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FAMILY NAMES
Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society
Lanarkshire Family History Society
The Lanarkshire Surname List
Lanarkshire surname list
GOVERNMENT SITES
Glasgow City Council - home page.
Glasgow City Council Genealogy centre
North Lanarkshire Council - home page.
South Lanarkshire Council - home page.
HISTORY AND CULTURE
GLASGOW - newspaper clipping on the Glasgow plague from News of the World 23 December 1900 
MOTHERWELL Heritage Centre - includes local studies page.
North Lanarkshire Council - local History Room (Motherwell).
Caledonian Railway - historical details. Also St. Rollox Railway Works (Glasgow) and the Gretna railway accident at Quintinshill (22 May 1915).
Shipbuilding on the River Clyde
Scottish tenement buildings
SS Daphne disaster occured 3rd July 1883 at Linthouse, Govan. While being launched the ship capsized, killing 124 person on board. History page including most names.
LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS AND ARCHIVES
Glasgow City council - library locations.
Glasgow City Council - family and local history Archives.
Glasgow City Council - The Glasgow Collection is a rich and unique source of information relating to Glasgow, its history and its development.
Familia - Glasgow - Directory of family history resources held in public libraries providing information about libraries and their holdings.
Familia - North Lanarkshire - Directory of family history resources held in public libraries providing information about libraries and their holdings.
Familia - South Lanarkshire - Directory of family history resources held in public libraries providing information about libraries and their holdings.
Glasgow City Libraries and Archives - holds the records of the Glasgow Corporation, private, business, shipbuilding records and more.
Glasgow University Archives and Business Records Centre - preserves academic, business, and health records for the west of Scotland.
Business Archives Council of Scotland - for the preservation of Scottish business records at Glasgow University.
Greater Glasgow Health Board (GGHB) Archive - archives of the hospitals in the Glasgow area held by Glasgow University.
Scottish Brewing Archive (SBA) - repository for past and present business records from the brewing industry at Glasgow University.
Scottish Universities Special Collections & Archives Group - University of Glasgow.
LENZIEMILL Archives - depository for the written and photographic memory of North Lanarkshire.
North Lanarkshire Council - libraries & Information.
South Lanarkshire Council - libraries & Information.
South Lanarkshire Council - researching family history in South Lanarkshire libraries.
North Lanarkshire Council Archive Centre, Lenziemill - The centre holds records of the former councils which now make up North Lanarkshire as well as local records and photographs on businesses, estates, families form the greater North Lanarkshire area as well as the surrounding towns and villages of Cumbernauld, Kilsyth, Moodiesburn and Chryston.
Heatherbank Museum of Social Work.
Museum of Scottish Country Life .
New Lanark Trust also at www.robert-owen.com
LOCAL WEBSITES
AIRDRIE - history website.
BARNHILL - residents of Barony Poorhouse 1881 Census.
CAMBUSLANG - list of inhabitants 1806.
CAMBUSLANG - 1861 census details of selected enumeration districts only.
CAMBUSLANG - Westburn Cemetery and Cambuslang Parish Kirkyard
CAMBUSLANG - Hearth Tax Roll 1691.
CAMBUSLANG - parish memorial inscriptions 1722-1854 page 1 ,
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CAMBUSLANG - Heather's World Exclusive Genealogy Resources for Cambuslang Parish
CAMBUSNETHAN - 1861 census, selected enumeration districts only.
CLYDEBANK - (Dunbartonshire) list of civilians killed WW2 page 1 ,
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CRAWFORD - 1841 census details (selected enumeration districts).
DALSERF - 1841 census details enumeration district 1, enumeration district 2,
eumeration district 3
GLASGOW - City Parish Poorhouse.
GLASGOW - 1927 Directory.
GLASGOW - Parish of Glasgow number 644, Register of Deaths 1855.
GLASGOW - internment list from the Southern Necropolis.
GLASGOW - Southern Necropolis interment list.
GLASGOW - wills from the Commissariot of Glasgow 1547-1800.
GLASGOW - genealogical index to extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Glasgow Volume 1 : Minutes & Accounts 1573-1642.
GLASGOW - genealogical index to Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Glasgow Volume 2 : Minutes & Accounts 1630-1662.
GLASGOW - Records of the Burgh extracts, from the Glasgow Burgh records, 1573-1690.
GLASGOW - Ramshorn Cemetery inscriptions, work still in progress.
GLASGOW - A Municipal study, from The Century Illustrated Magazine Nov 1889-April 1890. Pages 1-8 and Pages 9-16. Each file contains 8 scanned pages and is in .zip format. File sizes are around 1.0MB.
GORBALS - The Gorbals Story
GOVAN - residents of Govan Combination Poorhouse Hospital Asylum 1881 Census.
GOVAN - Part directory of 1909. Covers Govan Road, Helen Street &
Queen Street only.
GOVAN - The Govan Story; how the fishing village of Govan developed to become a major force in the Clyde's shipbuilding history.
GOVAN - information and links from Govan Old Parish Church.
HAMILTON & CAMPSIE - wills from the Commissariot of Hamilton and Campsie 1564-1800.
HUTCHESONTOWN - diary of a U.P. Church Elder 1853-54.
LANARK - wills from the Commissariot of Lanark 1595-1800.
LARKHALL - cemetery lair.
LARKHALL & DALSERF - some war memorials and cemetaries.
