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Task
Wiki Project New York Tasks - Town Records - Town/Cities Guide

Description
To add some instructions to each town and city page in the wiki to facilitate finding transcribed church and cemetery records and the collections or repositories where they are found.

Instructions
1. Go to the wiki and type in Albany County, New York and go to that page. Click on the Places in the Table of Contents. This will take you to the "Municipalities and communities" chart. On each county, you will put the "Town Records" section below onto each City and Town listed in the chart for each county in New York.

2. Go to the first City listed (or Town if there are no cities), and copy and paste this section onto that page in wiki text under the City/Town Historian section CHANGING the letter found after the word guide ( the whole link says http://www.americanancestors.org/new-york-town-guide-b/ And the letter b after the word guide is the letter that needs to be changed.) to the first letter of the city or town page you are inserting this into:

Town Records
To locate additional published and transcribed records for check:


 * Gordon L. Remington, New York Towns, Villages, and Cities: A Guide to Genealogical Sources (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002). American Ancestors online edition; ; . Alphabetical list including date founded, if a town history exists, church and cemetery sources, and if a Civil War register (TCR) exists. The codes used under Church and Cemetery are defined in the link above the listing of towns, cities and villages.

Town Records
To locate additional published and transcribed records for check:


 * Gordon L. Remington, New York Towns, Villages, and Cities: A Guide to Genealogical Sources (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002). American Ancestors online edition; ; . Alphabetical list including date founded, if a town history exists, church and cemetery sources, and if a Civil War register (TCR) exists. The codes used under Church and Cemetery are defined in the link above the listing of towns, cities and villages.