FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject England City Pages

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Purpose
To update England City pages and add additional information to these pages.

Contact
Nathan

Task List
Task List

Instructions

 * Example of a completed England City Page: Bath, Somerset

Go to the Task List and sign out an England city to work on.

'''NOTE: We have added "save the page" after the end of a step to help remind you to periodically save the page. This will help keep from losing any work from a wiki timeout. You may save the page as you often as you would like.'''

Step 1 - Make General Changes
1. Change headings that are in all caps to normal. 2. Fix Breadcrumb. Example of correct code:
 * England [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] Somerset [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] Bath

3. Remove old sidebar 4. Make sure there is a SEO paragraph on the page. Use the following wikitext 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.

5. Under the SEO paragraph (starts with “Guide to…”), put the image code and change it to mirror this example:
 * [[Image:Bath royal Crescent.jpg|right|350px]]

6. Add right below this image the wikitext code:

7. Move content in “Location” to just below and take out “Location” heading and change it to “Description.”  If the information is from Wikipedia, we need to add a reference. To do so, adapt the following reference changing "Argentina" and the date, 23 March 2016 and put it directly after the last word in the paragraph:

8. Put the coat of arms template between the heading, Description and the paragraph. See the example of the Bath page. This will make it show up to the right. 9. Save the page and go to Step 2 below.

Step 2 - Put in the following headings
The following are the headings that should now be on the city pages:
 * History
 * Resources
 * Cemeteries (Civil)
 * Church Records
 * Parishes
 * Nonconformists
 * Civil Registration
 * Local Histories
 * Maps and Gazetteers
 * Newspapers
 * Occupations
 * Societies
 * Archives
 * Websites
 * References

Use the following instructions to fill in each heading listed above.

1. Make "History" a heading 2, then do the following:
 * a. If the information found under history is from Wikipedia, it needs a reference added.If you got the information from Wikipedia, we need to add a reference. To do so, adapt the following reference changing "Argentina" and the date, 23 March 2016 and put it directly after the last word in the paragraph:
 * b. Save the page
 * b. Save the page

2. Make "Resources" a heading 2. Nothing needs to be added to this heading.

3. Make "Cemeteries (Civil)" as a heading, then do the following:
 * a. Civil cemeteries are cemeteries that are not related to a parish church, so we only want to list the civil cemeteries on the page.
 * b. Copy and paste the following wikitext under this heading and change the word Bath to the correct word:
 * Below are websites that may contain cemetery records for non-parish churches in Bath:
 * *Deceased Online
 * *Find A Grave
 * c. Save the page

4. Make a "Church Records" heading 3, then do the following:
 * a. Make an additional heading to go under Church Records, called "Parishes" and make it a heading 4.
 * i. Go to the county’s parish list in the wiki. For example, Bath is in Somerset, so type in the wiki Somerset parishes.  It would page this page
 * ii. Find the entries on the Somerset Parishes wiki page 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 make a bullet list each of these parishes and add a link to the Parish wiki page
 * iv. Save the page
 * b. Make a "Nonconformists" heading 4.
 * i. List the nonconformist religions found on the FamilySearch map for England. You can find this list by doing the following:
 * 1. Go to: www.maps.familysearch.org
 * 2. Type in the city
 * 3. For each parish in Bath click on the link (there is blue bulb beside each parish)
 * 4. On the Info tab, you will see a list of the denominations of non-conformist religions (everything but Anglican church)
 * 5. Copy the list and add them in a bullet list to the city page (see example below)
 * ii. Next add a link to the Genealogist, a website that lists church records of non-conformist religions by adding the following wikitext:
 * *The Genealogist - $, index to non-conformist church records (does not include Anglican Church)
 * c. Put any written content found under the old heading “Religion” and put it under the the correct headings above (either Parishes or Nonconformists). If you got the information from Wikipedia, we need to add a reference. To do so, adapt the following reference changing "Argentina" and the date, 23 March 2016 and put it directly after the last word in the paragraph:
 * d. Save the page
 * d. Save the page

5. Make a “Civil Registration” heading 3, then do the following:
 * a. ADD the following paragraph under the heading, Civil Registration:
 * 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.
 * b. Find the link the local civil registration office (try googling the name of the town and civil registration online) and add it to the page. See the example below.

Example of civil registration websites for Bath:
 * Bath BMD
 * FreeBMD
 * c. Save the page

6. Make a "Local Histories" heading 3, then do the following:
 * a. Here there will be bullet list of the local histories we can find online.
 * b. Once you find a book that is online, put the books in alphabetical order with a bullet before each entry. You can make the title of the book a clickable link.  An example of an entry is:
 * Example:
 * c. You can locate books online, by using the following websites and using a keyword search using "[NAME OF CITY] History":
 * www.hathitrust.org
 * Internet Archive
 * Google Books - be careful to only list complete books online
 * FamilySearch Catalog - do a locality search for the town/city. Only list books that state they are online (red link in the catalog).

2. Make "Archives" as a heading 3, then do the following:
 * a. Move any archives information found under Genealogy and Family History to the new Archives heading.
 * b. List out the name and contact info of the Archives including the website link
 * c. List any additional information about what kind of collections they might have at the Archives
 * d. Use this page as an example: Bath
 * e. Save the page

6. Make a "Genealogy" heading 3, then do the following:
 * a. Move database links currently found under Genealogy and Family History and put it under this new heading
 * b. Save the page

8. Make a "Maps" heading 3, then do the following:
 * a. Paste this wikitext:
 * 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.
 * b. Go to Ancestry’s database, Great Britain, Atlas and Index of Parish Registers and do the following:
 * i. Type in the keyword, the name of the city
 * ii. Click on the link that says the city name.
 * iii. Go to the image by clicking on “view”
 * iv. Copy the URL
 * v. Return to the link you added under the heading and replace the URL part with the new URL you just found.
 * c. Save the page

9. Make an "Occupations" heading 3, then do the following:
 * a. Move content in the Industry heading and put it under Occupations. If the information is from Wikipedia, it needs a reference added. To do so, adapt the following reference changing "Argentina" and the date, 23 March 2016 and put it directly after the last word in the paragraph:
 * b. Save the page
 * b. Save the page

10. Make a "Societies" heading 3, then do the following:
 * a. Move any society information found under “Genealogy and Family History” heading and put it under the Societies heading.
 * b. List out the name and contact info of the Society including the website link
 * c. List any additional information about what kind of collections they might have for the society.
 * d. Create a References heading
 * e. Add the following wikitext at the very bottom of the page and just before the Category:
 * f. Save the page
 * f. Save the page

11. Add a category.
 * a. We will be putting these cities in the County category. You can adapt the following wikitext:
 * b. Save the page
 * b. Save the page

12. If there are any headings still on the page not covered in the instructions, put the heading in alphabetical order on the page. 13. Once you have completed the page update, return to the Task List page and put the date you completed the task. You can then sign up for another city to update.