WikiProject:FamilySearch Catalog Church Records

Current Projects Page

FamilySearch Catalog Church Records

Project Leader

Caileigh Oldroyd

Purpose

Check church records links for the author (church name) and add it to the appropriate pages.

Video Instructions

Video Link

Task List

• Barnstable

NOTE: You can scroll through tabs on Google Sheets. Next to the first tab, there are four lines stacked vertically. If you click that, you can see a complete list of all tabs on the Google Sheet. Additionally, next to the last tab, there are right and left arrows that you can click to scroll through.

Church Records

Step One - Sign Up

Sign your name next to a link on the Church Records tab of the task list.

• NOTE: You can scroll through tabs on Google Sheets. Next to the first tab, there are four lines stacked vertically. If you click that, you can see a complete list of all tabs on the Google Sheet. Additionally, next to the last tab, there are right and left arrows that you can click to scroll through.

Step Two - Click the Link

Using the links on the task list, click the place you want to work on.

Step Three - Click the header name in the Contents

In the contents, select the header that is mentioned in column D on the task list. This should jump you down to the subheading or you can also just scroll down to this subheading.

Step Four - Click Edit Source next to the header

• Click Edit Source next to the header you found in column D.

• Copy the code in column E and paste it in chronological order by date.
  
  

Exceptions:

• If the link is already on the page, replace it with this new link to make it match the new manual of style. Do not worry about other entries on the page that are not in accordance with the manual of style.
• If there are no other entries with dates, put this as the first bullet.
• If there is a note about there being no online records available, please replace that note with this link.

Step Five - Double Check the Author

• Use the corresponding link in column F to go to the catalog page for this link
  
  
• Look over the catalog notes to see which church the records belong to
  
  

• You may need to look inside the images (camera icon at the bottom) to see what church it is for
  
  

• Go back to look at the link you pasted on the county or town page and see that the author (before FamilySearch Catalog in the link) is correct. Here is an example of what it should look like:
  
  

• *'''1824-1900''' {{FSC|761194|title-id|disp=Church records, 1824-1900}}(*) First Baptist Church at FamilySearch Catalog - images
  
  

Step Six - Show Preview and Save

• Click Show Preview to make sure it looks good and the link works.

• Enter in
  

Barnstable Catalog Collections Project 

as the Summary.

• Click Save Changes.
  
  

Put a date next to your name on the task list once you've finished a link.

FamilySearch Center (FSC); formerly called, Family History Center (FHC)

Due to contractual agreements, some images and/or databases on FamilySearch.org may only be viewed at a FamilySearch Center or FamilySearch Affiliate Library.

To access available information, first log into FamilySearch.