FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Updating Portugal Municipality Pages - Find Cemeteries

Purpose
Find Cemeteries on FindAGrave and BillionGraves and input information into the English Wiki.

Contact
Sylvie Pysnak

Task List
Task List

Instructions
1. Go to Task List. Choose a district and enter your name to sign up for the municipality. Remember to put the date when you have completed the task. 2. Click on the municipality. This will take you to the municipality's page.

3. In a separate window, open the website FindAGrave 4. From the Cemeteries in Portugal list, choose a district. 5. If you see the municipality listed on the page click on the link and follow through multiple pages until you get to the cemetery page for the municipality. 6. The cemetery page will look like this:

7. Go back to the municipality page. 8. Locate Cemeteries heading on the page. 9. Click edit source link next to the Cemeteries to edit the information. Do not delete the introductory sentence: ''Cemeteries did not become popular in Portugal until the late nineteenth century. Prior to this, individuals were buried their parish church, and their bones were later removed to an unmarked burial place. The following list may be helpful in twentieth-century research.'' 10. Delete the following templates on the page:

Name of Cemetery Website Address Phone number [mailto:email email address]

11. Add the following template for cemetery contact information underneath the existing ones, and fill in the contact information.

Name of Cemetery Address line 1 Address line 2 PORTUGAL Phone number: PHONE NUMBER Email: [mailto:EMAIL EMAIL] Website: [CEMETERY PAGE URL Website Name]

Copy the name of cemetery

Website: [CEMETERY PAGE URL FindAGrave] or
 * The website link should be formatted as follows:

Replace name of cemetery with the first line


 * Format the address as follows, using ALL CAPS for the country name

Phone: NUMBER
 * In phone number, copy the phone number as follows

Email: [mailto:email email]
 * In email, format the email as follows:
 * Make sure the email address is copied twice into the template, with a space between the two emails

22. Click Save page button.


 * A fast way to find the reference is the Find function, usually accessed by typing control-F, then typing in the municipality's name.

Example
The following link is the completed municipality page for The Municipality of Águeda