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===== Locating and Adding Online County Histories on Google Books ===== | ===== Locating and Adding Online County Histories on Google Books ===== | ||
1. | 1. Click on your chosen county name in the [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Ohio Tasks-County Histories found in Google Books and Internet Archive#Assignment_Chart|Assignment Chart]]. This will take you to your county page. | ||
2..Copy this URL | |||
2. Login to the FamilySearch wiki using your FamilySearch login name and password. Find the sign-in area in the top right-hand corner of the page. | |||
3. Scroll to the heading History. | |||
4. Open the History heading for editing by clicking on the pen in square on the right-hand side of the page, opposite the heading title. | |||
5. Click on the word wikitext in the toolbox at the top left of the edit box. | |||
6. Open a new tab at the top right of your screen to a blank Internet page. The new tab will look like a blank tab or it will have a plus sign in it. Click inside the empty tab to open the new page. To toggle between your county page and the new Internet page you open, click your mouse inside the tab for either page. | |||
7.Copy this URL | |||
::http://books.google.com/ | ::http://books.google.com/ | ||
8. Paste the address into the address bar at the top of the page. | |||
9. Under "Researching A Topic" type your county name and Ohio and County History in the white search box. (Example: Mahoning County Ohio County History). | |||
10. View the search results. If the book can be viewed online and you feel it is a good history use the following steps to add the link to the wiki. | |||
:a. Open the Google book to view. | :a. Open the Google book to view. | ||
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::http://books.google.com/books?id=zxkVAAAAYAAJ | ::http://books.google.com/books?id=zxkVAAAAYAAJ | ||
:c.Copy only the part of the URL up to the end of the capital letters after the ?id=. | :c.Copy only the part of the URL up to the end of the capital letters after the ?id=. | ||
:d. | :d. On the Google book page, click on "About this book" in the right hand column. Make a note of the book author, title, and publication information. The title is at the top of the page. The author follows below it. Below the words ''Review'' the publisher and publishing date are posted. Note that sometimes the author and the publisher are the same name for county histories. | ||
11. Return to the wiki page you opened for editing. (Click inside the tab for the page at the top of your Internet page.) | |||
12. Scroll to the subheading '''Local Histories'''. Hit the enter key. | |||
13. Use the following format to enter the Google book(s) onto the wiki page. | |||
:*(a) : (colon) | |||
:::*If the format in the wiki is already established and does not have a colon, follow the format already established. | |||
:*(b) * (star) | |||
:*(c) The catalog entry: | |||
::*Author , Title in italics, Publication information in parenthesis. | |||
:::*For the author,type the last name, comma, and then the first name. If there is the name of a society or a series of authors, type them as written. | |||
:::*To make italics put two <nowiki>''</nowiki> before and after the title. Be sure to capitalize the proper words in the title. | |||
:::*Add the publication information inside parenthesis. | |||
:::*Add the link to Google Books | |||
::::Use this format: Digital version at [URL to book Google Books]. | |||
::::Where the format states ''URL to book'' paste the URL you copied in step 10c. | |||
14. Repeat this process for as many books as you found useful on Google Books. | |||
14. In the "Summary" box at the bottom of the page add the words, "Added Google County Histories" and then click the Save page button. | |||
{{tip|To make the page look uniform, do not space between entries, but do make sure there is a space between a heading and an entry.}} | |||
===== Locating and Adding Online County Histories on Internet Archive ===== | ===== Locating and Adding Online County Histories on Internet Archive ===== | ||