FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject New York/Tasks-Church Records FHLC Counties

WikiProject New York Progress Chart  Wiki Project New York Tasks - Church Records: FHLC for Counties.

Description:
This task involves searching for original church records in the Family History Library Catalog (FHLC) to be placed on each county page.

Instruction
1. To locate church records in the FHLC, do a place search in the Classic FHLC by typing in, "New York." Click on the first listing, "New York."

2. Click on the "View Related Places" on the upper right side of the page. This will give you a listing of all the counties in the state of New York. Start with Allegany County. (Albany has already been done.)

3. Click the topic of Church Records on that county listing of records in the FHLC. Review the entries for any original church records.

4. Now open a new separate window and go to the wiki. Type in your county name and go to that page.

5. You will be adding original Church records AFTER the template, and before the template,. It is also possible that these templates have not yet been added to your page. If they are missing, just add the information. They will be added in another Church Records task.

6. Viewing the FHLC for your county, add each original record to the wiki page creating a heading as needed for the denomination (use the same church name headings found on the United States Church Records wiki page for each denomination). For example, if it is a Catholic Church record, add the heading "Catholic" as a heading 5.

NOTE: Determining what is an original record is up to you. Add what you think would be helpful to the patron.

7. Use the following guidelines to create the original church entries:


 * i. Bullet each entry you make.
 * ii. The date should be bolded. Make sure to use the N–dash between the dates and anytime it is used in wiki text. The N–dash is made by holding the alt key and typing 0150.
 * iii. Put the sources in chronological order.
 * iv. Use the FHLC template to list the call number or film number.


 * NOTE: in the classic FHLC it is easiest to find the number you need for the template if you click on the "printable version of this record" at the bottom of the page. Then the number you need for the template appears as the last numbers in the url. Just double click on those numbers and they will highlight and then you only need to use Ctrl C feature to copy those numbers and then Ctrl V to paste them into the template for FHLC entries. Or you could right click on your mouse, click on copy, then paste into the template.


 * v. Put in an explanation of what this record has of importance to them; such as, baptisms, marriages, burials, language it is in, etc.

Example of two church listings:

*1799–1867 Society of Friends Peru Monthly Meeting – Hicksite Microfilm of original records. Marriages, removal certificates, and minutes. *1886–1916 St. Augustine Catholic Church Microfilm of original records. Baptisms, first communion, marriages, burials, and confirmations. Text in Latin.

8. As you add church records and create headings for the denominations, put them in alphabetical order. If there is more than one church record or online database for that denomination, put them in Chronological order, then alphabetical order as needed. Do not leave spaces between entries of church records (see example at the bottom of the page).

9. If there is a large number of original church records and online databases for a denomination (6 or more), you can put in subheadings in italics to group the online databases and original records in the following manner:

Online Databases  Original Records

10. If there are links to online church databases already added to the county page, move them to the correct denomination heading or create a new denomination heading.

11. After adding all the original church records and rearranging the additional online church databases in that county, save the page.

12. Next, go to the "Links to New York" chart at the bottom of the county page and click on the next county you will work on.

13. Going back to the FHLC, go to the listing of counties in New York that you brought up in step 2. Find that next county that you will be populating and Right click on that listing and open it in a new window.

14. Now go to step 5 and continue until you have finished all the counties.

Latter-day Saints (Mormons)

 * 1938–1941 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Champlain District.

Reformed Dutch

 * 1747-1802 - Baptismal Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Flatlands, Long Island, New York 1747-1752 at Olive Tree Genealogy.
 * 1785-1878 - Josephine C. Frost, Marriages Recorded at Reformed Dutch Church, Manhasset, Long Island: 1785-1878, Also a Few Deaths 1841-1878. Brooklyn, N.Y., 1913. Digital version at Ancestry ($).

Roman Catholic

 * 1762–1876 Registres Paroissiaux  Quebec Catholic Parish Registers. Has Baptisms, marriages, burials, and confirmations. Record data is in French. Digital indexed version available at
 * 1864–1881 Virginia Easley DeMarce, Baptisms and Burials: St. Edmund's, Ellenburg, New York, St. Philomene's, Churubusco, New York, St. James, Cadyville, New York, Clinton County, 1864-1881 (Plattsburgh, N.Y. (P.O. Box 1256, Plattsburgh 12901): The Society, 1990). ; .Includes indexes to godfathers, godmothers, and maiden names of mothers. Includes notes from cemetery, St. James, Cadyville.

Society of Friends (Quaker)

 * 1790-1900 - Quaker Marriages, Jericho Monthly Meeting, Long Island, New York. 1991. Digital version at Ancestry ($). Births 1812-1887, marriages 1790-1900, deaths 1813-1888.
 * 1800s - Register of Members, Jericho Monthly Meeting, Long Island, New York, courtesy: Dunham - Wilcox - Trott - Kirk.
 * Westbury Monthly Meeting and Nassau Monthly Meeting, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. III, courtesy: Ancestry ($).

Additional Church Records

Additional church records can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Clinton County, New York Church Records  in online catalogs like:


 * WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
 * (For instructions see FHL Catalog Place-name Search).