FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject New York

Welcome
Welcome to the New York WikiProject! We welcome contributors here. We are focusing on the county pages for the 62 current counties of New York. We have built a foundation for a county page, with record type headings.

We are in process of adding town (city) pages. Some of larger cities and towns now have their own Wiki page. We will be adding information about records specific to those towns and cities, as well as cross-linking to larger cities and towns and to the counties where additional records for the residents of those localities may be found.

In a few cases, we will add pages for towns of historical interest which may no longer exist (ghost towns). For the most part, that is a future part of the project, but you are free to add information you may know about such localities and their records.

We invite you to add whatever you know about the records of the county or counties and/or the towns or cities in which you are interested. Working together, we can all benefit from the knowledge of community members on the Wiki.

If you have questions, or need some guidance on what to add or how to do so, feel free to contact the project leader or other team members.


 * W. David Samuelsen, moderator

The Tasks
The tasks as of 8 June 2011:


 * 1) Correct the subject headings: In progress
 * 2) Search for potential duplicate pages already existing.
 * 3) Fix attributions/sources to italic style.
 * 4) Locate county courthouse address. Will be absorbed into Infoboxes, time permitted. - In progress.
 * 5) Create and install locality templates for each county. - in progress
 * 6) NY Gen Web in progress
 * 7) NY Gen Web Archives in progress
 * 8) Rootsweb Not started
 * 9) My New York Genealogy Not started
 * 10) Cyndi's List (Scroll down or search for county name on the page) Not Started
 * 11) ancestry.com (Need ancestry.com US subscription) Must add this style Ancestry ($)
 * 12) US Gen Net (Only some counties, also many regionial societies)
 * 13) D'Addezio.com Not started
 * 14) Find a Grave Cemetery Map by County Not used at county level. List at town/village/city level.
 * 15) Honetownlocator New York Gazetteer Not to be used any more as Infoboxes are being developed for the town/city/village with Coord template included. Contact the moderator for assistance.
 * 16) Linkpendium - check further sources, list at subject heading at appropriate level (county, city/town/village)
 * 17) Images of records and localities: in progress
 * 18) Check the Unassigned Links for new sources to add to county/city/town/village pages as needed.
 * 19) check New York Gravestone Photo Project for cemetery listings. Contact the site admin if you believe there is/was a cemetery but not listed for direct record link.
 * 20) Create list of towns/villages/cities and list of counties for each of the routes as listed in New_York#Migration Routes
 * 21) Add attractive images to most NY topic pages
 * 22) Add a list of National Archives and FHL film numbers to NY Passenger Arrival Lists, Jason
 * 23) Create good pages for extinct NY counties (red links)
 * 24) Create good pages for NY major repositories (red links), NY State Archives Patsy
 * 25) Create good pages for NY migration routes (red links), Chambly Canal David
 * 26) Create a page showing NY Soundex National Archives and FHL films, Tim