FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Updating England Parish Tables - Worcestershire Part 1

Purpose
We need to add new collections to the Worcestershire parish tables.

Project Leader
Amber Larsen

Task List
Task List

Instructions
1. Open the Task List, and add your name to the Name column for the parishes you want to sign up for.

2. Open the Worcestershire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1600-1812 collection on Ancestry.com.
 * You do not have to be signed in to Ancestry to work on this project.

3. Locate the right-hand side of the collection page in the box called "Browse this collection".

4. Locate the dropdown for Parish.

5. Click the dropdown for Parish, and check if the parish from the task list appears in the dropdown list of parishes.
 * a. If the parish does appear, put "Yes" in the In collection? column of the Task List, and continue to step 6.
 * b. If the parish does not appear, put "No" in the In collection? and in the Added to wiki page? columns of the Task List, and continue on to the next parish.

6. Go to the parish wiki page using the link in the "Parish" column of the Task List.

7. Go to the Church of England heading, and click "Edit source".

8. Copy the following code: 1600s-1812 9. Locate the section of the parish table that says  | bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| Ancestry Church of England BMD-Worcestershire ($) . Notice that there are 3 Ancestry links already in that section of the table (see the red numbers 1, 2, and 3 near the end of the lines). 

10. Paste the code from step 8 after each pre-existing Ancestry collection link, but before the " " code. See example below (blue highlight is the table section from step 9, yellow highlight is the new code added to the table):

11. Click "Show preview", and look at the final parish table. You should see the following new collection added (see yellow highlight in image below) 

12. If the table looks correct, add the following statement to the "Summary" box: Project adding Worcestershire church records 13. Save the page.

14. Put "Yes" to the Added to wiki page? column of the Task List.

15. Continue on to the next parish. 

Example Page

 * Abberton, Worcestershire Genealogy