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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 go to wikitext.

2. Scroll down to, Church Records.

3. Add in heading 5: State-wide Database. It should be after the general description of the church records and before the headings of denominations.

4. Add the following under the heading State-wide Database:


 * 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. Add

First look to see if there are any

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 Birth Marriage and Death. 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, list the databases under the appropriate Denomination Heading (if there is no heading, add it in alphabetical order at a heading 3 or 4 as appropriate) in chronological and then alphabetical order in the following manner:



5. You can list any other helpful info about the database after the $ in the entry such as, "not complete" or "index only" or "index and images".

6. If there are dates listed in the title of the database, 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:



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

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