The family history centre in Bellshill helps people who want to trace their ancestry, discover their roots and create family trees
Tracing Your Family History
The Centre has five workstations for use by the public for family history research.
If you want to do your own research, you can book a place by telephoning 01698 346780.
You can
- access Scotland’s People website
- use ‘Roots Magic’ software to create family trees
- scan in your family documents and photographs
- print Scotland’s people website images
- save your documents to a memory stick
- purchase preprinted family tree posters and/or children’s tree activity posters
We can
- provide information about your family through research of records held on DI GROS (Digital Imaging of General Register Office for Scotland) events.
- access
- statutory records of Scottish births, deaths and marriages from 1855
- divorce records from May 1984
- old Parish records from 1538 to 1854 including
- births and baptisms
- banns and marriages
- deaths and burial
- use our expertise to produce your family tree
- scan copies of family documents and photographs you provide
- collate the findings
- produce your family history book in a spiral bound format which can be easily extended
Charges
| Available options – subject to additional charges | |
| use of ‘Roots Magic’ software and scanner | £5 |
| Memory stick 1GB | £5 |
| assisted searches – for one particular event: experienced registration staff will search for one event over a continuous five year period |
£5 |
| general search – per hour experienced registration staff will search indexes from 1855 to present |
£15 |
| paper copies of DI GROS images – per A4 print | £1 |
| paper copies of Scotland’s People website images – per A4 print | £1 |
| colour prints – per A4 | £1 |
| preprinted children’s family tree activity poster | £5 |
| preprinted family tree poster | £7 |
| Family history research undertaken for you by Registration staff – per hour | £20 |
Service Standards Pledge
What can you expect from us?
We will:
- explain clearly the services we offer
- provide specialist advice on how to trace your ancestors in Scotland
- access statutory records from 1855 to current date
- work to agreed timescales in respect of requests received by post, email or website
- clearly state our fees
- listen when you tell us about problems and quickly address issues under our control
- invite our customers and employees to comment on our service and offer their suggestions for improvement
- accept payment by cash, debit or credit card.