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- New Irish Pages for GENUKI
The following announcement was sent this past week:
This is to announce that the UK and Ireland Genealogical Service
(GENUKI) has an entirely new set of Ireland pages. These are to
be found at:
http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/irl/
The pages replace the link that GENUKI had to IRLGEN. This was a
temporary expedient that has served since GENUKI was created in
early 1995. The new pages at last conform to GENUKI's formatting
and structuring conventions, and so are designed to facilitate
continuing expansion, both in content and in the number of
volunteers involved in their development, while remaining
coherent. (GENUKI was originally set up by just a few people -
now there are over a hundred people involved.)
Quoting the acknowledgments at the foot of the new Ireland page:
"the creation of these pages was greatly aided by the work that
had already been done by many individuals and organisations,
including John Grenham, Paddy Waldron, IrishGenWeb, Fianna, and
IGSI - to name but a few."
However, if we are to develop our Ireland coverage to match what
we have already achieved for many parts of England, Scotland and
Wales - for example, in about twenty counties we now provide a
separate information page for each and every parish - then there
is much more to be done. We therefore are very keen to hear from
potential volunteers - what is involved is described in the
page:
http://www.genuki.org.uk/org/helpus.html
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