Template:Infobox Scotland Parishes/doc

Template:Infobox Scotland Parishes is an infobox for use on Scottish Parish Locality Pages to display important jurisdictional and and record-start data. It is generally modeled after Template:Infobox_England_Jurisdictions. Other templates that are helpful for Scottish articles:

• Template:Historical_populations - used to list population of the parish per decade.

Usage

The following blank template includes all the optional parameters. If a value is not set, the label will not be shown. Preferably all parameters except for | image and | caption will be utilized when implemented on a page.

{{Infobox Scotland Parishes | image = | caption = | Type = | ParishNo = | Historic County = | Burgh = | Council Area = | Registration District = | PRbegin = | KSbegin = | Presbytery = | Synod = | Sheriff Court = | Commissary Court = }}

Parameters

&/And Jurisdiction Rule

• Ampersands (&) are utilized when a jurisdiction has two parts to its name, such as Crathie & Braemar. The word 'and' is utilized when you are referring to two different jurisdictions, such as Edinburgh and Leith. Thus, the phrase Crathie & Braemar and Edinburgh refers to two jurisdictions, Crathie & Braemar and Edinburgh.

Parameter	Description
image	Include a link to a file here, generally something like an image of the parish church or the high street of the main town.
caption	Caption the image if one is added.
Type	Generally: Quoad Omnia or Quoad Sacra Parish, use one of the following options: [[Scotland Jurisdictions#Quoad Omnia Parish|Quoad Omnia Parish]] [[Scotland Jurisdictions#Quoad Sacra Parish|Quoad Sacra Parish]] In Orkney and Shetland: Many quoad sacra parishes are combined into one civil parish, with a name that represents all constituent parishes. Thus, its best to just refer to these as civil parishes. [[Scotland Jurisdictions#Civil Parish|Civil Parish]]
ParishNo	Old Parish Record (OPR) archival call number as designated by the National Records of Scotland. Value should be a number (123), a number with a letter (123a), or a number with a superscripted number (1231). For reference see NRS Coverage of Old Parish Registers.
Historic County	The 33 Counties utilized until 1974. If a parish falls into multiple counties, they can be listed in accordance with the and/& rule.
Burgh	Currently only burghs with seperate land valuation records as dictated by the National Records of Scotland here. Including burghs without genealogically relevant records is not useful for the purposes of the infobox.
Council Area	The 32 modern Scottish Council Areas. Generally the entity in charge of the current local archive.
Registration District	The registration district(s) that a parish was covered by upon their establishment in 1855. Many parishes with burghs were initially split into burgh and landward districts, but then quickly reverted to a singular district within a year or two; in this case, the single district is listed. If a parish was covered by multiple districts they can be listed in accordance with the and/& rule.
PRbegin	4-digit year that parish registers consistantly began according to NRS Coverage of the Old Parish Registers. If no parish registers exist, the field should read None extant.
KSbegin	4-digit year that kirk session records consistantly began according to archival entries in NRS Catalogue reference CH2. If no kirk session records exist, the field should read None extant.
Presbytery	Presbytery as noted in the Second (New) Statistical Account of Scotland (1845). Any changes should be noted in the History section of each page.
Synod	Synod as noted in the Second (New) Statistical Account of Scotland (1845). Any changes should be noted in the History section of each page.
Sheriff Court	List of sheriff courts available for the Historic County(s) which the parish lies within.
Commissary Court	Commissary court(s) for which records of inhabitants of that parish exist, largely according to Appendix 3 of Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry by Kathleen B. Cory (941 D27c), as well as newer data via ScotlandsPeople. If a parish was found in multiple comissariots, they can be listed in accordance with the and/& rule.