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| [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Pennsylvania|WikiProject Pennsylvania]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[WikiProject Pennsylvania Progress Chart|Progress Chart]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] Pennsylvania Wiki Project Task - Church Records Intro 1 | | [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Pennsylvania|WikiProject Pennsylvania]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[WikiProject Pennsylvania Progress Chart|Progress Chart]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] Pennsylvania Wiki Project Task - Church Records Intro 1 |
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| == Task == | | == Task == |
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| == Description == | | == Description == |
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| Locate information about the churches in your county using county histories and add it to the Intro about how to access county church records. This task is in three parts, A-C.<br>
| | Determine where church records are kept in the county in county archives, historical and genealogical societies. Also adding one template. This task is in two parts, A and B.<br> |
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| == Instructions == | | == Instructions == |
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| === PART B === | | === PART B === |
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| 1. Review some of the county histories in the [https://familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlc/ FHLC] for the county you are researching. You are specifically looking for churches in the county. <br> | | 1. Copy the following template and paste it in wikitext between the info you added in Part A and just before the the heading, State-wide Database: <br> <nowiki> {{Template:PAChurch1|Berks|333358}}</nowiki> <br> |
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| 2. Once you have located an appropriate history, look for the section containing the history of the churches in your county. There should be a chapter devoted to church history. <br>
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| 3. For each church denomination you find information on in the history book, rewrite in a concise manner any pertinent information about the history of that denomination. Use [[Berks County, Pennsylvania#Church_Records|Berks County Church Records]] as an example. <br>
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| 4. Cite the information from the book/books by doing the following: <br>
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| :4a. Using wikitext, place the citation right at the end of the sentence or paragraph you are citing. Use the following example as a guideline for creating the citation for the book you used:<br>
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| <nowiki><ref>P. William Filby, ‘‘A Bibliography of American County Histories’' (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1985), 99–100. {{WorldCat|12356760}}; {{FHL|299450|item|disp=FHL book 973 H23bi}}</ref></nowiki>
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| :4b. In Richtext click on the <R> button on the left on the tool bar. Once the new window is open insert your citation using the citation in 4a as a guide.<br>
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| 5. Before you leave the page, make sure there is a "Reference" heading (usually a heading 3) at the bottom of the page - but before the nav box. If it is not there, add it. <br>
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| 6. If you added the Reference Heading add the following just below the heading in wikitext: <br>
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| <nowiki>{{reflist}}</nowiki>
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| === PART C ===
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| 1. Copy the following template and paste it in wiki text under the heading Church Records: <br> <nowiki> {{Template:PAChurch1|Berks|333358}}</nowiki> <br>
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| 2. In the template, replace the county, Berks with the name of the county you are working on.<br> | | 2. In the template, replace the county, Berks with the name of the county you are working on.<br> |
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| == Example Part B == | | == Example Part B == |
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| [[Berks County, Pennsylvania|See Berks County, Pennsylvania, Church records heading.]]
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| == Example Part C ==
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| '''Finding Church Records at Other Repositories''' | | '''Finding Church Records at Other Repositories''' |