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Information about Scotland's People

Welcome to the website of the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS). We are part of the devolved Scottish Administration. We are responsible for the registration of births, marriages, civil partnerships, deaths, divorces, and adoptions. We run the Census and we use Census and other data to publish information about population and households. We are the main source of family history records. We hope that our website will help you find what you want to know about Scotland’s people.

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Registration ›

How to register a birth, death or civil partnership, get married in Scotland, get information on adoption and more ...

Family Records ›

Research your family history. Book a place at ScotlandsPeople Centre, or search online at ScotlandsPeople. Order a birth, death or marriage certificate.

Statistics ›

Find the size, location and characteristics of Scotland's population and how this changes. Learn how population sources can aid medical research...

Census ›

Explore and understand past censuses and how we are preparing for the next one in 2011.

Did you know?

Scottish birth, marriage, civil partnership and death certificates can be ordered by telephone on +44 (0) 131 314 4411

What's new?

View recent additions to the GROS website...

Future publications

Find out which publications we plan to release in the future...

Other Related Websites

Scotland's Census ›Information on 2009 census rehearsal and 2011 census...

SCROL ›Use our SCROL (Scotland's Census Results OnLine) website to explore and understand the full potential of Census output...

ScotlandsPeople ›The online source of civil registration, open census records, old parish registers and wills for Scotland...