Useful Information to Add to a Place Portal
The following are ideas concerning useful information you might add to pages about places.
- Links to pages about major ethnic groups of the area
- Events
- Links to non-English versions of the page
- Research Tools
- Date the jurisdiction was created, as well as the name(s) of its parent jurisdiction(s). For example, the creation date and parent counties of a county. (This information is usually available from FamilySearch Catalog.)
- Minimalist/simple/mandatory information rather than general information. (Exclude information that doesn't directly relate to genealogical research.)
- Links to other helpful/relevant pages in Wiki
- Strategy documents that help users select the right type of record to fulfill a research objective
- Links to major finding aids, such as gazetteers
- Links to major reference tools, such as translation helps or handwriting guides
- Link to the forum which covers the area
- Links to information on how to write narratives
- Links to local histories
- Timelines
- Use of Timelines (destruction, natural disasters, etc..)
- Genealogical/Historical events in media
- Images
- Events affecting jurisdictions and records
- Events affecting numerous deaths or migrations
- Laws affecting marriages, migrations, adoption, voting, record format, or record access
- Inventions affecting travel, migrations, etc., including delay between invention creation and implementation (such as the Utah railroad)
- Epidemics
- Wars and drafts
- Natural disasters
- Migration routes per time period
- How to make one category a subcategory of another