Donkipedia
Donkipedia
Welcome to Donkipedia
Donkipedia is a Guernsey Society initiative to collect and share knowledge about Guernsey's People, Places & Heritage. Guernsey is the second largest of the Channel Islands.
This is a wiki. This means that there is some useful content here, but it is work in progress, it is not yet complete. It also means that anyone can contribute to it.
If you want to browse around, we hope that you find it interesting and useful.
It uses the same underlying technology as Wikipedia, which means that anyone can contribute. It is not, however, an attempt to duplicate Wikipedia - but to contain a lot of useful more detailed information for people interested in the island, which would not necessarily be relevant to Wikipedia.
Guernsey People
Guernsey Heritage
- Guernsey Chronology - a timeline of significant events in island history
- Guernsey Culture
- Guernsey Folklore
Guernsey Places
- Bailiwick of Guernsey - including the surrounding islands of Alderney, Sark, Herm and Jethou
- Old Guernsey Houses
- Guernsey roads
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A timeline of Guernsey history
This Guernsey Chronology outlines some of the main events in Guernsey's history. We are very grateful to Dr Darryl Ogier of the Island Archives for his major contribution to getting this started.
Selected Articles
A selection of articles which you may find particularly interesting
- La Forge du Carrefour
- Paul Le Mesurier, the first Guernseyman to be Lord Mayor of London
- Thomas De La Rue, printer
- Major General Isaac Brock
- Roy Dotrice, actor
- Huguenot refugees
- Torode family in Australia
- St Peter Port, Guernsey, the island's capital
- Alderney and Sark, profiles of the Bailiwick's other main islands
CI Bibliography
Books and articles about the Channel Islands in print and on the Web
Contribute to Donkipedia
You can help Donkipedia grow
Everybody can contribute to Donkipedia 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 Donkipedia and also look at information on how to go about adding your family tree to those already on the site. Site policies.
Jerripedia
Visit our sister site, Jerripedia dedicated to the history of the island of Jersey. You will find similar information to that contained in Donkipedia and many of the family pages and other information are common to both sites to make life simpler for those researching their family trees in both islands.
