User:Bloosgrl/sandbox18

Purpose
Updating and standardizing the cemeteries tables for every county in the United States.

Contact Person
Heather Mecham

Task List
Task List

Project Instructions
1. Copy and paste the code below into a sandbox.

2. Replace COUNTY NAME with the name of the county and STATE NAME with the name of the state. Click Save. 3. Check each link in the table on the county page on the wiki. Click each one. Anything that no longer provides cemetery information or is a bad link can be skipped. Anything that still links to cemetery information can be moved to the table in your sandbox. Links for Find A Grave and BillionGraves must link to the county pages on those sites. 4. Click save and double-check your work. 5. You will add additional resources, as listed below. If any are already in the current table, they can be skipped.

Check Find A Grave
1. Go to Find A Grave. 2. Type in the name of the county in the cemetery location search box and click search. 3. Copy the URL. 4. Go back to your sandbox and find the heading "Tombstone Transcriptions Online." Look to the right of the heading where it says: *[URL Find A Grave] 5. Highlight URL and paste the link you copied in place of URL. Make sure that there is a space and then the name of the link (Find A Grave) in between the open and close brackets.
 * This is an example of what the Find A Grave URL should look like: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/search?cemetery-name=&cemetery-loc=Bedfordshire%2C+England&only-with-cemeteries=cemOnly&locationId=state_4205 Find A Grave

4. Go back to Find A Grave. 5. Click cemeteries on the menu across the top. 6. Enter the county name in the cemetery location box. 7. Click the orange search button on the right. 8. Copy the URL. 9. Go back to your sandbox and find the heading "List of Cemeteries in the County" Look to the right of the heading where it says: *[URL Find A Grave] 10. Highlight "URL" and paste the link you copied in its place. Make sure that there is a space and then the name of the link (Find A Grave) in between the open and close brackets.

US GenWeb Archives Transcription Project
1. Go to US GenWeb Archives 2. Click on the table of contents for your state. 3. Click on your county. 4. Copy the URL.