User:Evancol/Sandbox/quickdates

Purpose
To complete date charts and remove any conflicting information.

Contact
Jane Colmenares

Task List
Task List

Instructions
Go to the Task List and sign out a section of pages to work on.

Step One - Editing the Table
1. The quickdates box should have 7 columns


 * Birth
 * Marriage
 * Death
 * Census
 * Probate
 * Land
 * Court

Most tables will only contain 6, so you will first need to add a column to the table.

2. To add a column, in Rich Text Editor hover over the last column of the chart and right click. Select "Column" and then "Insert Column After." This should create a matching seventh column on your chart.

3. Add the missing title to the column you added and you are now ready to find the data to enter in the box.

Step Two - Finding the New Dates
1. Go to the Ancestry Redbook website. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and choose the state you are working on. Then go down to the right side of the page and click on "County Resources." This will bring up a page with a chart listing all the counties and the dates they began recording births, marriages, deaths, court, probate and land records. If you are needing to add census record dates, see below *.

2. Verify the dates on the page are the same ones we have in the quickdates box, and add any dates that are missing to the box.


 * for Census Records, go down the right side of the page and click on "Census Records for." This will bring up a page that gives you the dates of the earliest recorded census.   You will use the same date for every county.

Step Three - Removing Date Conflicts
1. After you have finished updating the chart, look under the Courthouse heading on the page. If there are record dates in this section, they may conflict with the ones in the box. We are going to delete these extra dates in an effort to standardize. We don't want to delete any information about who has the record collections though. See before and after views.

Before

After

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