FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject U.S. County Cemeteries Update

Purpose

Updating and standardizing the cemeteries tables for every county in the United States.

Contact Person

Heather Mecham

Task List

Task List

Sample Pages

Autauga County, Alabama Genealogy
Anchorage Municipality, Alaska Genealogy

Project Instructions

Part 1: Set up your sandbox

1. Select a county on the task list by putting your name in the name column.

2. Create a sandbox for this page.

3. Copy and paste the code below into the sandbox and click save.

{| style = "border:1px solid black; width:70%;"
|-
| colspan="2" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" style="border:1px solid black"| <center>'''Cemeteries of COUNTY NAME, STATE NAME''' online and in print</center>
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| width="25%" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" style="border:1px solid black" | <center>'''Tombstone Transcriptions Online'''</center>
|bgcolor="#F0F0F0" valign="top" style="border:1px solid black" | 
*[URL BillionGraves]
*[URL Find A Grave]
*[URL Interment.net]
*[URL USGW Tombstone Transcription Project] 
|-
| width="25%" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" style="border:1px solid black" | <center>'''Tombstone Transcriptions in Print''' ([[The Value of Cemetery Records in Print |Often more complete]])</center>
|bgcolor="#F0F0F0" style="border:1px solid black" valign="top" | 
* {{FHL|SUBJECT NUMBER|subject-id|disp=Family History Library}} 
* [URL WorldCat.org]
|-
| width="25%" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" style="border:1px solid black" |<center>'''List of Cemeteries in the County'''</center>
|bgcolor="#F0F0F0" style="border:1px solid black" valign="top" | 
*[URL Find A Grave]
*[https://billiongraves.com/search/cemetery BillionGraves]- enter in county and state in the search box. List of cemeteries is below the map.
*[URL FamilySearch Places] 
|-
| colspan="2" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" style="border:1px solid black"| <center>See '''[[STATE NAME Cemeteries]]''' for more information</center>
|}

4. Wherever you see the words COUNTY NAME in your sandbox, replace it with your county's name. Wherever you seed the words STATE NAME,replace it with the name of the state.

5. Click Save.

Part 2: Evaluate Information on the Wiki Page for Your County

1. Go to your county's cemeteries page in the Wiki and check existing county page for information to move over to the new page by clicking on each link.

2. Anything that is a bad link can be skipped. Bad links include those that are broken or do not have cemetery information.

3. All remaining links that still work and contain cemetery information can be used on the new page. They can be placed under the appropriate heading in the table in your sandbox.

4. Please place all links below what is already in the table, with a bullet point, the link and any explanation following. See the example below:

• Kempston Cemetery World War 1 and 2 Graves

Part 3: Gather Additional Resources

Gather and add additional resources using the sites listed below with instructions for each one. Any resource that is already in the table can be skipped.

Replace the Find A Grave Links

1. Go to Find A Grave.

2. Type in the name of the county in the cemetery location search box and click search.

3. Copy the URL.

4. Go back to your sandbox and find the heading "Tombstone Transcriptions Online." Look to the right of the heading where it says:

*[URL Find A Grave]

5. Highlight URL and paste the link you copied in place of URL. Make sure that there is a space and then the name of the link (Find A Grave) in between the open and close brackets.

This is an example of what the Find A Grave URL should look like: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/search?cemetery-name=&cemetery-loc=Bedfordshire%2C+England&only-with-cemeteries=cemOnly&locationId=state_4205 Find A Grave

6. Go back to Find A Grave.

7. Click cemeteries on the menu across the top.

8. Enter the county name in the cemetery location box.

9. Click the orange search button on the right.

10. Copy the URL.

11. Go back to your sandbox and find the heading "List of Cemeteries in the County" Look to the right of the heading where it says:

*[URL Find A Grave]

12. Highlight "URL" and paste the link you copied in its place. Make sure that there is a space and then the name of the link (Find A Grave) in between the open and close brackets.

Interment.net

1. Go to Interment.net.

2. Select your state and then county.

3. Find the heading that says "Tombstone Transcriptions Online."

4. Find the code you will be replacing. It will look like this.

*[URL Interment.net]

5. Copy the URL from the county page on Interment.net.

6. Paste in into your sandbox over "URL".

BillionGraves

1. Go to BillionGraves.

2. Click the blue button near the top right corner of the page that says "Search BillionGraves."

3. Enter in the name of your county and state and click search.

4. Copy the URL for the page.

5. Go back to your sandbox and find the heading "Tombstone Transcriptions Online."

6. Look for the code for BillionGraves in that section. See example below.

*[URL BillionGraves]

7. Replace "URL" with the BillionGraves URL you copied in step 4.

US GenWeb Archives Transcription Project

1. Go to US GenWeb Archives

2. Click on the table of contents for your state.

3. Click on or find your county.

4. Copy the URL.

5. Go back to the sandbox and find the heading that says "Tombstone Transcriptions Online".

6. Look to the left of the heading, where it says:

 [URL USGW Tombstone Transcription project] 

7. Highlight where it says URL and paste the link. Make sure there is a space betwee the link and the name of the link.

Family History Library Subject Search

1. Go to the Family History Library Catalog.

2. Type the name of your county in the search box and click search.

3. Find cemeteries in the search results and click it.

4. Click one of the links to the cemetery catalog entries. 5. From the catalog entry, find the heading "Subjects: Locality Subjects".

6. Under the subjects heading, you will find a link that says United States, YOUR STATE, YOUR COUNTY - Cemeteries. Click the link. See image below.



7. This takes you to search results that only include cemetery records for your county.

8. Find and copy the subject number for the cemeteries in the county. See image below for example.



9. Go to the "Tombstone Transcriptions in Print" heading.

10. You will use a template to place the link. See example below.

{{FHL|SUBJECT NUMBER|subject-id|disp=Family History Library}}

11. Find the template in the table in the sandbox under the heading "Tombstone Transcriptions in Print." 12. Replace the words SUBJECT NUMBER with the subject number you copied in step 8.

WorldCat Subject Search

1. Go to WorldCat.org.

2. Type the name of your county in the search box, followed by "county cemetery records".

3. Copy the URL.

4. Find the heading "Tombstones Transcriptions in Print".

5. Find the place for the link that says:

 [URL Worldcat.org]

6. Highlight where it says URL and paste the link. Make sure there is a space between the link and the name of the link.

Add Link for FamilySearch Places

1. Go to FamilySearch Places

2. Type the name of your county in the search box.

3. Select the top search result.

4. Click the blue target-shaped icon next to county name.

5. Click the link that says "add filter".

6. Type cemetery into the "place type" search box and select cemetery.

7. Copy the URL.

8. Go back to your sandbox and find the heading "List of Cemeteries in the County." Look below the heading where it says:

*[URL FamilySearch Places]

5. Highlight URL and paste the link you copied in place of URL. Make sure that there is a space and then the name of the link (FamilySearch Places) in between the open and close brackets.

6. Click show preview and double-check your work.

7. Click save.

Part 4: Check Below the Cemeteries Table for More Resources

1. Go to your county's Wiki page.

2. Look below the cemeteries table for any other cemetery resources.

3. Evaluate each link to determine if it should be moved to the new table in your sandbox.

• Links already in the table in your sandbox can be deleted.
• Anything that does not link to cemetery information can be deleted.
• Any broken links can be deleted.

4. Move any resources left over to your sandbox, placing them with the appropriate heading.

5. Click save.

6. Put the date in the task list and add the link to your sandbox to the sandbox column.

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