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WikiProject Pennsylvania Progress Chart  Pennsylvania Wiki Project Task - Church Records: Ancestry

Task
Wiki Project Pennsylvania Tasks - Church Records: Ancestry Task

Description
There are 2 parts to this task: A) Add a general Ancestry database and B) to locate pertinent church record databases on Ancestry.com for the county.

PART A
1. Go to the county you are working on. Edit the page and change to wikitext.

2. Scroll down to, Church Records.

3. Add in Heading 5, "County-wide Database - Multi-denominational." It should be after the general description of the church records for the county and before the headings of the individual denominations.

4. Add the following under the heading, "County-wide Databases - Multi-denominational:"


 * 1708-1985 - Pennsylvania, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 at Historical Society of Pennsylvania – $, free to members of the society; Also available at Ancestry.com – $; This database is incomplete for all counties

PART B
1. Search Ancestry.com (AncestryInstitution.com)

2. To the right of the webpage, click on the county you are working on. A list of all applicable databases for that county will appear.

3.Church records are listed in 1) "Birth Marriage and Death." 2) Schools, Directories &amp; Church Histories." Sometimes you need to click on "View all Pennsylvania Birth, Marriage, and Death" to see the full list.

4.If there are any church records databases for this county on Ancestry, to to appropriate Denomination Heading on the county wiki page. If there is no heading for that denomination, add it as a heading 5 in alphabetical order.

5. Now list each applicable database from Ancestry under the correct denomination heading and after any written description about the denomination in chronological order and then alphabetical order in the following manner:


 * WITHOUT DATES IN TITLE


 * :* Chanceford Township, York County, Pennsylvania Church Records at Ancestry.com - $; index only


 * WITH DATES IN TITLE


 * :*1758 - 1800 York County, Pennsylvania, 1758-1800: First Moravian Church at Ancestry.com - $; index only

6. When adding a database with dates in the title, repeat the dates just after the bullet in bold. Make sure to use the N–dash between the dates and anytime it is used in wiki text. The N–dash is made by holding the alt key and typing 0150:

7. After each database listed, add any helpful info about the database after the $ in the entry such as, "not complete" or "index only" or "index and images". See examples above.

8. If an index covers more than one church for the county, put the database under the heading, County-wide Datbases - Multi-denominational and in chronological order among the other databases.

9. When linking Ancestry databases, be sure to use www.ancestry.com and not www.ancestryinstitution.com.

Moravian

 * 1758 - 1800 York County, Pennsylvania, 1758-1800: First Moravian Church at Ancestry.com - $; index only

Presbyterian Church

 * Chanceford Township, York County, Pennsylvania Church Records at Ancestry.com - $; index only