FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Updating Portugal Municipality Pages - Find Cemeteries

Purpose
Find Cemeteries on FindAGrave and BillionGraves and input information into the English Wiki.

Contact
Sylvie Pysnak

Task List
Task List

Step 1 - Find Cemeteries on FindAGrave
1. Go to Task List. Choose a district and enter your name to sign up for the municipality. Remember to put the date when you have completed the task. 2. Click on the municipality. This will take you to the municipality's page.

3. In a separate window, open the website FindAGrave 4. From the Cemeteries in Portugal list, choose a district. 5. If you see the municipality listed on the page click on the link and follow through multiple pages until you get to the cemetery page for the municipality. 6. The cemetery page will look like this:

7. Go back to the municipality page. 8. Locate Cemeteries heading on the page. 9. Click edit source link next to the Cemeteries to edit the information. 10. Do not delete the introductory sentence: ''Cemeteries did not become popular in Portugal until the late nineteenth century. Prior to this, individuals were buried their parish church, and their bones were later removed to an unmarked burial place. The following list may be helpful in twentieth-century research.'' 11. Delete 2 templates already on the page. 12. Add the following template:

NAME OF CEMETERY ADDRESS PORTUGAL Website: [CEMETERY PAGE URL FindAGrave]

13. Go back to the cemetery page. Fill in the contact information as follows: 14. Copy the first line which is the name of cemetery and replace NAME OF CEMETERY in the template. 15. Copy the second line except Portugal and replace ADDRESS in the template. 16. Replace CEMETERY PAGE URL with the link. 17. Most cemetery pages do not give additional contact information. However, if phone number and email are listed, add the following to the template above Website:


 * Phone: NUMBER
 * Email: [mailto:email email]
 * Make sure the email address is copied twice into the template, with a space between the two emails.

18. Click Save page button. Keep the municipality page open.

Step 2 - Find Cemeteries on BillionGraves
1. In a separate window, open the website BillionGraves 2. Choose a district. 3. You will see the list of cemeteries. Sometimes the name of the cemetery does not match a municipality name so have to click on each link.

4. Go back to the municipality page. 8. Locate Cemeteries heading on the page. 9. Click edit source link next to the Cemeteries to edit the information. 10. Do not delete the introductory sentence: ''Cemeteries did not become popular in Portugal until the late nineteenth century. Prior to this, individuals were buried their parish church, and their bones were later removed to an unmarked burial place. The following list may be helpful in twentieth-century research.'' 11. Delete 2 templates already on the page. 12. Add the following template:

NAME OF CEMETERY ADDRESS PORTUGAL Website: [CEMETERY PAGE URL FindAGrave]

13. Go back to the cemetery page. Fill in the contact information as follows: 14. Copy the first line which is the name of cemetery and replace NAME OF CEMETERY in the template. 15. Copy the second line except Portugal and replace ADDRESS in the template. 16. Replace CEMETERY PAGE URL with the link. 17. Most cemetery pages do not give additional contact information. However, if phone number and email are listed, add the following to the template above Website:


 * Phone: NUMBER
 * Email: [mailto:email email]
 * Make sure the email address is copied twice into the template, with a space between the two emails.

18. Click Save page button.

Example
The following link is the completed municipality page for The Municipality of Águeda