Jerripedia

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• The life and culture of a special island
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• Glossary of terms
• Art and artists
• German Occupation
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Contact us

• To contact the Jerripedia administration for any reason please send an email to editorial@theislandwiki.org.
• To raise any technical issues please contact webmaster@theislandwiki.org.

Help Jerripedia grow

Everybody can contribute to Jerripedia and help this Channel Island history resource keep growing. You can add new pages, edit existing pages (with the exception of a few which are protected) and leave comments about content. Go to the Community Portal for general advice on how to become involved with Jerripedia and also look at information on how to go about adding your family tree to those already on the site. You might also find it useful to read about our Site policies before becoming a valued contributor.

• Why not join Friends of Jerripedia, a new group established to help determine the future direction of the site and to assist in the creation of new content? Just follow this link to find out more.

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All material added must be copyright free. If anyone has any concerns about the copyright of material on the site, please read our copyright notice to find out how to draw these concerns to an administrator's attention.

Visit our sister site, Donkipedia dedicated to the history of the islands of Guernsey, Alderney and Sark. You will find similar information to that contained in Jerripedia and many of the pages are common to both sites to make life simpler for those researching their families in both islands.

Jerripedia is dedicated to helping those whose ancestors lived in Jersey to trace their family's history. The Family research section contains the biggest collection of on-line records to assist family historians with their research. Over 280 Jersey families are profiled, with nearly 1,000 associated family trees, and now we have added the only comprehensive online index to church registers of baptisms, marriages and burials from the 15th to 19th centuries.

This new service - a major step forward for those researching their ancestry in Jersey - is in addition to the index of over 30,000 Victorian baptisms in St Helier which first appeared in 2010 and has been visted over 30,000 times since then. It has now been joined by a fully searchable database of all the available records and our efforts to have even more family records released will intensify during 2013.

You will find a guide to researching your family trees in Jersey (essential reading for newcomers to family history reseach), links to other genealogy sites, a guide to the derivation of Jersey surnames dating back to the Middle Ages, plus several other articles on surname usage, articles on common baptismal names, some fascinating ancestries of island families tracing island lineages back to famous figures of the past, and much, much more ...

• Family history section main index
• Histories and records of over 280 families
• A convenient index of over 1,000 trees
• Direct access to the enlarged collection of family records
  

The Pomme d'Or Hotel in the mid-19th century

Jerripedia is full of words - millions of them - but it also has thousands of pictures to paint a picture of the island of today and yesterday. This is by far the largest, easy to access, on-line collection of images of Jersey, and it is growing daily. Collectors around the world have given Jerripedia editors access to their images and they are steadily being processed for inclusion in the site.

Our new menu page giving access to all the site's best pictures

The editors' weekly choice of an iconic picture of Jersey

1947 Jersey Road Race

A selection of some of the most interesting articles in Jerripedia

• Discovery of Iron Age coin hoard worth millions
• Road racing in post-war Jersey
• Founder of New Jersey
• The French did not give up the Channel Islands easily
• Trace your family tree back to William the Conqueror and other famous people of the past
• Extracts from Jean Chevalier's 17th century diary
• Overseas Contingent, the Jerseymen who went to fight in the Great War
• Ship building Jersey was an important maritime centre in the 19th century
• A virtual tour of Jersey's historical coastline