FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject New England Town Pages, Part 12

Project Leader
Taylor Huguely

Purpose
The purpose of this project is to add catalog records for land, probate, and town records section on the Connecticut town pages.

Task List
New England Town Pages, Part 12 Task List

Instructions
 Open the task list and go to Part 12. Place your name next to the town that you are going to edit. Go to the town page. Click on the Edit Source button on the top of the page. Go to FamilySearch Catalog Search for the town in the Place field. It should come up in reverse order. For instance if I were editing Darien it would show up as United States, Connecticut, Fairfield, Darien. Look for Land and Property. If there is not a land and property section skip to step 13. Click on the first link below the header.</li> For this part of the project you need to make sure that you are signed in to FamilySearch. Look at the format of the records. If they have a camera with a key over it or a microfilm roll, we will not link to it and you can move on to the next record if there are more records in that section, or if there are no other records in the Land and Property section, you can skip to step 12. If there is a camera icon, we will want to add it to the town page. We use the following template when linking to the catalog: *YEAR 1-YEAR 2 : at FamilySearch Catalog — images The year range is often found in the title of the record. The number is a little trickier. It is found in the url after catalog/ and before ?availability. Copy this and add it to the template.</li> For instance, if I was doing this for the town of Darien, my template would look like the following: *1765-1873 : at FamilySearch Catalog — images Add the template to the Land Records section on the town page. It should go below The following are online land records for the town of Darien:</li> Continue the steps above for any available land records for the town. Once you have finished adding them all, move on to the next step.</li> Go back to the town page on the Catalog. Look for the Probate records section.</li> Click on the first link below the header.</li> Follow the steps for Land and Property but add the collections to the Probate Records section of the page. It should go below The following are online probate records for the town of Darien:</li> Also, paste the following code in the probate records sections:</li> *1609-1999 : Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 at Ancestry ($) — index and images Go back to the town page on the Catalog. Look for the Vital records or Town records section.</li> Follow the steps for Land and Property But add the collections to the Town Records section of the page and any ocrresponding Vital Records sections.</li> Once you have finished write adding collections from the catalog into the summary box and save the apge.</li> Place the date that you finished the page in the task list and move on to the next town.</li> </ol>