Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society

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Contact Information
Address:32 Mansfield St,

Glasgow,

Scotland

G11 5QP Telephone: +44 (0) 141 339 8303 Hours of Operation: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 1pm-4pm  Directions/Parking Map: Website contact form: https://www.gwsfhs.org.uk/contact/ Website: https://www.gwsfhs.org.uk/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gwsfhs/

Research Centre
The Centre is home to books, maps, CDs, fiches, and publications from other societies. It offers free access to family history websites, and expert volunteers are on hand to help using the equipment and the resources.

Data Sets
The Society is gradually digitising its unique data sets and they will publish them on their website when they are ready. Members will be able to search these records which include MIs, parish registers, and an ancestral marriage index.

Library
There are approximately 4,000 items available for members to consult: books, journals, maps, old registers, and family trees submitted by members. There is also a unique collection of unpublished or privately published family histories and charts. The focus of the collection is Glasgow and the west of Scotland but they also cover other places relevant to Scottish genealogy. There are books on Ireland, military history, DNA and if you are a beginner to family history there are books to get you started.

If you are looking for a specific book or want to know what they have on a subject or place then search the catalogue at

Services
The society has a Research Service for members living too far away to visit the Research Centre in person.

The Research Service is carried out by a small team of volunteers who are members of the Society. They are enthusiastic amateurs with some knowledge of genealogy and a little spare time to give. The amount of research they can do is therefore limited.

The Research Team will be happy to investigate a single ancestor of your choice, and provide you with a report on everything they have discovered – family details, occupations, addresses and so on. Everything, in fact, that you need to pursue the search further by yourself, using the sources employed in the report.

The Research Service covers Glasgow and the old counties of Lanarkshire, Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire, Ayrshire, Bute and parts of Argyll. If your ancestors came from outside these areas, they would recommend that you contact the family history society for that area or use ScotlandsPeople, either online or at one of the Family History Centres across Scotland.

No fee is charged but all expenses must be reimbursed. This covers outlays such as postage, photocopying, copies from statutory registers, phone expenses etc. They ask for a deposit of £10 at the beginning of the research and this is deductible from the final expenses account. They are however a charitable organisation dependent on subscriptions and sales to survive, so a financial donation would be appreciated.

History
The society was founded in 1977. The society is a charity registered with the Scottish Charity Regulator, number SC010866.

Tips for Your Visit
The Library and Research Centre is located at the basement level. To enter the building, press the door entry bell for Unit 13 and wait for a reply. There is no access for wheel chair users.

Mansfield Street in Partick is a short walk from the Kelvinhall Subway station. See SPT Subway Map. It is a 10 minute walk from the Partick railway station. There are trains to Partick from the Glasgow Queen Street Low Level and Glasgow Central Low Level stations.

There are frequent bus services along Dumbarton Road which crosses Mansfield Street. Firstbus route 77 is a direct service from Glasgow Buchanan Bus Station. Firstbus routes 2 and 3 run between the city centre and Partick.

On street parking outside of the centre is limited and metered.

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