Way, way back in the Internet Dark Ages, we are talking about the mid-1990s here,
the tremendously popular genealogy newsgroup soc.genealogy.roots and its associated mailing
list ROOTS-L was a major medium of
communication between genealogists. In June of 1995 some of the members of that
group succeeded in forming a new sub-group for those interested in British and Irish
genealogy, called soc.genealogy.uk+ireland, the associated mailing list was GENUKI-L. Not
too surprisingly, this group found themselves in a rathy un-easy alliance, and the
Irish agitated for their own group - so GENUKI-L ceased to exist in July 1997 when two
groups were formed, soc.genealogy.britain and soc.genealogy.ireland.
Rootsweb has the archives for ROOTS-L and BRITAIN-L and IRELAND-L, but nowhere have
I found the short-lived GENUKI-L. There is even a GENUKI website, but they don't seem
to have the archived messages.
Packrat that I am, I saved all the GENUKI-L messages I received back in the mid-1990s,
but unfortunately most of those were lost to various computer crashes over the years. I
do still have some 4,397 messages from a period of just over three months. These are most of the
messages from late June 1995 to the first of October that year. They include the original
message numbers: #369 (27 Jun 1995) to msg #4993 (1 Oct 1995). Naturally, given the focus
of the group, many of these messages refer to British families rather than Irish, but I'm
sure they will still be a value to many of our members. Of course if any other
packrats out there have more of these messages, we would be happy to get copies.
In the five files that make up the complete index to these messages, you will find
the titles from each message listed, with our usual link to allow you to order the page
(or in this case message). The five files are:
You may use the search function of your browser to look for particular names here,
or for a complete search, these pages are included in our TextSearch
service.
Note: A few of these messages are essentially worthless, such as 'I am out
of the office' autoresponses. If you encounter such a message, Notify
Us so we can remove it and we will give you any other message from this section free.
UK and Ireland Newsgroup Messages, Part 1
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