LANARK - a collection of Lanark-related links, transcriptions, places and reference material.
LAUDER - wills from the Commissariot of Lauder 1561-1800.
MARYHILL - parish church old burying ground.
MARYHILL - memorial inscriptions from Maryhill Parish Church burying ground.
MONKLANDS - The effects of the industrial revolution on 'The Moss', located between Airdrie & Coatbridge.
MONKLANDS Online - family History and Genealogy Information.
MOTHERWELL - St Patricks Graveyard (formerly the Auld Manse Graveyard).
STRATHAVEN - cemetary inscriptions.
MAPS, GAZETTEERS AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Ordnance Survey maps - free online maps covering the period 1860-1870.
Town Plan of Airdrie - surveyed 1858
Town Plan of Coatbridge - surveyed 1858
Town Plan of Glasgow - surveyed 1857-8
Town Plan of Glasgow - surveyed 1892-4
Town Plan of Glasgow (south east part) and Rutherglen - surveyed 1857-8
Town Plan of Hamilton - surveyed 1858
Town Plan of Lanark - surveyed 1858
Lanarkshire Parish map
Map of Glasgow - around 1560.
MILITARY
Caledonian Railway - names from WW1 war memorial at Glasgow Central Station.
Glasgow & South Western Railway - names from WW1 war memorial at Ayr Station
K13 Fairfield War Memorial located at Elder Park, Govan. 32 deaths occurred while the K13 submarine was undergoing trials on 29th January 1917.
Grave Location for Holders of the Victoria Cross in Glasgow
Grave Location for Holders of the Victoria Cross in Strathclyde
Lanarkshire Roll of Honour
LARKHALL & DALSERF - Some war memorials and cemetaries.
RUTHERGLEN - war memorial
Evening Times Roll of Honour - During the First World War, the Evening Times newspaper printed short
biographies of service personnel who were reported lost, missing or wounded. Most of these biographies were accompanied by a photograph of these long-gone heroes, often now the only one that exists. The Mitchell has produced indexes to these entries as a valuable addition to their Family History resources. There are 2 indexes: (1) The Evening Times Roll of Honour 1914 and 1915 which is now complete and (2) The Evening Times Roll of Honour 1916-1918 which will continue to be updated regularly. (1) ET Roll of Honour 1914 - 15 (PDF,975kb,
292pp) and (2) ET Roll of Honour 1916-1918 (PDF, 423kb,203pp).
NEWSPAPERS
Jewish Telegraph - Roots Directory / Regional Jewish newspaper for Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool & Glasgow with a genealogy notices section.
Evening Times - Glasgow's evening tabloid.
Daily Record - Glasgow's morning tabloid.
The Herald - morning broadsheet based in Glasgow.
Sunday Mail - Sunday tabloid.
Airdrie Echo
Airdrie & Coarbridge Advertiser
Clydebank Post
Hamilton Advertiser
East Kilbride News
North Lanarkshire News - council newspaper.
OTHER BITS AND PIECES
Poorhouses in Scotland - Barony (Glasgow), Cambusnethan Combination, Dalziel (Motherwell), Glasgow City, Govan Combination, Hamilton Combination, Lanark,
New Monkland, Old Monkland & Omoa Combination.
First Glasgow Directory 1787 - Reprint of Jones's Directory; or, Useful Pocket Companion For the Year 1787. With An Introduction, and Notes of Old Glasgow Celebrities.
Cess Book for the County of Lanarkshire 1724-1725 - Cess was a 17th century land tax.
GENUKI's Lanarkshire page.
Lanarkshire
Parish and Probate Records - includes baptisms/christenings, burials, marriages, tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, tax lists and wills.
Scots - Roots - has some Lanarkshire (Larkhall/Dalserf) and Fife transcriptions.
Lanarkshire - (part census) of 1841, 1851 & 1861.
and surrounding areas of Glasgow's south side.
1881 census - Residents of City Parish Poorhouse, 322 Parliamentary Rd, Glasgow.
UK FreeCEN Project - 1841 Free Census Project for Barony & Glasgow.
1851 census - (2% sample) includes Cadder, Carmichael, Douglas, East Kilbride, GLASGOW Barony, Calton, Gorbals, Inner High or St Mungoes, Outer High or St James, St George, St James, St Johns, St Marys, Misc Institutions, New Monklands, Old Monklands &, Shotts.
Scotland's ma Hame - local links for Motherwell, including
The Old Manse Cemetry, The Old Manse Graveyard, The Covenanters Graveyard, South Dalziel Parish Church Statistical Accounts
Parish of Dalziel 1798 & 1836.
IGI Batch Numbers for Lanarkshire
Burgh of Glasgow - includes extracts from the Burgh Accounts, 1573-1641 with index entries for over 2,000 entries for personal names and names of ships. Copy service available.
Ship building - Genealogy Name Index listing steamers, build dates, owners, masters, etc.
Australian immigrants from Lanarkshire - list of some people who married or died in the state of Victoria, who gave their birthplace as Lanark(shire).
Clydeside rent strikes 1915-16 - a gateway to images and information resources on the history of Red Clydeside and the Scottish Labour movement of the early 20th century.
Ship database - information about ships built on the River Clyde.
Despite being close to Glasgow, and on the north side of the River Clyde, Scotstoun, Jordanhill, Whiteinch and Yoker were actually part of Renfrewshire. The vast majority of this county was located on the south side of the river.
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