FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject England City Pages

Purpose
Creating city pages in England listing specific genealogical content to do research in the city.

Contact
Jane Colmenares

Project Instructions
1. Name the article using the following example: Bath, Somerset Genealogy 2. Add a breadcrumb that includes: England, County and the city. The green arrow should be between each jurisdiction. An example can be found on Bath wiki page. 3. Add the following SEO paragraph changing the name of "Bath" to the correct city.


 * Guide to Bath history, family history, and genealogy parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

4. Add the following headings in wiki text: === List of Parishes === === Archives === === Cemeteries === (Civil) === Civil Registration === === Church Records – Non-Conformist Denominations === === History === === Maps === === Occupations === === Societies === 5. Under each heading do the following:
 * a. List of Parishes
 * i. Go to the county’s parish list in the wiki. For example, Bath is in Somerset, so type in the wiki Somerset parishes.
 * ii. Find the entries that start with the name of the city. For Bath there is:  Bath Abbey, Bath St. James, and Bath St. Michael
 * iii. Go back to the heading Parishes and list each of these parishes and add a link to the Parish wiki page
 * b. Archives
 * i. Google the name of the city and archives.
 * ii. If you find an archive in the city, list the name and contact info of the Archives
 * iii. Also, list the website link
 * iv. List any additional information about what kind of collections they might have at the Archives
 * v. Use instructions from: https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/FamilySearch_Wiki:WikiProject_International_Archives_and_Libraries_Pages
 * c. In the Cemeteries (Civil), heading, cemeteries that are not attacjed to a parish church are considered civil cemeteries. Add the following website links:
 * i. Deceased Online
 * ii. Find A Grave
 * d. Civil Registration
 * i. ADD the following in wikitext:
 * Civil registration is the recording of births, marriages and deaths in England and began in 1837. Civil registration records were recorded at the local registration office and the National registration offices.  If you cannot find the civil registration in one index, search the other index as they are different indexes.


 * ii. Find the link the local civil registration office (try googling the name of the town and civil registration online)
 * iii. Example of one in Bath:
 * [ http://www.bathbmd.org.uk/ Bath BMD]
 * FreeBMD

e. Church Records – non-Conformist


 * i. List the non-conformist religions found on the maps.familysearch.org map
 * 1. Type in the city
 * 2. For each parish in Bath click on the link (there is blue bulb beside each parish
 * 3. On the Info tab, you will see a list of the denominations of non-conformist religions (everything but Anglican church)
 * 4. Copy the list and add them in a bullet list to the city page
 * ii. Next add a link to the Genealogist, a website that lists church records of non-conformist religions
 * iii. Add the following: The Genealogist - $, index to non-conformist church records (does not include Anglican Church)
 * f. History
 * i. Use Wikipedia to create a short paragraph on the history of this city.
 * ii. Make a reference after creating the paragraph. Use the instructions found in citing references
 * g. Maps
 * i. Go to Ancestry’s database, Great Britain, Atlas and Index of Parish Registers: http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8830
 * ii. Type in the keyword, the name of the city
 * iii. Click on the link that says the city name.
 * iv. Go to the image by clicking on “view”
 * v. Copy the URL
 * vi. Return to the section that says map and replace the link in the following and add it to the heading:
 * Map of Bath – ‘’Great Britain, Atlas and Index of Parish Registers’’ on Ancestry.com (link to Ancestry); map originally from The Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers by Cecil R. Humphery Smith.
 * h. Societies
 * i. Google the name of the city and societies.
 * ii. If you find an society in the city, list the name and contact info of the society
 * iii. Also, list the website link
 * iv. If the society has a List any additional information about what kind of collections they might have at the Archives
 * v. Use instructions from: https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/FamilySearch_Wiki:WikiProject_Adding_Society_Information_to_U.S._County_Pages
 * 5. Images:
 * a. Images should be on the right and any pictures should be only 250/300 px