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:*'''Scour Washington State Archives''' for items to post to 1) county pages, 2) WA topic pages, or 3) WA online collections page.  
:*'''Scour Washington State Archives''' for items to post to 1) county pages, 2) WA topic pages, or 3) WA online collections page.  
:*FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Washington Tasks-|task description]]
:*FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Washington Tasks-|task description]]


:*Probate and Land Records Tasks: Skills: High genealogical experience, Wikitext to create the "Contents" table for these topics.
:*Probate and Land Records Tasks: Skills: High genealogical experience, Wikitext to create the "Contents" table for these topics.
:**Decide with those in Washington and the team if we need to do the following, or will that which was scoured from FamilySearch HRC's, from Ancestry, and from WA state archives and libraries enough?
:**Include what records are available, time period the record covers and how they can be accessed including links to databases, images and references to books and microfilm and information to repositories.
:*Newspapers and Obituaries Task: Pattern somewhat after Utah. Be sure to add Chronicling America to the list.


:*County Histories: list of county histories available with links to online books and references to libraries
'''Final cleanup'''
:**Histories intro - rewrite?
:*Decide with those in Washington and the team: will that which was scoured from FamilySearch HRC's, from Ancestry, and from WA state archives and libraries enough?
:**Find at least one online history (Ancestry? WA archives?, Google Books, worldCat?, Internet Archive?)
:*Do links give enough info? 1) specific type of record, such as deeds, 2) time period covered, 3) source (database publisher or library/repository), 4) ($) or (Free)
:*Are there long paragraphs? Yes: shorten them, break into smaller paragraphs, or put them somewhere else.
:*Last visit to above the fold -- minimal space between county quick start and contents


:*Cemetery Records Task: (Difficulty level 3. People trained specifically for this task) 1) Link to major cemetery websites that contain cemetery transcriptions for the county; 2) Copy the colored table; 3) Adapt the websites to current county; 4) Check the links
:*Cemetery Records Task: (Difficulty level 3. People trained specifically for this task) 1) Link to major cemetery websites that contain cemetery transcriptions for the county; 2) Copy the colored table; 3) Adapt the websites to current county; 4) Check the links
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