User:Caileigholdroyd/Sandbox/South America Coverage Tables

Project Leader
Caileigh Oldroyd

Purpose
Make a table to show all the Catholic parishes, dioceses, and archdioceses in Latin America.

Task List
Task List

Beginning Instructions
Begin by opening these websites and the task list.


 * 1) GC Catholic
 * 2) The Catholic Directory
 * 3) Wikipedia
 * 4) Google
 * 5) Facebook
 * 6) MapCarta

=Part One=

Step One
1. Choose a municipality to work on. 2. We need to figure out which Archdiocese, Diocese, and Parishes are in the country. Start by looking up the Episcopal Conference of the Country. Use the Wikipedia or GC Catholic link for this. The Wikipedia link will show you the breakdown of the Archdiocese and Diocese in the region. GC Catholic will do the same once you click to the country and click either "Archdiocese" or "Diocese" next to "Jurisdictions"

Step Two
''Note: Many Latin American countries are organized on different municipal levels. They will be something similar to (Greatest to Smallest) Province/State -> District/County -> City/Town -> Neighborhood/Burrow. These will vary from country to country and the names may be different, but structurally are similar. Keep this in mind as you look for parishes and make sure you understand that ecclesiastical boundaries may or may not coincide with those municipal boundaries. 1. Pick an Archdiocese to work on within the country you chose on GC Catholic. If there are multiple archdiocese in the country, choose one to start on.  2. Pick a Diocese to work on within the Archdiocese you chose by clicking "Diocese" next to "Jurisdictions." 3. If the Diocese has a website, look for a page that says "Freguesias" (Portuguese), "Parroquias" (Spanish), or you can use the Google Extension to translate and look for "Parishes." (Make sure to translate back to original language to copy the parish names for the next part. 4. Usually the website will say where the parish is. Once you have this information, put it under the correct jurisdiction on the spreadsheet.  ''Note: Much of the time the parishes will be in the same jurisdiction, but occasionally it might be in a different region. If you have any extras that don't seem to fit, try checking the other regions. 
 * This should take you to a list you can choose from.
 * Click the first one.
 * This should take you to a diocese page.
 * Click the link where it says, "Website"

If there are no websites on GC Catholic, follow the suggestions below to find the parishes within the diocese you are researching:
 * Start by googling, "DISTRICT, PROVINCE, COUNTRY catholic archdioceses" and fishing through results/removing/adding words to make the search better.
 * If you cannot anything, you can do a reverse search by searching, "Catholic Church CITY, STATE, COUNTRY" on google maps. Once you find a parish in that area, look up which diocese it belongs to. There may be multiple diocese within a city boundary, but if you find one, it makes it easier to find others.
 * Use the other websites to see if you can find any parishes in the areas. Sometimes Catholic Directory will have some, but is spotty in some localities. If you think you know the Archdiocese, GC Catholic's Archdiocese and Diocese pages are good to click through their maps of the archdiocese/diocese to see any parishes.
 * If the Diocese doesn't have a website, try looking to see if they have made a page on Facebook. You can scope out information there, or even message them to ask questions.
 * MapCarta is good for finding out if a locality mentioned on a Diocese site is a city or neighborhood/burrow.