Creating or Patrolling Online Genealogy Records Pages

What We Put On an Online Genealogy Record Page
=== 1. Databases with actual people data=== Every link should be an online databse that our users can search for possible names, dates, or places to add to their family histores. Links to library records or books/CD ROMs/etc. are not appropriate. It must be a readable database. For example:

What We Don’t Put On Online Genealogy Records Pages

 * How-to articles
 * Methods and strategies
 * Information about social customs
 * History that doesn’t include biography
 * Long lists of “great” links
 * Chats, forums, bogs
 * Societies, except membership societies with pedigree databases
 * Extremely small collections

Sources We Use to Find Links
1. FamilySearch Historical Collection

2. Links in Wiki Articles

3. Major Websites:
 * Ancestry.com
 * findmypast.com
 * MyHeritage.com

4. Cyndi’s List—not everything she has. Our requirements are more specialized.

5. Google main topics—Keywords:
 * Genealogy
 * Online database
 * Birth records, death records, marriage records
 * Church records
 * Census
 * Cemetery records
 * Wills and probate

6. E-Book Collections, using the same keywords:
 * Hathitrust
 * Internet Archives
 * Google Books

7. Family History Library Online

Patrolling Issues—Watch for These Errors.

 * A link that is not a database of names of people.
 * Information for a smaller geographic area.
 * A non-standard sub-topic. Or no sub-topic.
 * A link that doesn’t lead immediately to the search page of the named collection
 * No index status: index and images, images only, incomplete
 * Incomplete.
 * Other lengthy explanatory remarks.
 * Other lengthy explanatory remarks.