FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Maryland

Welcome to the Maryland 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 Maryland." The following tasks need to be accomplished during the Maryland barn raising in January 2009. Please volunteer to complete one or more tasks by adding your name to this list. Before you can add your name to the list below, you must register. After you have registered, log in to the Wiki, and while on this page, click the "Edit" option located in the page options box to the right. This will open the "Editing" window. Insert three tildes (~~~) in the 'sign up...' column (the third column below) across from the task you wish to help out with, go down to the bottom of the editing page, and  click 'Save Page', to save your changes.  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 by clicking on the user's name and editing that user's discussion page.

Maryland state pages to update

Headings that prompt us to include a complete set of information in an article can be found at FamilySearch Wiki:Headings for Articles about Records. For an example of these headings in action, see the Maryland Newspapers page (and its discussion page). For an example of a good repository page see the Worcester County, Maryland Courthouse page.

Task Description	Notes	Sign up by inserting 3 tildes (~~~)	% Done
American Indians	Basic article has been written. Some notes and links still need to be added.	Jbparker	75%
Archives and Libraries		Kimleavitt
Bible Records		Mustard
Bibliography		Hendricksonp
Biographies		Johnalbertrigali (tentative)
Cemeteries		Franjensen
Census		Hardestypn Oliver joyce
Church Records		Kirkbe
Court Records		nixiao
Directories		healeyje
Emigration and Immigration		Mmark
Gazetteers
Genealogy
History		Diltsgd
Land and Property
Maps		Ritcheymt
Military Records	Nearly finished, working on additional links	Familyjournals	95%
Minorities		healeyje
Native Races	This links to American Indians	User:Jbparker [[User:KathleenOlsen42054]]
Naturalization and Citizenship		Batsondl
Newspapers		Ritcheymt
Periodicals
Probate Records
Public Records
Societies	Nearly finished, working on additional links	Familyjournals	95%
Taxation
Vital Records		Batsondl Gjmmtkkl
Voting Registers

Simple tasks

Potentially, a large number of missionaries at Church Headquarters and volunteers in the community 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 missionary or community member, here's where you can give some!

Task Description	Notes	Sign up by inserting 3 tildes (~~~)	% Done
Add links from topics and counties above to their corresponding wiki pages. This will help users and leaders keep tabs on progress as January unfolds.		Franjensen	100%
Find sources of Maryland maps online.	Ritcheymt (Michael Ritchey) would LOVE help from as many volunteers as possible finding Websites that have good Maryland map collections. Please contact Ritcheymt for details.	Garysturn
Add Maryland News & Events	The Maryland genealogical community needs volunteers to find genealogical news and events that relate to Maryland and link to them from the News and Events section of the Maryland Portal. For ideas on where to find news items, see Finding Genealogy News and Events within the United States.	Molliewog	100%
Add to the Did You Know section of the Maryland portal	The Did You Know section of the Maryland Portal is meant to lead users to the best, latest wiki articles and Web sites for Maryland research. This list changes continually like the Did You Know section on WikiPedia's home page.
Link to data sets in record search.	Go here for a description of the project.	DebbieBurnett
Link from Maryland pages to the major U.S. data sites.	To know which sites to include, the writer may refer to David Dilts' Major Databases for Beginning United States Research.
Link wiki to digitized books in the BYU Family History Archive.	Go here for a description of the project.	Jbillings
Copy and paste record content bullet lists from Research Guidance and/or SourceGuide (Pitts, Parkins)	RG and SG contain bullet lists which mention the types of information that can be gleaned from each type of U.S. records. Example: The What you are looking for section of the Research Guidance page "Alabama Federal Census Population Schedules, 1820 to 1920."	Rdhill
Need someone to act as a Maryland news and events "reporter" (also have him/her do the Did You Know section of the Maryland Portal)	To help authors do this task more easily, Fran Jensen created Finding Genealogy News and Events within the United States.

Maryland county pages to update

Task Description	Notes	Sign up by inserting 3 tildes (~~~)	% Done
Allegany
Anne Arundel
Baltimore
Baltimore (City)
Calvert
Caroline
Carroll
Cecil
Charles
Dorchester
Frederick		Debelisha
Garrett
Harford
Howard
Kent
Montgomery		Jeanrd
Prince George's
Queen Anne's
Somerset
St. Mary's
Talbot
Washington
Wicomico
Worcester		Diltsgd	20

Preliminary tasks for wiki veterans

Task Description	Notes	Sign up by inserting 3 tildes (~~~)	% Done
1. Create a repository template		Diltsgd	100
2. Create an example topic page for Maryland	Done! See Maryland Newspapers for an example of the types of headings and information we're currently adding to topics pages -- primarily pages about records or finding aids of a place.	Ritcheymt	100
3. Create an example county page for Maryland		Diltsgd	20
4. Create example repository pages for above		Diltsgd	100
5. Create barn raising explanation and invitation	Done! For an explanation of what a barn raising is, see Barn Raising on FamilySearch Wiki.	Ritcheymt	100
6. Put up this barn raising tasks list sign-up sheet	Done! (This page)	Diltsgd	100
7. Put up barn raising advertisements		Ritcheymt	50
8. Get volunteer cosmetic editor	A cosmetic editor simply checks the article to be sure there are no white spaces, or other problems regarding the 'look and feel' of a given article.	JamesAnderson
9. Get volunteer source footnotes champion
10. Get volunteer wiki trainer/mentor