User:Carlyannbagley/sandbox18

Project Leader
Carly Bagley

Examples

 * Angola Gazetteers
 * Malta Gazetteers

Purpose
To update/standardize the gazetteers pages for each country. You will use a lot of your best judgement to make these pages better. Some of these pages won't have much information. And some may have an incredible amount of information. And so we may have to modify the template in the future. Please reach out anytime you have questions or have difficulties knowing where to place information.

Task List
Task List

Instructions
- Check the FS catalog

1. Go to the Task List above and open the Google Spreadsheet. Select a tab for a geographic area. 2. You'll notice that each sheet has columns for Name, Country, and Maps. Here's a key for what everything means on this spreadsheet:
 * Purple Name column: List your name next to a country you are working on so you can organize who will work on which countries.
 * Blue Country column: This column lists the pages that you will update. You won't edit this column but you can click on each of the countries and it will take you to its FamilySearch Wiki home page.
 * Yellow and Orange Maps column: This column is where you will fill cells with green when you complete them. (You can also leave comments or notes in these cells if you need to organize yourself.)
 * Yellow cells represent countries with map pages that already have a page created with information on them.
 * Orange cells represent countries that don't have map pages. (If you look at the sidebar of these country pages, you'll see that Maps is a red link. These are the countries that have orange cells.)

3. Some of these map pages will have information that belongs in the Gazetteers section. When this is the case,

== Online Maps ==

Finding Gazetteer Content
'''You might have to search by a country's colonial or alternate name. Also, you might be able to find some gazetteers by looking at continent''' 1. Use what is already on the page. 2. Go to the FamilySearch Catalog. 3. Search "COUNTRY Gazetteer" at archive.org 4. Go to this website 5. Go to this website 6. Go to this website 7. Go to this website 8. Try that nation's archive website (you might have to translate "gazetteer" into that nation's language). 9. Link to this website: * World Gazetteers at Archive.org 10. General Google Search. (Avoid gazetteers that aren't helpful like animal or weather gazetteers. A Wikipedia list of places might be helpful.)

Filling out the rest of the page
1. Add the following the rest of the page:

Why Use Gazetteers
A gazetteer is a dictionary of place-names. Gazetteers list or describe towns and villages, parishes, states, populations, rivers and mountains, and other geographical features. They usually include only the names of places that existed at the time the gazetteer was published. Within a specific geographical area, the place-names are listed in alphabetical order, similar to a dictionary. You can use a gazetteer to locate the places where your family lived and to determine the civil and religious jurisdictions over those places.

There are many places within a country with similar or identical place-names. You will need to use a gazetteer to identify the specific town where your ancestor lived, the state the town was or is in, and the jurisdictions where records about the person was kept.

Gazetteer Contents
Gazetteers may also provide additional information about towns, such as:


 * Different religious denominations
 * Schools, colleges, and universities
 * Major manufacturers, canals, docks, and railroad stations
 * The population size.
 * Boundaries of civil jurisdiction.
 * Ecclesiastical jurisdiction(s)
 * Longitude and latitude.
 * Distances and direction from other from cities.
 * Schools, colleges, and universities.
 * Denominations and number of churches.
 * Historical and biographical information on some individuals (usually high-ranking or famous individuals)

2. Replace COUNTRY with the country's name in the Category template.