FamilySearch Wiki:Social Life and Customs Research

Project Leader
Amber Larsen

Purpose
To enrich the Social Life and Customs pages for all country pages on the Wiki, providing background information to their family history in that location.

Task List
Task list

Step 1 - FamilySearch Catalog
1. Go to the FamilySearch Catalog. 2. Type in the respective country name in the search bar, then click Search. 3. Open the Social Life and Customs dropdown in the results list.
 * Note: If there is no result relating to Social Life and Customs, go straight to Step 2.

4. Open each link under the Social Life and Customs dropdown, and enter in the respective information into the task list.
 * Note: To add the URL to the Item Link column in the task list, highlight the entire link in the URL bar at the top of your web browser. You then have two options of how to Copy/Paste.
 * 1. Right-click on the highlighted URL link and select Copy, and right-click in the respective cell in the task list, and select Paste.
 * OR
 * 2. Highlight the URL link, and use the Control + C on your keyboard (Command + C if on a Mac) to Copy, select the respective cell in the task list, and use Control + V on your keyboard to paste the URL into that cell (Command + V if on a Mac).

Step 2 - Google Scholar
5. Go to Google Scholar. 6. Type in the name of the respective country, followed by "social life and customs".
 * Example: "Afghanistan social life and customs"

7. Examine both the titles of each result, as well as any brief content or summary given in the results page, to see if it has content related strictly to social life and customs.
 * Guidelines: If the book/article seems to be focused mostly on government/politics, economy, warfare, controversy, etc. do not add it to the spreadsheet.
 * Only pull results for the task list from the first two pages of results of your search.

8. If any entries seem to be of valuable Social Life and Customs content, add the respective content to the task list.

Example pages


If there is a problem or an uncertainty, feel free to email amberlarsen@familysearch.org or contact me through Yammer.