WHAT'S ON GENUKI?

©2008 by Donald R. Snow

• Welcome and Introduction to Class
• GENUKI -- What It Is and Isn't
• How GENUKI Is Organized
• Some Particularly Helpful Pages on GENUKI
• Assignment

• Instructors are Elder and Sister Donald R. and Diane M. Snow of the England London Mission, Hyde Park Family History Centre   (snowd@math.byu.edu , dms34@juno.com)
• These notes with active Internet links are posted on the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group website http://uvtagg.org under Class Outlines , Don's Listings , and are linked on the Hyde Park Family History Centre website  http://www.hydeparkfhc.org under Events.   Many other class notes for family history are linked on both sites also.
• This class is to learn about the GENUKI (GEnealogy of the UK and Ireland) website www.genuki.org.uk .

• GENUKI is a website with articles and links to helps and databases about doing genealogy in the UK and Ireland
  • UK countries are England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland (part is not really UK), Channel Islands, and Isle of Man
  • GENUKI has many links for entire UK and for each country
• GENUKI is NOT a collection of genealogies of people from the UK or anywhere else
• Contains a good inroduction to doing genealogy from anywhere -- Newbies Guide to Genealogy and Family History -- by Roy Stockdill

• Content and Search - see overall organization on  http://www.genuki.org.uk/contents/
• For information on how the data is organized using the Family History Library categories, see  http://www.genuki.org.uk/org/user.html
• Guidance for First Time Users -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/org/index.html
• From the Home page you can click on the large box "Enter this large collection..." or else click on the link in the upper left hand corner
• Can then get to each country page by clicking on the map or else on the country words by the map 
• The links below will take you directly to the country pages.
• England -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/  
• Wales -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/  
• Scotland -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/ 
• Ireland -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/irl/ 
• Channel Islands -- http://genuki.weald.org.uk/CHI/  
• Isle of Man -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/iom/
• For information related to all of the British Isles see list of topics and links at bottom of the map page -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/#common  

• GENUKI Search Engine -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/search/index.html  -- searches GENUKI, The National Archives, Soc of Genealogists, and Surname Interest Lists  
• Church Database -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/churchdb/search.html -- database of congregations (churches, parishes, synagogues, etc.) and information about them, their locations, neighboring congregations, years that the records cover
  • See Barrow-in-Furness for example of their ultimate goal
  • Click on the Abbey Rd Latter-day Saints link near the botom of the list and note the picture of the LDS Chapel there.)
• Information on Church Records of Various Denominations -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/ChurchRecords.html 
• Map of counties of England, Wales, and Scotland before 1974 -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Britain.html 
• Chapman Codes for counties in UK and Ireland -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Regions/Codes.html 
• Article: A-Z of British Genealogical Research, by Dr. Ashton Emery -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/EmeryPaper.html  
• Detailed information on the UK Censuses -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/census.html 
• UK Royalty - Kings and Queens of England and Scotland -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/royalty/index.html#list 
• Example of old map on GENUKI -- http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/cgi-bin/makemap.pl?plain=0&m=DBY&x=14&y=19 
  • For lots of maps of London, for example, search for "maps London" (without the quotes) in GENUKI's Search Engine -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/search/index.html 
• Latin words in church records -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/LatinNotes.html 
• Wills and Probates in the UK -- http://www.sierratel.com/colinf/genuki/cav/Probate.html 
• Information about GRO Registration Districts for Civil Registration -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/civreg/GROIndexes.html 
• Frequently asked questions (basic and important questions about UK research) -- http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/faq.html 
• Researching UK genealogy from abroad (helpful tips about resources, converting money, using the telephone, etc.) -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/ab/ 
• GENEVA - Upcoming GENealogical Events and Activities -- http://geneva.weald.org.uk/ -- (We hope to list Hyde Park Tues-Thurs talks there, too.)
• Genealogy email lists and news groups -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/wg/ 
• Information on the GENUKI server when it is on and offline -- http://www.ofhs.org.uk/genuki.info/ 

1. Find the day the 1891 UK Census was taken.
2. Find the Chapman code for County Monaghan, Ireland.
3. From the Channel Islands page, what diocese in the UK are the churches in the Channel Islands attached to?