Tracing your Glasgow Ancestors: A Guide for Family and Local Historians

Pen & Sword have for some years been issuing a series of specialised guides to family history, each adapted to research either on a particular geographical area or a particular occupation. This latest addition covers Glasgow, which in the days of its industrial greatness used to describe itself as “The second city of the Empire”; now that industrial greatness and empire are both in the past, they have left numerous records behind them.

The book is stated to be suitable both for beginners and for more experienced genealogical researchers looking for a wider variety of resources. Naturally, it emphasises the...