FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject England

Welcome to the England 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 "getting started with genealogical research in England." The following tasks need to be accomplished during the England barn raising in February 2009. Please volunteer to complete one or more tasks by adding your name to this list. To add your name:

1. log in
2. click Edit
3. input three tildes (~~~) in the 'sign up...' column (the third column below) across from the task you wish to work on (Do not type your name--the three tildes will automatically insert your username if you are logged in)

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.

England Pages to Update as Part of the Barn Raising

Some of these articles came from the old England Research outline and need to be updated.  This first table lists those topics that are part of this phase of the barn raising. 

Task Description	Notes	Sign up by inserting 3 tildes (~~~)	% Done
England four major record types (next four lines): width="63%" |
Census
Church Records
Civil Registration
Probate Records
General Pages to Create from Scratch:
Getting Started	Can be many articles; do essential ones first.	Anne
Major Websites for English Research (or similar title)

Simple tasks

Potentially, a large number of volunteers in the community may feel unqualified to write a 'how to' article on a subject of interest, but they 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 volunteer 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 to their corresponding wiki pages. This will help users and leaders keep tabs on progress as February unfolds.
Find sources of England maps online.
Add England News & Events to the Portal page	The England genealogical community needs volunteers to find genealogical news and events that relate to England and link to them from the News and Events section of the England Portal. For ideas on where to find news items, see Finding Genealogy News and Events within the United States.
Add to the Did You Know section of the England portal	The Did You Know section of the England Portal is meant to lead users to the best, latest wiki articles and Web sites for England 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.
Link from England pages to the major UK data sites.	To know which sites to include, the writer may refer to ??.
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	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."
Need someone to act as a England news and events "reporter" (also have him/her do the Did You Know section of the England Portal)	To help authors do this task more easily, Fran Jensen created Finding Genealogy News and Events within the United States.

Preliminary tasks for wiki veterans

Task Description	Notes	Sign up by inserting 3 tildes (~~~)	% Done
1. Create a repository template
2. Create an example topic page for England
3. Create an example county page for England			20
4. Create example repository pages for above
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	Prelimary draft done (This page)	Alanm	60
7. Put up barn raising advertisements
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

Other England Pages to Update

Many of these articles came from the old England Research outline and need to be updated.  This table lists all topics for all phases of England barn raisings. They are listed here to give you the opportunity to take a task even if all of those above are taken or none of them meet your interests. You may add tasks you think are needed or add a note to one you think is not needed for England.

Task Description	Notes	Sign up by inserting 3 tildes (~~~)	% Done
Archives and Libraries
Big City Research
Biographies
Cemeteries
Court Records		Anne
Directories
Emigration and Immigration
Gazetteers
Genealogy
Handwriting
Heraldry
Church History
Historical Geography
History
Land and Property		Anne
Language and Languages
Manors
Maps
Merchant Marine
Military Records
Minorities
Naturalization and Citizenship
Newspapers
Nobility
Periodicals
Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.
Societies
Taxation
Visitations, Heraldic
Vital Records - see Civil Registration
Voting Registers			England county pages to update These pages should be written during the second phase of the barn raising. Task Description Notes Sign up by inserting 3 tildes (~~~) % Done Bedford Berkshire Buckingham Cambridge Cheshire Cornwall Cumberland Derbyshire Devonshire Dorset Durham Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hereford Hertford Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Middlesex Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Oxford Rutland Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Warwickshire Westmoreland Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire