Email

Only selected email addresses are displayed on this site, therefore please use the contact form [1] facility to send us a message.

Telephone

Enquiries

0131 535 1314 (General Register House switchboard)

0131 334 0380 (New Register House, Ladywell House and Cairnsmore House switchboard)

0131 314 4411 (Extract Ordering Service: for birth, death and marriage certificates)

0131 314 4300 from 9:00 to 12:00 Monday to Friday  (ScotlandsPeople Centre: for booking seats in the search rooms, group evening visits, family history events, seminar facility bookings and purchasing current publications available in our shop [2]).

The switchboards are open:

• 09:00 to 17:00 Monday to Thursday, and
• 09:00 to 16:30 on Friday.

The international code for the UK is 44, then drop the first 0 e.g. +44 131 334 0380.

Write to Us

HM General Register House
2 Princes Street
Edinburgh
EH1 3YY

Public Holidays

We are closed on certain public holidays, which in the period to the end of January 2018 are as follows:

Media Contact

Journalists can contact the NRS Communications Team: 0131 535 1306/0131 535 1311. For out of hours contacts please see the News Desk Contacts [3] page on the Scottish Government website. Sorry, we are unable to assist members of the public on these numbers, please use the contact details above.