FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Adding Collections to Spanish Wiki - Ancestry

Purpose
Many of our previous Spanish Wiki projects in the Latin American countries only include online records from the FamilySearch Catalog. This project will consist of searching other major online websites for relevant collections for Latin American countries, and adding those collections to the respective pages in the Spanish Wiki.

Project Leader
Amber Larsen

Task List
Task List

Sign up on Task List
1. Go to the Task List and put your name in the "Name" column for the respective country you'd like to work on.
 * Note: At the bottom of the Task List, there are multiple sheets, each for a different country. You can work on any of those countries you'd like.

Ancestry.com
2. To search Ancestry.com you will need to have an Ancestry account. If you do not already have an Ancestry account, go to FamilySearch Partner Access to create an account using your Church Membership.  3. Once logged into Ancestry.com, go to the Ancestry Card Catalog.

4. Type the name of your country in the Keyword field, and click "Search". 

5. Analyze the list of results, and find church records, civil registration, cemetery, or census collections that are specific to that country. For example, you would not use collections such as Find A Grave, or collections that are broadly Hispanic, as they are not specific to that country.
 * Note: Typically, the "good" collections are the ones that have the name of the country in the title.

6. An example of "good" collections to use for Chile is shown below.

7. Open the first "good" collection link from the results list.

8. Once on the page, look for a "Browse this collection" section on the right-hand side. Using the dropdown(s) in this section should tell you the precise locations that are covered in that collection.
 * Note: If your collection does not have this section on the collection page, skip to step ______.



9. Using the places listed in the dropdown(s) in the "Browse this collection" section, find the equivalent Spanish Wiki pages for those locations. Those will be the pages you will be adding this collection to.
 * Note: Occasionally after you select an option from the dropdown, another dropdown may appear below showing more exact locations. If this is the case, use that second dropdown box however you feel will best help you figure out what equivalent Wiki pages this collection will go on.

10. From here, skip to step _______.

MyHeritage.com
11. To search MyHeritage you will need to have a MyHeritage account. If you do not already have an Ancestry account, go to FamilySearch Partner Access to create an account using your Church Membership. 

12. Go to the MyHeritage Collection Catalog. 

13. Search for your country's name in the search box in the top-right corner.

14. Analyze the list of results, and find church records, civil registration, cemetery, or census collections that are specific to that country. For example, you would not use collections such as Find A Grave, or collections that are broadly Hispanic, as they are not specific to that country.
 * Note: Typically, the "good" collections are the ones that have the name of the country in the title.

15. An example of "good" collections to use for Chile is shown below. 



16. Open the first "good" collection link from the results list.

17. On the collection page, search for the name of each major jurisdiction of your country (department, region, province, etc.) in the "Place" field. (NOT the smaller localities, like distritos or municipios)
 * Note: in birth-related collections (such as Baptism collections), search in the Birth place field; for marriage-related questions, search in the Marriage place field, etc. 

18. If you do find entries in the search results for that jurisdiction, that indicates that we will be adding this collection to the localities within that jurisdiction (e.g. the districts within that department, etc.)
 * If you do not find entries in the search results field, we will not be adding this collection to the pages belonging to that jurisdiction. Continue searching each jurisdiction to find what locations the collection does cover.

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