GENUKI is a

genealogy Genealogy () is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kin ...

web portal A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails, online forums and search engines, together in a uniform way. Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displayin ...

, run as a charitable trust. It "provides a virtual reference library of genealogical information of particular relevance to the UK and Ireland". It gives access to a large collection of information, with the emphasis on

primary source In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source (also called an original source) is an Artifact (archaeology), artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was cre ...

s, or means to access them, rather than on existing genealogical research.

Name

The name derives from the phrase "Genealogy of the UK and

Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...

", although its coverage is wider than this. From the GENUKI website:

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 England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...

(see example)

Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...

Wales Wales ( ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the England–Wales border, east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic ...

, the Channel Islands and the

Isle of Man The Isle of Man ( , also ), or Mann ( ), is a self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland. As head of state, Charles III holds the title Lord of Mann and is represented by a Lieutenant Govern ...

. * The third level has information on each pre-1974

county A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...

of England and Wales, each of the pre-1975 counties of Scotland, each of the 32

counties of Ireland The counties of Ireland (Irish language, Irish: ) are historic administrative divisions of the island. They began as Normans in Ireland, Norman structures, and as the powers exercised by the Cambro-Norman barons and the Old English (Ireland), ...

and each island of the Channel Islands (e.g.

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Merseyside to the north-west, Greater Manchester to the north-east, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire to the south-east, and Shrop ...

County Kerry County Kerry () is a Counties of Ireland, county on the southwest coast of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, within the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. It is bordered by two other countie ...

and

Guernsey Guernsey ( ; Guernésiais: ''Guernési''; ) is the second-largest island in the Channel Islands, located west of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy. It is the largest island in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which includes five other inhabited isl ...

). * The fourth level has information on each

town A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...

(e.g.

Antrobus Antrobus may refer to: *Antrobus (surname) *Antrobus, Cheshire, a village in Cheshire, England *Antrobus baronets {{Disambiguation ...

). 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 in

Salt Lake City Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. It is the county seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in the state. The city is the core of the Salt Lake Ci ...

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

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 UK database right, and it must only be used for personal research and not copied onto other websites.

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://www.genuki.org.uk/
GENUKI at thegoodwebguide.co.uk website
British genealogy websites Historiography of the United Kingdom Historiography of Ireland Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom