FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Adding Links from MDH to County Pages, Part 1
Purpose[edit | edit source]
Adding online resources from the Missouri Digital Heritage website to Missouri county pages. This part focuses on adding county plat books.
Task List[edit | edit source]
Sample Pages[edit | edit source]
Adair County, Missouri Genealogy
St. Louis County, Missouri Genealogy
Project Instructions[edit | edit source]
1. Select a county to work on from the task list. Type your name in the name column.
2. Go to Missouri Digital Heritage.
3. Click on the Quick Links to the upper right and select county plat books.
4. Go to the section at the bottom of the page titled "search by county".
5. Select your county and click "search".
6. Go to the Maps and Gazetteers heading on your county's Wiki page.
7. Check each county plat book on the Missouri Digital Heritage site to make sure it's not already listed on the Wiki page.
8. Add all county plat books from Missouri Digital Heritage not already listed on the Wiki page above the link to FamilySearch Places. See screenshot below for placement.
9. Copy the code reveal below and paste it on the Wiki page.
<nowiki>*[URL TITLE OF BOOK] at [https://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh# Missouri Digital Heritage]/nowiki>
10. Click the link for individual ebook you want to add and copy the URL for that ebook. Then paste it into the Wiki code, replacing URL.
11. Copy the title off the ebook and paste it into the wikicode, replacing TITLE OF BOOK.
12. Click show preview to check your work. It should look like the example below.
13. Put "added county plat book links" in the summary.
14. Click save.