FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject New England Town Pages, Part 21

Project Leader
Taylor Huguely

Purpose
The purpose of this project is to add catalog records for land, probate, and town records section on the Maine town pages.

Task List
New England Town Pages, Part 21 Task List

Instructions
 Open the task list and go to Part 21. Place your name next to the town that you are going to edit. Go to the town page. Click on the Edit Source button on the top of the page. Go to FamilySearch Catalog Search for the town in the Place field. It should come up in reverse order. For instance if I were editing Darien it would show up as United States, Connecticut, Fairfield, Darien. Look for Land and Property. Additionally, look at the county level in the catalog for Land and Property'. There should be a link to the county level at the top of the page. If there is not a land and property section on either page, skip to step 12. Click on the first link below the header.</li> For this part of the project you need to make sure that you are signed in to FamilySearch. Look at the format of the records. If they have a camera with a key over it or a microfilm roll, we will not link to it and you can move on to the next record if there are more records in that section, or if there are no other records in the Land and Property section, you can skip to step 12. If there is a camera icon, we will want to add it to the town page. We use the following template when linking to the catalog: *YEAR 1-YEAR 2 at FamilySearch Catalog — images The year range is often found in the title of the record. The number is a little trickier. It is found in the url after catalog/ and before ?availability. Copy this and add it to the template.</li> For instance, if I was doing this for the town of Darien, my template would look like the following: *1765-1873 at FamilySearch Catalog — images Add the template to the Land Records section on the town page. It should go below The following are online land records for the town of Town:</li> Continue the steps above for any available land records for the town. Once you have finished adding them all, paste the following code in the land records sections:</li> *1835-1838 at FamilySearch — How to use this collection, index and images Additionally, for towns in Aroostook County, add the following code:</li> *1865-1900 at FamilySearch - How to use this collection, images For towns in Piscataquis County, add the following code:</li> *1838-1902 at FamilySearch - How to use this collection, images Go back to the town page on the Catalog. Look for the Probate records section. Additionally, look at the county level in the catalog for Probate records'. There should be a link to the county level at the top of the page.</li> Click on the first link below the header.</li> Follow the steps for Land and Property but add the collections to the Probate Records section of the page. It should go below The following are online probate records for the town of Darien:</li> Also, paste the following code in the probate records sections:</li> *1584-1999 Maine, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1584-1999 at Ancestry ($) — index and images Additionally, for towns in Androscoggin County, add the following code:</li> *1854-1918 at FamilySearch - How to use this collection, images For towns in Aroostook County, add the following code:</li> *1837-2007 at FamilySearch - How to use this collection, images For towns in Kennebec County, add the following code:</li> *1779-1915 at FamilySearch - How to use this collection, images For towns in Knox County, add the following code:</li> *1861-1915 at FamilySearch - How to use this collection, images For towns in Oxford County, add the following code:</li> *1805-1915 at FamilySearch - How to use this collection, images For towns in Somerset County, add the following code:</li> *1809-1915 at FamilySearch - How to use this collection, images <li>For towns in York County, add the following code:</li> *1690-1917 at FamilySearch - How to use this collection, images <li>Go back to the town page on the Catalog. Look for the Vital records or Town records section.</li> <li>Follow the steps for Land and Property But add the collections to the Town Records section of the page and any corresponding Vital Records sections.</li> <li>Once you have finished write adding collections from the catalog into the summary box and save the page.</li> <li>Place the date that you finished the page in the task list and move on to the next town.</li> </ol>