When someone dies and you need to register their death, you will find Registrars based in most communities in South Lanarkshire.
As well as dealing with registration, they can also provide civil funeral services. If you need registration services in an emergency outwith office hours, for example over a holiday weekend, contact the emergency out-of-hours number.
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Ancestral Scotland
How to research your Scottish roots. Includes a family history search of the 1881 census. www.ancestralscotland.com
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
For information on British and Commonwealth soldiers that died in the Great War and after, look up the Commonwealth War Graves Commission www.cwgc.org
Cruse Bereavement Care
Cruse helps the bereaved understand their grief and cope with their loss. They provide support and offer information, advice, education and training. www.crusebereavementcare.org.uk
General Register Office for Scotland (GROS)
GROS administers the registration of births, deaths, marriages, divorces and adoptions in Scotland, undertakes the Census every 10 years and prepares and publishes demographic information. www.gro-scotland.gov.uk
Glasgow City Archives
Archives service for Glasgow City Council, GCA is located within the Mitchell Library in Glasgow. It holds a large number of local government and private collections relating to Glasgow and west and central Scotland. Its catalogues are also available via SCAN. www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Residents/Leisure_Culture/Libraries/Collections
National Archives
The National Archives of England, Wales and the United Kingdom (TNA) holds records of central government and the courts of law, dating from the Domesday Book of 1086 to the present day. It offers an online searchable catalogue and guides to the collections. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
National Archives of Scotland
NAS is responsible for the collection, preservation and provision of access to Scotland's public and legal records. It also holds a large number of records of private businesses, organisations and individuals. These records, which date from the 12th century onwards are a key resource for Scottish history. The NAS website has an online searchable catalogue and guides to the collections. www.nas.gov.uk
National Register of Archives
The National Register of Archives provides details of collections held across the United Kingdom which relate to British history. The NRA provides a searchable database of collections on corporate, family, personal or place name. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/
The official government source of genealogical data for Scotland. Containing nearly 40 million records, it's one of the world's largest resources of genealogical information and one of the largest single information resources on the web. www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Scottish Archive Network
SCAN is an online network of local authority, university, religious, business and private archives across Scotland. The site provides access to searchable catalogues of each participating archive including South Lanarkshire Council. SCAN also operates the Scottish Documents and Scottish Handwriting websites. www.scan.org.uk
Scottish Documents
If you are researching your family history this site is invaluable. Scottish Documents offers free access to a fully searchable index of over 520,000 Scottish wills and testaments dating from 1500 to 1901. High quality colour digital images of documents cost £5 each.
www.scottishdocuments.com
Scran
Scran is the online learning image service with 300,000 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media. It can be used as quality clip art or for learning applications. www.scran.ac.uk