General Register Office for Scotland (GRO(S))

The General Register Office for Scotland - GRO(S) - is a Non-Ministerial Department, part of the Scottish Administration.

GRO(S) are responsible for information about Scotland’s people, principally:

• Overseeing the registration of births, marriages, deaths and other vital events;
• Providing key family history information to the public;
• Running the Census;
• Maintaining the NHS Central Register for use by the NHS and local authorities;
• Using Census and other data to provide statistics about the present and likely future population and households.