FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Update Wales Parish Pages

Project Leader
Virginia Pratt

Purpose
Update Wales parish pages to add more content and uniformity.

Video Instructions

 * Video

Task List
Updating Wales Parish Pages

Step 1:

 * Open the Task List and click on a county tab at the bottom of the task list.
 * There are thirteen counties in Wales, three of them are on hold and two of them have been completed.
 * Place your name next to the parish you want to edit
 * Click on the link and go to the parish page.

Step 2:

 * Click on the Edit Source button at the top of the page.
 * Scroll down to the Records heading.
 * Highlight everything from Records to the blank line above Maps and Gazetteers leaving the contents and headings for Maps and Gazetteers and Websites, press delete.
 * Here are two examples:

Step 3:

 * Copy and paste the following, and begin pasting where the Records heading was:

Parish Chest
Vestry minutes (DATES) are at the [URL ARCHIVE].

Church warden accounts (DATES) are at the [URL ARCHIVE].

Tithe Records
The tithe agreement date for PARISH NAME was DATE.

Nonconformist Chapel Records
XXXX-XXXX denotes that the information has not been compiled yet.

Civil Registration
The Civil Registration District for PARISH NAME is DATES AND NAMES CIV REG.

Poor Law Unions
Visit the England and Wales Poor Law Records page for more information.

Step 4:

 * Under the headings Tithe Records and Civil Registration change PARISH NAME to the name of the parish that you are currently editing.

Step 5:

 * Click Show Preview to make sure everything was edited correctly. The new page should look like the example pages referred to in step 7.

Step 6:
Update Wales parish pages - Project
 * Enter in the Summary and save changes

Step 7:

 * Return to task list. Place the date you completed the page and move onto the next parish.

Examples
Here are two examples example 1 and example 2 of what the pages should look like.