GENUKI

GENUKI is a genealogy web portal, run as a charitable trust. Its aim is "to serve as a "virtual reference library" of genealogical information that is of particular relevance to the UK & Ireland". It provides access to a large collection of information, with the emphasis on primary sources, or means to access them, rather than on existing genealogical research.

The name derives from "Genealogy of the United Kingdom and Ireland, although its coverage is wider, including the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

Structure

The website has a well defined structure at four levels.

• The first level is information that is common to all "the United Kingdom and Ireland";
• The next level has information for each of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man;
• The third level has information on each county of the British Isles and each island of the Channel Islands;
• The fourth level has information on each town or parish.

The structure is shown diagrammatically in the "Contents and Site Map".

Subject headings

At each level, some of the subject headings from the list prepared by the Family History Library run by the American Mormons are used. The full list is:

Almanacs Archives and Libraries Bibliography Biography Business and Commerce Records Cemeteries Censuses Chronology Church Directories Church History Church Records Civil Registration Colonization Correctional Institutions Court Records Description and Travel Directories

Dwellings Emigration and Immigration Encyclopedias Ethnology Folklore Gazetteers Genealogy Guardianship Handwriting Heraldry Historical Geography History Inventories Jewish History Jewish Records Land and Property Languages

Law and Legislation Manors Maps Medical Records Merchant Marine Migration, Internal Military History Military Records Minorities Names, Geographical Names, Personal Naturalisation and Citizenship Newspapers Nobility Obituaries Occupations Officials and Employees Orphans and Orphanages

Pensions Periodicals Politics and Government Poorhouses, Poor Law etc. Population Postal and Shipping Guides Probate Records Public Records Religion and Religious Life Schools Social Life and Customs Societies Statistics Taxation Town Records Visitations, Heraldic Voting Registers Yearbooks

Contents

In some instances GENUKI pages include actual information, but more often they provide links to sources of information, either as online links or by providing information about hard copy publications or repositories. For many locations, a description is quoted from an old (and therefore out-of-copyright) gazetteer. As GENUKI is maintained solely by volunteers, the level of detail varies in different parts of the site. Material on the GENUKI website is copyright, and also protected by British database right, and it must only be used for personal research and not copied onto other websites.

Outside links

• GENUKI website
• GENUKI at thegoodwebguide.co.uk website