FamilySearchWiki:WikiProject Bible Records Pages

Current Projects page Updating Bible Records Pages

Purpose

To develop and format the state Bible Records pages, particularly those with no content.

Contact

Jane Colmenares

Instructions

Webex Video training

1. Go to the Task List and sign out a state. Some of the states will list an additional record collection for you to place under the Online Records heading.

2. Go to the state page you are going to work on. They all have already been created. For instance, if I was working on Tennessee, I would go to the "Tennessee Bible Records" page.

3. Once on the page, create a level 3 heading that says Online Records:
===Online Records===

Copy and paste the following directly under the Online Records heading:
*The [http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search/?Tab_ID=12 National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)] has an index of over 40,000 digitized family Bible records and each day more records are digitized and added to the Index.<br> *[http://www.learnwebskills.com/patriot/biblerecords.htm Index to Early Bible Records] provides a free index to over 17,000 online and offline pre-1830 Bible records.

4. Check the information that already exists on the page and see if there are other online collections relative to that state that you can list under the Online Records heading. If so, list them in bullet form directly under what you just pasted in. Do NOT delete the information from where it appears on the page, just create a duplicate listing to put under Online Records. Also, be sure to dd any record collection mentioned on the Task List page for your state.

5. Create a second heading "XXXXXXX Bible Records" with XXXXXX=state name you are working on. All other information on the page would go under this heading. Directly under the heading should be the following information or something very similar. If it is not there, copy and paste the paragraph below.

"A Bible was often given by relatives to a bride as a wedding gift, where she recorded information about her immediate family and close relatives. Relationships were seldom stated but were often implied. Names of parents, children, and their spouses, including maiden names, were frequently given along with dates of birth, marriage, and death. Sometimes the age of a person was given at the time of death. Many families kept Bible records from the 1700s (and sometimes earlier) to more recent times, although few have survived. Some have been donated to local libraries or societies."

6. Any other information on the page would fall under this heading.

See a sample of a page at User:Evancol/Sandbox/Bible_Records