FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Danish Infoboxes - Gods

Purpose
The infoboxes for the Danish parish pages are missing the "Gods (estate)" information. The purpose of the project is to add the correct gods information for each parish.

Contact
Amber Larsen

Task List
Task List

Step 1 - Search for the Parish in the FamilySearch Catalog
1. Go to the Task List and sign up for a span of wiki pages to fix. 2. Go to the first parish page in your respective span of pages. 3. Go to the FamilySearch Catalog, and search for the respective parish. Make sure the jurisdictions in your search bar match those from the Wiki. 4. In the search results in the FamilySearch Catalog, select the "Probate records" result.

Step 2 - Gods from the FamilySearch Catalog
5. Look at every result for the parish's Probate records. 6. The names of the Gods should come from the Author section for each probate collection, but only part of it. See below for examples (underlined sections indicate pieces of the Author section extracted for the Gods category):

As a sort of rule of thumb, when extracting the information from the Author section, take the content between "Danmark." and the first set of parentheses. Typically, that is the title of the Gods that we're looking for. However, there are exceptions and special cases (see first 3 entries in table below).'''This can be a complicated and confusing process, as the formatting of Gods names varies per Catalog entry. Follow the table below for examples:'''

Below are some common terms found in the Author section of the Probate records, and their translation:
 * amt (and variations thereof): county
 * birk: the name of a smaller jurisdiction separate from a township
 * gods: goods, freight, chattels
 * landsarkivet: national archive
 * herred: a district, made up of parishes
 * herredsret: district court
 * hofretten: ducal court
 * kancelli: chancellery
 * kloster: monastery
 * landretten: national court
 * provsti: deanery
 * skifte: probate
 * stadsretten: city court

Step 3 - Put Gods in the Infobox
7. When typing the Gods information into the infobox, separate each Gods with a semicolon and a space. See the example parish below for an example.

If there is a problem, if you are uncertain about the gods listed in the FS Catalog, or if you cannot find the Catalog page for a certain parish, email amberlarsen@familysearch.org with the parish information.

Example of Fixed page

 * Kåstrup Parish