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WikiProject Pennsylvania Progress Chart  Pennsylvania Wiki Project Task - Church Records: UsGenWeb

Task
Wiki Project Pennsylvania Tasks - Church Records: USGenWeb Task

Description
Use USGenWeb to locate pertinent church record databases on the county website.

Instructions
1. Search USGenWeb.org for the county you are working on.

2. Locate the church section of the page.

3. If there are no church databases on the county page, you are finished with this task. If there are databases, go to the next step.

4. For each church database found, review the databases listed in this county, and analyze them to see if they are worthwhile (have individuals' names and is complete for the county). If it is not worthwhile, do not include it. The decision is up to you.

5. If you think the database is worthwhile, determine which denomination(s) the databases cover. You will add the database to the appropriate denomination headings already listed. If the denomination is not listed, please add it as a heading 5 in alphabetical order with the other denominations. Leave out the word "Church" for each denomination.

6. Now list each applicable database from Ancestry under the correct denomination heading and after any written description about the denomination (you do not need to add a description) in chronological order and then alphabetical order in the following manner:


 * 6a. WITHOUT DATES IN TITLE
 * :* Southampton Old School Baptist Church at USGenWeb - index only; original name may have been Pennypack(Pennepack) Church


 * 6b. WITH DATES IN TITLE
 * :*1803-1913 – St John The Baptist Roman Catholic Church at USGenWeb - index only; located in Haycock Township

7. When adding a database with dates in the title, repeat the dates just after the bullet in bold. Make sure to use the N–dash between the dates and anytime it is used in wiki text. The N–dash is made by holding the alt key and typing 0150. If the dates are not in the title but can be determined, also add them in this manner.

8. After each database listed, add any helpful info about the database after the title by putting a dash in the entry such as, "not complete" or "index only" or "index and images". See examples above.

9. If an index covers more than one church for the county, put the database under the heading, "County-wide Datbases - Multi-denominational" you added in Part A. Put it in chronological and alphabetical order among the other databases.

10. We are not listing any church histories at this time. Only add church databases that have individuals' names.

Baptist

 * Southampton Old School Baptist Church at USGenWeb - index only; original name may have been Pennypack(Pennepack) Church

Roman Catholic

 * 1803-1913 – St John The Baptist Roman Catholic Church at USGenWeb - index only; located in Haycock Township