"Tracing Your Glasgow Ancestors is a volume in the series of city ancestral guides published by Pen & Sword for readers and researchers who want to find out about life in Glasgow in the past and to know where the key sources for its history can be found. In vivid detail it describes the rise of Glasgow through tobacco, shipping, manufacturing and trade from a minor cathedral town to the cosmopolitan centre of the present day. Ian Maxwells book focuses...

This guide to records of Scottish ancestry puts family history research into a wide historical perspective. It offers detailed social history on how our ancestors lived and gives information on all the records kept by major archives and museums. It also features less well-known local museums and archives.