Jerripedia

• Family research
• History
• Places of historical interest

• The life and culture of a special island
• Folklore
• Famous islanders
• Immigration
• Emigration
• Glossary of terms
• Art and artists
• German Occupation
• Bibliography
• Farming and tourism
  

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.

Contact us

To contact the Jerripedia administration for any reason please send an email to mike.bisson@orange.fr.

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.

Copyright

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.

Tracing your ancestors in Jersey

Jerripedia is dedicated to helping those whose ancestors come from 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 250 Jersey families are profiled, with more than 600 associated family trees, baptism listings and other valuable resources.

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, articles on common baptismal names, some Fascinating ancestries of island families tracing island lineages back to famous figures of the past, an index of over 30,000 Victorian baptisms in St Helier, a growing collection of baptism and marriage records from other parishes, and much, much more ...

• Family history section main index
• Histories and records of over 250 families
• A convenient index of over 600 trees
• Direct access to baptisms and other family records
  

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 on-line collection of images of Jersey, and it is growing daily. Collectors around the world have given Jerripedia editors access to their collections and they are steadily being processed for inclusion in the site. Follow the links below to our Picture menu page or one of our popular individual picture pages.

The editors' choice of an iconic picture of Jersey

• Picture menu page
• A gallery of all the pictures on the site
• A gallery sorted by categories, not always up-to-date
• Some special views of the island, past and present
• Some previously unpublished Occupation pictures

A selection of some of the most interesting articles in Jerripedia

• 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
• A French artist’s album of Jersey in Victorian times