User:Caileigholdroyd/Sandbox/Latin America Parish Page Instructions

Project Leader
Caileigh Oldroyd

Purpose
Adding content to the Latin American parish pages in the English Wiki.

Websites

 * Catholic Hierarchy for histories

Part 1 - Filling in Breadcrumbs, Opening Sentence, and Categories
The title of the page contains most of the information you need to fill in the breadcrumbs, opening sentence, and categories. The order of the page title is as follows:
 * First word: Parish name
 * Second word: Canton name
 * Third word: Province name
 * Example:



Breadcrumbs
1. To fill in the breadcrumbs, click "Edit Source" at the top of the page. 2. Copy the following code and replace the breadcrumbs on the page.

2. Next to link2, put in the province name in both places where it says, "PROVINCE" 3. Next to link3, put in the canton name in both places where it says, "CANTON," and province name where it says, "PROVINCE" 4. Next to link5, put the name of the parish where it says, "PARISH," the name of the canton where it says, "CANTON," and the name of the province where it says, "PROVINCE" Example: 5. Click "Show Preview" and make sure there are no red links. Correct any red links. 6. Move to the Opening Sentence

Opening Sentence
The opening sentence says the following: "Guide to PARISH NAME ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records." 1. Where it says, "PARISH NAME" put the parish name. 2. Click "Show Preview" and make sure it looks right. 3. Move to the Categories

Categories
1. Scroll to the bottom of the page and find the code,  2. Copy the following and past it where it says, "ADD CATEGORY" Parishes of PROVINCE, Costa Rica 3. Replace the province name (the third word in the title of the page) where it says "PROVINCE" 4. Click, "Show Preview: and make sure there are no red links in the breadcrumbs or categories.
 * Sometimes it takes a moment for a new category to appear. If it is the first one you are adding for any of the other provinces, give it a minute to update before trying to edit or fix it.

5. Put "Parish Pages Project" as the reason, and click, "Save"

Part 2 - Adding Alternate Names
1. To add alternate names, look under column D, "Alt Names". 2. Add the alternate names in bullet form. Each name is separated by a comma on the spreadsheet.

Example:
 * Santo Cristo de Esquipulas de la Agonía
 * Santo Cristo de la Agonía
 * La Agonia (Santo Cristo de Esquipulas)
 * La Agonia
 * Iglesia La Agonia

3. Click, "show preview" and make sure everything looks right 4. Put Parish Pages Project as the reason and click, "Save"

Part 3 - Adding Histories
1. First copy this sentence and add it under the "History" subheading on the parish page. 

PARISHNAME is in the Diocese of DIOCESENAME within the Metropolitan Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica. Administratively it is part of the neighborhood of NEIGHBORHOOD, district of DISTRICT, canton of CANTON, and province of PROVINCE.

2. Fill in the information using the data on the task list. Diocese name is under column E, "Diocese" Location information is in column B.
 * The location column has the information in reverse order of what is presented below. Some may not have a district or neighborhood. It is okay to fill in just what is on the spreadsheet. Just take out the jurisdictions it doesn't have. 
 * Alajuela, Alajuela, Sarapiquí 
 * Alajuela is the Province, Alajuela is the Canton, and Sarapiquí is the District. 

This example would look like this on the page: 

San Miguel Arcángel is in the Diocese of Ciudad Quesada within the Metropolitan Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica. Administratively it is part of the district of Sarapiquí, canton of Alajuela, and province of Alajuela.

3. Check Catholic Hierarchy for a history of the parish's diocese (diocese is found in column E).
 * The history or the diocese is under "Historical Summary" and in table format.



4. Copy this sentence and put it after the first sentence you populated. Then add the information from the table to the sentence.

The DIOCESENAME was EVENT on DATE from FORMERDIOCESENAME. Records kept at the parish level likely stayed within the parish, but records made before EVENTYEAR may be housed in another archive depending on how they decided to keep the records.

Here is an example with the information filled in:

The Diocese of Ciudad Quesada was erected 25 July 1995 from the Diocese of Alajuela and the Diocese of Tilarán. Records kept at the parish level often stayed within the parish, but records made before 1995 in a defunct parish may be housed in another diocesan archive depending on how they decided to keep the records.

5. Edit the paragraph as needed to fix grammar. 6. Add references. Copy the following and paste it at the end of the history paragraph: 7. Click, "Show Preview" and check the reference link 8. Put "Parish Pages Project" as the reason, and click, "Save"

Explore Images Records
We need to gather information on these Explore Images links before adding to the coverage tables.

Part 1
1. Sign your name and click the link that is on the same row where you signed up. 2. Click the Link next to your name in Column C (Link). 3. Look at the first few pages to find the following information:
 * Municipality
 * Parish Name
 * Record Type
 * Date Range

Finding the Municipality
If it is not obvious from the first page of the book where the municipality is,

Finding the Parish Name
The first few pages of a parish register typically contain an opening statement, a cover page, or both that says what the particular book is. It will usually include the parish name and the municipality it covers. You may need to click through the first few pages of the digital images to find the opening statement or cover page. Here are a few examples of what you may experience:
 * You can typically spot the parish name by the words "freguesia de" or "paróquia de", which both mean parish.
 * Some books may contain more than one parish. The priest will sometimes mention this in the opening statement of the book.
 * You would put this on the spreadsheet as "Nossa Senhora Mai dos Homens" in Column E, "Actual Parish Name / Nome Real da Paróquia." In this instance, the priest also says there is another parish within this book. "Santo Antonio dos Anjos da cidade da Laguna". You can put this information in the "Notes / Notas" column and it will be added later.
 * You will not need to know how to translate the entire paragraph, just train your eye to look for the words "freguesia de" or "paróquia de". If there is more than one parish mentioned, put it in the "Notes / Notas" column. 


 * Sometimes the parish will go by the municipality name instead of the patron saint. This is fine to put on the spreadsheet as "Araranguá" in the "Parish Name" Column.

Finding the Record Type
1. Look on the front of the book for the following words: 2. Put down in the "Record Type" Column in English either Baptism, Confirmation, Marriage, or Death.

Finding the Date Range
These books are typically in chronological order, with occasional add ons. To find the actual date range the book, look at the first entry of events (baptism, marriage, or death), then go to the last entry of the book and look in the same place for the date of the last entry.
 * In this photo the date is "de mil novecentos e cinco" or 1905.
 * A Portuguese and Spanish number guide is at the bottom of this page that you can reference if you are English speaking.


 * Once you find the date range, add it to the "Date Range" column.
 * You only need to put the years. Reading the exact days and months is not necessary.
 * Please add a "; Index" for those sets that are only indexes. The Spanish word for index is índice.

No Opening Statement or Hard to Read Documents
Some books may not have an opening statement or it may be difficult to read. You can usually find the information needed for the spreadsheet within the records themselves, you just have to click through the pages. Here is an example of how to find the Date, Parish Name, and Municipality name in a baptism record:
 * The information that would go on the spreadsheet: Year - 1884; Parish Name - N.S. da Conceição; Municipality - Barra Velha