FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Illinois IRAD

Purpose
To fix links on the pages for the Ilinois Regional Archives Depository

Contact
Jane Colmenares

Task List
Task List

Instructions
1. Go to the Task List and sign out a section of county pages to work on.

2. Go to your first county page.

3. Read the text looking for any occurrence of an IRAD link. a. Sometimes it will be to the word IRAD alone in a sentence example: Information regarding this can be found at IRAD. b. Sometimes it will be a collection link example: *1830–1919 County Court and Probate IndexIRAD–WIU

c. Sometimes it will be a link to both example:  *1830–1919 County Court and Probate IndexIRAD–WIU at IRAD

4. a. Anywhere you see IRAD referred to without a collection, add/change that to link to http://cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/home.html b. Add/Change the main part of the collection link to go to  http://www.ilsos.gov/isa/localgovrecordssrch.jsp c. Add/Change the institution part of the link to go to   http://cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/home.html

example: *'''1830-1919--- County Court and Probate Index at IRAD–WIU

The collections themselves will always link to:  http://www.ilsos.gov/isa/localgovrecordssrch.jspL The institution will always ink to: http://cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/home.html

5. Keep working through the page until you have updated all the occurrences of IRAD. (Note: you may want to stop and save your work half way through in case you time out)l.

6. Once you have finished updating the page enter "fixed IRAD links" in the edit summary box and save your work.

7. Review the page to make sure your work is correct.

8. Move on to the next county.