FamilySearch WikiProject:WikiProject England Parish Part 5

Current Projects page

England Parish Tables: Fixing National Burial Index Years

Project Leader

Virginia Pratt

Purpose

To update TheGenealogist (TGEN) years in every parish table to correspond with current available online docs.

Website

Parish Registers in TheGenealogist - gives the years for every parish found in TheGenealogist. Click on a county.

Task Lists

Completed Task Lists

Cornwall Task List
Durham Task List
Essex Task List
Gloucestershire Task List
Hampshire Task List
Leicestershire Task List
Norfolk Parish List
Northumberland Task List
Nottinghamshire Task List
Shropshire Task List
Somerset Task List
Sussex Task List
Warwickshire Task List
Worcestershire Task List

Instructions

Part 1: Task List and Talk Page

1. Choose a Task List above to work on.

Put your name in the Contributor Name column(s) of the Task List. You can choose how many parishes you want to work on during each work period. This way multiple people can work on the same county at the same time.

2. Choose a parish page (links are embedded in the Parish name).

3. Click on the Talk tab at the top left of the page, then click on "edit source" for the header named "New Parish Table"

**For every Wiki page - in this case, Acton, Cheshire Genealogy - there is an associated talk page that is used by contributors to discuss improvements about the Wiki page. In this project, we are using the Talk page as a sandbox to add content to the parish table before we move the completed table back to the Wiki page.**

4. The TGEN code we will be updating is located here:

This is what it looks like in the table:

NOTE: Some counties may only have one or two lines in the code. For example:

5. Go to Parish Registers Online and click on your county located on the left side of the page. Scroll down to find your parish, which is on the right side of the page.

NOTE:The parish may be listed multiple times for birth, marriage, death, and banns years. For example:

6. Go back to the code and change the years in the code according to what is found on the website.

For baptisms change these years:

For marriages change these years:

For burials change these years:

7. Choose the Show preview button to check your work before you save your changes.

8. In the summary tab type, Changing TGEN years and press save changes.

If Parish is Not Found in List

Option 1: If the parish is missing baptisms, marriages, or burials then put a <br> on the line instead of the brackets.

For example:

The parish of Bedford St Mary only has marriages 1802-1802 (there are no baptisms or burials). This is what the code will look like:

  |-
  | bgcolor="#ffffcc" | '''TGEN''' 
  | bgcolor="#ffcccc" | <br>
  | bgcolor="#ffcccc" | <br> 
  | bgcolor="#ccffcc" | [https://www.thegenealogist.com/parish-records/ '''1802-1802'''] 
  | bgcolor="#ccffcc" | <br> 
  | bgcolor="#ccffff" | <br>
  | bgcolor="#ccffff" | <br>

Option 2: If the parish is not found at all in the list, delete it from the table. There are 2 places to delete in the table:

Location 1: near the beginning of the code:

Location 2: near the end of the code:

NOTE: If you are unsure what to delete, put a note in the comments column of the spreadsheet and we will delete it for you.