdays from 2pm to 4.30pm
  • Thursdays from 10am to 8:30pm
  • Saturdays from 2pm to 4:30pm
    except for Easter Saturday and 3-4 weeks over Christmas & New Year
  • The Second Saturday of each month from 12 noon to 4:30pm

Note Non-members can join the Society when they visit and then get immediate access to the collections.
Facilities include photocopier, research computers, microfiche and microfilm viewers, a fiche/film copier and access to the Internet. Guidance is available to members on request.

Our library holdings are listed here

In addition we hold:

  • The 1841, 1851 and 1861 census films for our area & the indexes for these.
  • The 1881 census & indexes for the whole of Scotland, England & Wales.
  • The 1891 census index for the whole of Scotland and the films for our area.
  • The 1901 census index for the whole of Scotland and the films for our area.

See Library list for more detail.

GLASGOW & WEST OF SCOTLAND FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY,
UNIT 13,
32 MANSFIELD STREET,
GLASGOW G11 5QP
SCOTLAND.

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Next Meeting - Venue Change

The venue for the September meeting of 20th September, will be at Hillhead Baptist Church, Cresswell St, off Byres Rd just round the corner from Hillhead Library at usual time of 7.30pm. If anyone can come earlier to help set out chairs ie 7pm onwards it would be appreciated.

Next Meeting

Mon 20th September
Speaker:David W. Webster
Title:Why Can’t I Find That Record?

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Mon 30th Aug
Donna Ambler
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