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Welcome to the England barn raising page! A wiki barn raising is a short, focused community effort to create or revise content relating to a single topic such as "genealogical research in England." The following tasks need to be accomplished during the England barn raising in February 2009. Please volunteer to complete one or more tasks by adding your name to this list. To add your name, log in, click Edit, insert three tildes (<nowiki>~~~</nowiki>) in the 'sign up...' column (the third column below) across from the task you wish to help out on, go down to the bottom of the editing page, and click 'Save Page', to save the page. '''More than one person may sign up to work on a given task'''. That way, those that sign up for a task can also communicate with each other on what they are doing. | Welcome to the England barn raising page! A wiki barn raising is a short, focused community effort to create or revise content relating to a single topic such as "genealogical research in England." The following tasks need to be accomplished during the England barn raising in February 2009. Please volunteer to complete one or more tasks by adding your name to this list. To add your name, log in, click Edit, insert three tildes (<nowiki>~~~</nowiki>) in the 'sign up...' column (the third column below) across from the task you wish to help out on, go down to the bottom of the editing page, and click 'Save Page', to save the page. '''More than one person may sign up to work on a given task'''. That way, those that sign up for a task can also communicate with each other on what they are doing. | ||
== England Pages to Update<br> == | == England Pages to Update<br> == | ||
Many of these articles came from the old England Research outline and need updating. Scroll down the list to see a short list of articles that need to be created from scratch. You may add tasks you think are needed or add a note to one you think is not needed for England. | |||
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| [[England Archives and Libraries|Archives and Libraries]] | | [[England Archives and Libraries|Archives and Libraries]] | ||
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| Big City Research | |||
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| [[England Census|Census]] | | [[England Census|Census]] (one of the four major record types) | ||
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| [[England Church Records|Church Records]] | | [[England Church Records|Church Records]] (one of the four major types) | ||
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| [[England Civil Registration|Civil Registration]] | | [[England Civil Registration|Civil Registration]] (one of the four major types) | ||
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| [[England Manors |Manors]] | | [[England Manors|Manors]] | ||
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| [[England Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc. |Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.]] | | [[England Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.|Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.]] | ||
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| [[England Probate Records|Probate Records]] | | [[England Probate Records|Probate Records]] (one of the four major types) | ||
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| Vital Records - see [[England Civil Registration|Civil Registration]] | | Vital Records - see [[England Civil Registration|Civil Registration]] | ||
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| [[England Voting Registers|Voting Registers]] | | [[England Voting Registers|Voting Registers]] | ||
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| <u>''General Pages to Create from Scratch:''</u> | |||
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| Getting Started | |||
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| Best Websites (or similar title) | |||
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| [Choose a general topic] | |||
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== Simple tasks == | == Simple tasks == | ||
Potentially, a large number of volunteers in the community may feel unqualified to write a how to article on a subject of interest, but they are available to do simple tasks that support the writing of articles. This is the place to list and/or volunteer for those tasks! If you're a writer, here's where you can get some help. If you're a volunteer or community member, here's where you can give some! | Potentially, a large number of volunteers in the community may feel unqualified to write a 'how to' article on a subject of interest, but they are available to do simple tasks that support the writing of articles. This is the place to list and/or volunteer for those tasks! If you're a writer, here's where you can get some help. If you're a volunteer or community member, here's where you can give some! | ||
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| Add England News & Events | | Add England News & Events to the Portal page | ||
| width="38%" | The England genealogical community needs volunteers to find genealogical news and events that relate to England and link to them from the News and Events section of the [[Portal:England|England Portal]]. For ideas on where to find news items, see [[Finding Genealogy News and Events within the United States|Finding Genealogy News and Events within the United States]]. | | width="38%" | The England genealogical community needs volunteers to find genealogical news and events that relate to England and link to them from the News and Events section of the [[Portal:England|England Portal]]. For ideas on where to find news items, see [[Finding Genealogy News and Events within the United States|Finding Genealogy News and Events within the United States]]. | ||
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== England county pages to update<br> == | == England county pages to update<br> == | ||
These pages should be written during the second phase of the barn raising. | |||
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