GENUKI Book by David Hawgood

This is a book about GENUKI, an information service on the Internet for United Kingdom and Ireland Genealogy. It shows what type of information is in GENUKI, and how to find it. Regard GENUKI as the first place to look for U.K. and Ireland genealogy. GENUKI contains a great deal of information in its own web pages, including some transcripts and indexes, and has thousands of links to other information on the Internet.

Contents

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Introduction	How to find information using GENUKI	Indexes and Transcripts	Places, Towns, Parishes	Sharing and Collaboration	Family History Societies

Each chapter is one web page.

1. Introduction

Links from the GENUKI home page

Places and Topics - the structure of the main material of GENUKI

Descriptions of Places

Societies

"Genealogy" and "Names, Personal" as topics

Using your Web browser

Email from the web page

Mailing lists and newsgroups

2. How to find information using GENUKI

Annotated lists of topics

Frequently Asked Questions - with answers!

Contents Lists - and why you shouldn't use them

Societies, surname and email lists for all counties

Finding places and putting them on maps

Searches within GENUKI

3. Indexes and Transcripts

Abstracts

Transcripts of name lists

Parish Register Transcripts

On-line search of database of names

Off-line search service

Published indexes of names

4. Places, Towns, Parishes

From county to parish

Information about records of a parish

Name list for one parish

Collected information for families in a parish

5. Sharing and Collaboration

Surname lists by county

More collaboration methods

Look-up exchange

Interests of members of Family History Societies

GENUKI Supporters' Club - free news and comment

You can help GENUKI to expand and keep up-to-date

6. Family History Societies

What Societies offer

Fairs and lectures - calendars of events

Society projects to index records

Help with your family history

Appendix. Structure of this Book Format and amendments

How to order the printed book (48 pages, retail price £2.80, US$7 by airmail)

Publishing and copyright information about this book

Page prepared by David Hawgood on 29 Mar 2000, amended 28 Nov 2002

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