FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Research Facilities in Iowa Counties

Purpose
To check website links and format of archives, libraries, museums, and societies contact information on each Iowa county page.

Contact Person
Beverly Repouille

Task List
Task List

Instructions
1. Go to the Task List and sign up for a span of counties to work on.

2. Go to this link for Iowa Counties.

3. There should be archives, libraries, museums, and/or societies already listed on the county page. We are not formatting FamilySearch Centers listed on the county page.

Check for broken links
4. Check the links listed in the contact information for each archive, library, museum, and/or society listed on the county page.

5. If the link is broken, use Google to locate the correct link.

6. If you find the new link, replace the old link. If you cannot find an active website link, send a message to Beverly and leave that part of the information out.

Reformat Contact Information
Use the following instructions to reformat any listing that does not match.

NOTE: you do not need to locate additional archives, libraries, museums or societies. Although, if only a website is given, we ask that you add the contact information using the instructions below:

7. We would like each entry to have the following when available. If it is NOT available, you do not need to go hunting for the information. It should either be on the main page or the "Contact Us" page. If it IS missing information, please skip over it. (See Examples at the bottom of this page)


 * Name of the society
 * Address
 * Telephone number
 * E-mail
 * Website

8. Format name of society: Add the name of the society in alpha order under the appropriate heading. Bold the name of the society. In Wikitext, use three apostrophes to bold the name. If a URL is in the title, remove the URL and add it to the end of the list to be formatted later. There should be no bullet before the name of the society.

Example in wikitext:

Autauga County Genealogical Society

9. Format Address: In wikitext, the address should be directly behind the name of the city and have a  after each portion of the address. Using abbreviations in the address is OK. If you choose to use them, please make sure they are used the same way on each page.

Example in wikitext:

Autauga County Genealogical Society 1234 Main Street Prattville, Alabama 36068-0668

10. Add Telephone: If there is a telephone number, add it after the address using the example below. As we are dealing with U.S. counties, you do not need to add the 1- in front of the phone number.

Example in wikitext:

Autauga County Genealogical Society 1234 Main Street Prattville, Alabama 36068-0668 Telephone: 310-555-2929

11. Add Email: If there is an email address for the society, make the email address into a clickable link by using the wikitext: [mailto: as seen in the example below. The email address goes directly after the telephone number.

Example of correct link for email address in wikitext:

Email: [mailto:askarchives@autaugahistory.org askarchives@autaugahistory.org]

Example of contact information with Email address:

Autauga County Genealogical Society 1234 Main Street Prattville, Alabama 36068-0668 Telephone: 310-555-2929 E-mail: [mailto:askarchives@autaugahistory.org askarchives@autaugahistory.org]

12. Adding Website: Put the URL after the address, telephone, and email address on the page. If there is a website already listed on the page, change any exposed URLs so that the full URL does not appear. Some research facilities use Facebook as their website. If there is a Facebook link, post it as "Facebook" instead of "Website". Use the examples to help you enter the URL for the society.

Example of correct URL link for Website in wikitext:

Autauga County Genealogical Society 1234 Main Street Prattville, Alabama 36068-0668 Telephone: 310-555-2929 E-mail: [mailto:askarchives@autaugahistory.org askarchives@autaugahistory.org] Website

Example of correct URL link for Facebook in wikitext:

Adair County Historical Museum 2393 S Lakeview Dr Greenfield, IA 50849 641-743-2232 Facebook

13. Make sure there is a double  at the end of the listing. This will make sure there is enough space between each listing.

Confirm Contact Information
14. Use the Website link (if there is one) or use Google to confirm the contact information we have listed on the county page. Change anything as necessary.

Additional Information
15. Sometimes additional information is listed under an archive, library, museum, or society. If there is already information listed, format it so it is under the contact information. Use a colon in front of the information so it is indented and move the double   to the end of information. You WILL NEED to go to the next line to add the additional information as in the example below. NOTE: YOU DO NOT NEED TO ADD MORE INFORMATION. We are only formatting in this project.

Example in wikitext: Adair County Historical Museum 2393 S Lakeview Dr Greenfield, IA 50849 641-743-2232 Facebook :Has an obituary collection in the Genealogy Room of the library.

Adair County Historical Museum 2393 S Lakeview Dr Greenfield, IA 50849 641-743-2232 Facebook
 * Has an obituary collection in the Genealogy Room of the library.

Preview the Page
16. Once you formatted all of the repositories and societies, preview the page to make sure links work and formatting is correct.

17. In the Edit Summary box add, formatted repositories and societies and save the page.

18. Go back to the Task List and put the date and sign up for a new span of counties.

Example
Below are some examples of repositories and societies contact info.

Libraries
Adair Public Library 310 Audubon Adair, IA 50002-0276 641-742-3323 Website Casey Public Library PO Box 178 Casey, IA 500048 641-746-2670 Email: [mailto:caseylib@netins.net caseylib@netins.net] Website Greenfield Public Library 202 S First St PO Box 328 Greenfield, IA 50849 641-743-6120 Email: [mailto:greenpl@iowatelecom.net greenpl@iowatelecom.net] Website

Museums
Adair County Historical Museum 2393 S Lakeview Dr Greenfield, IA 50849 641-743-2232 Facebook

Societies
Adair County Anquestors Genealogy Society c/o Greenfield Public Library PO Box 328 Greenfield, IA 50849-0328 Website Adair County Iowa Historical Society 2393 S Lakeview Dr Greenfield, IA 50849 641-743-2232 Facebook