FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Adding County Court Clerk Information to Georgia Pages

Current Projects page Adding County Court Clerk Information to Georgia Pages

Purpose:
Add contact information for all of the record keeping official's offices in Georgia.

Contact
Jane Colmenares

Task Page
Task Page

Instructions
1. Go to the Task Page and pick a state and sign out a group of counties.

2. Go to the Georgia page and use the list of county pages provided there. Using that list, you will place the information below on each of the county pages on your list.

3. In each case, you will be adding the contact inforamtion for two officials for each county: Superior Court Clerk and the Probate Court. Appling County has been completed as an example for you to follow.

Add Superior Court Clerk Information
4. Find the Superior Court Clerk address here. Click on the County List option to give you a full listing of information by county.



Once you pull up the county list, highlight the name of the county you want and click on the round blue go button on the buttom right. This will pull up the information for the county.



We only want the contact information. We do not want the name of the clerk as this will change over time.

5. Go to the county page and go to the heading County Courthouse near the top of the page. Click on the edit box.



6. You will see a paragraph that says something similar to ...

"Records begin 1879, some 1859; Probate Court has birth, marriage, death and burial records. Clerk of Superior Court has divorce, probate and court records[1]"

Directly under this paragraph enter the information for the Clerk of Superior Court's office for that county and the Probate Court office for that county. Enter it as shown on the example below.



7. If there is an email address listed, do not put it in if the address includes the name of the clerk. If it is a general email address, for the clerk's office, you can add it. Make the e-mail address into a clickable link by typing the e-mail address on the page right after the phone number. Highlight the e-mail address and click on the world with a link button on the Wiki format bar. In the field that opens up, type, "mailto:" and then paste the e-mail address immediately after it. Then click on, ok. The e-mail address should now be a link.

8. If there is a website listed, click on it to make sure it works. If it does, copy the URL link including the "http://". Then go back to the wiki and add the URL link directly below the telephone and e-mail address (if there is one) by typing, Website on the wiki page. Highlight the word, Website and go to the World with a link button on the Wiki format bar. Paste the URL link in the field and click, ok. It should now be a link.

Add Probate Court Clerk Information
9.  You will then need to enter the information for the Probate Court. You will find that information here. Once you pull up the page, use the drop down menu on the right side of the page in the GRAY SHADED AREA to find the county you are working on.

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Again, we do not use the name, only the contact information as shown in the example above. If there is an appropriate general email address (not containing the individual's name in the email address) or a website link listed, added it to the page using the instructions in number 7 and 8 above.

Save the Page
10. Once you have entered the two addresses, drop down to the Edit Summary Box and enter "added clerk information" in the box and save your work.

11.  After you have saved your work, take a look at the County Courthouse section on the wiki page and be sure the page looks like you would expect it to. If the information that you entered looks ok, you are ready to move on to your next county.