FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Province Histories

Instruction
Task List

Step One: Open Page in Wikitext

 * From the Task List, select a province.
 * Click on the first available province. This will take you to the province's page.
 * Click Edit Source

Step Two: Locate Corresponding Page in Wikipedia

 * In a separate window, open Wikipedia.org
 * Search for the location.

Step Three: Extract Historical Information

 * From the introduction and the history section (and other sections if need be) of Wikipedia, find the following type of information:
 * The date the original area was founded.
 * The date the location was created.
 * What jurisdiction it belonged to at different periods of time.
 * Historically significant events (fires, earthquakes, battles) that may have damaged genealogical records.
 * Rephrase the historical information whenever possible so we are not directly copying Wikipedia.
 * The histories should be written in paragraph form, with each piece of information you find in a sentence right after each other.
 * The last sentence should give the population of the province. The basic format is already provided.
 * Fill in the name of the location
 * Fill in the population number, (usually stated in the sidebar), rounded to the hundred.

Step Four: Format Citation
There is already a template for a citation after the last bullet point.
 * Copy the name of the wikipedia article into "PAGE NAME"
 * Copy the wikipedia article's url into "URL"
 * Write the current date in place of "DATE"

Example Page
The following link is the completed province page for Álava, Spain Genealogy