User:Karenmunger/Sandbox histories online

Online Histories project for Karen Munger:
Purpose: Find online county histories, based on titles found in the FamilySearch Catalog.

1st part: instructions were done by Joy on how to get a title to check and where to check on the Internet.

This page of instructions tells how to enter the citation for an online history on the county page on the Wiki. (Arkansas area is call "Local Histories" In other states, it is probably just called "History." (However, some have put "History" at the very beginning of a county page, but that area is not about records, it is about neighboring counties, county formation, etc.)

Citation Format
See Citations (Evidence Style) for more detail

Citation:
 * 1) Enter an asterisk (*) which creates a bullet in the wiki
 * 2) last, first name of author, followed by a period.
 * 3) Italics (2 apostrophes), then name of publication, then end italics (2 more apostrophes), followed by a period.
 * 4) Publication info:  Place, followed by a colon:  Publisher, followed by a comma, and year of publication, followed by a period.
 * 5) Online editions: Enter 2 asterisks (**) which creates and indented bullet

Example:
 * Halli Burton, W. H. A topographical description and history of Arkansas County, Arkansas from 1541 to 1875. unknown: unknown, 1903.
 * Online at Hathi Trust Digital Library (Free); and at Ancestry.com ($/Free )

If online at more than 1 site:
 * Simply put a semi-colon after the first site,
 * Add the word   "and at "
 * Then the next site.

Site Format

 * 1) external link beginning   [
 * 2) paste URL
 * 3) space then name of site (not the url - may be the base of the URL)
 * 4) external link ending    ]
 * 5) cost    ($)     or    (Free)

Ancestry.com format

 * 1) external link beginning: [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=
 * 2) ancestry.com item #  26264 in this case
 * 3) space and site ID    at Ancestry.com
 * 4) external link ending:   ]
 * 5) space then ($/Free )


 * Example of what it looks like in WikiText:
 * Online at Ancestry.com ($/Free )


 * Example of what it looks like on the Wiki:
 * Online at Ancestry.com ($/Free )