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Information about Scotland's People

From 1 April 2011, the General Register Office for Scotland merged with the National Archives of Scotland to become the National Records of Scotland (NRS). This website will remain active until it is replaced in due course by a new website for NRS.

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.

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.

Royal Anniversary Messages

Did you know?

Between 2005 and 2010, the number of households containing just one adult has increased by five per cent and the number of two adult households also increased by eight per cent.

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 ›Results from the 2011 Census now available...

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...