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Updating England Parish Tables - Bristol Part 2

Purpose

We need to add new collections to the Bristol (Gloucestershire and Somerset) parish tables.

Project Leader

Amber Larsen

Task List

Task List

Instructions

1. Open the Task List, and add your name to the Name column for the parishes you want to sign up for.

2. Open the Bristol, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938 collection on Ancestry.com.

You do not have to be signed in to Ancestry to work on this project.

3. Locate the right-hand side of the collection page in the box called "Browse this collection".

4. Under the dropdown for County, and select "Bristol". You will need to repeat the following steps in this project for the other counties in that dropdown (Gloucestershire and Somerset).

5. Then, click the "Parish" dropdown, and check if the parish from the task list appears in the dropdown list of parishes.

a. If the parish does appear, put "Yes" in the In collection? column, and continue to step 6.
b. If the parish does not appear, put "No" in the In collection? and in the Added to wiki page? columns of the task list, and continue on to the next parish.

6. Using the following Wiki lists of parishes, locate a matching parish name and go to that Wiki page.

If the location in Column D says "Bristol", refer to the Gloucestershire Parishes AND Somerset Parishes lists to find a matching parish.
If the location in Column D says "Gloucesetershire", refer to the Gloucestershire Parishes list to find a matching parish.
If the location in Column D says "Somerset", refer to the Somerset Parishes list to find a matching parish.
If you can't find a good match in either list, put "No" in Column F, and make a note "No corresponding parish" in Column G of the task list, and continue on to the next parish in the task list.

7. Go to the Church of England heading of the corresponding Wiki parish page, and click "Edit source".

8. Locate the line of code in the parish table that says | bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| Ancestry-Bristol ($) and continue to step 9.

If that line of code does not exist, follow the sub-steps 8a-8c below to add that section to your parish table.

8a. Copy the following code:

| bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| Ancestry-Bristol ($)
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>  
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center> 
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#ffffff" | <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8" | <center>'''-'''</center>
| bgcolor="#E8E8E8"| <center>'''-'''</center>
|-

8b. Locate the section of the parish table that says | bgcolor="#ffffff" width="30%"| Ancestry-England & Wales, Birth, Christening, Marriage and Death Indexes ($), and add one empty line above that section of the table (see the yellow line in the image below).

You may also use Ctrl+F to search for this section of the parish table, if that is easier.

8c. Paste the code from step 8 into the empty line you just created. (See example in yellow of finished code below)

9. Copy the following code:

[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61686/ 1700s-1900s]

10. Locate the 3rd line below "Ancestry-Bristol($)", which should be the one highlighted below.

11. Replace the instance of '''-''' with the code you copied in step 9.
The resulting code should look similar to this:

12. Click "Show preview", and look at the final parish table. You should see the following new collection added in the Marriages for Bristol (see image below)

13. If the table looks correct, add the following statement to the "Summary" box:

Project adding Bristol church records

14. Save the page.

15. Put "Yes" to the Added to wiki page? column of the Task List.

16. Continue on to the next parish.

Example Page

Bedminster St John the Baptist, Somerset Genealogy