WHAT'S ON GENUKI?
©2008 by Donald R. Snow
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This page was last updated
2008-01-28.
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WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION TO CLASS
GENUKI - WHAT IT IS AND ISN'T
- 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
HOW GENUKI IS ORGANIZED
SOME PARTICULARLY HELPFUL PAGES ON GENUKI
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GENUKI Search Engine -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/search/index.html
-- searches GENUKI, The National Archives, Soc
of Genealogists, and Surname Interest Lists
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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.)
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Information on Church Records of Various
Denominations -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/ChurchRecords.html
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Map of counties of England, Wales, and
Scotland before 1974 -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Britain.html
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Chapman Codes
for counties in UK and Ireland -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Regions/Codes.html
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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
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UK Royalty - Kings and Queens of England and
Scotland -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/royalty/index.html#list
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Example of old map on GENUKI -- http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/cgi-bin/makemap.pl?plain=0&m=DBY&x=14&y=19
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Latin words in church records -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/LatinNotes.html
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Wills and Probates in the UK -- http://www.sierratel.com/colinf/genuki/cav/Probate.html
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Information about
GRO Registration Districts for Civil
Registration -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/civreg/GROIndexes.html
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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/
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GENEVA - Upcoming GENealogical
Events and Activities -- http://geneva.weald.org.uk/ -- (We
hope to list Hyde Park Tues-Thurs talks there, too.)
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Genealogy email lists and news groups -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/wg/
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Information on
the GENUKI server when it is on and offline
-- http://www.ofhs.org.uk/genuki.info/
ASSIGNMENT
- Find the day the 1891 UK Census was taken.
- Find the Chapman code for County Monaghan, Ireland.
- From the Channel Islands page, what diocese in the UK are the churches in the Channel
Islands attached to?
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