There are many archives and local-history libraries where evidence of your Strathclyde ancestors might survive. Modern Strathclyde was one of nine government regions created in 1975 and abolished in 1996. It covers six historic counties (Ayrshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, Glasgow, Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire) as well as parts of two more (Argyll and Stirlingshire).
Fortunately a great deal of research can be carried out remotely via the unrivalled collections at the government website ScotlandsPeople (), home to statutory registers back to 1855; church registers; census returns; valuation rolls; poor-relief and migration records; kirk-session and other
