Useful Information to Add to a Place Portal

The following are ideas concerning useful information you might add to pages about places.

1. Links to pages about major ethnic groups of the area
2. Events
3. Links to non-English versions of the page
4. Research Tools
5. 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 Family History Library Catalog.)
6. Minimalist/simple/mandatory information rather than general information. (Exclude information that doesn't directly relate to genealogical research.)
7. Links to other helpful/relevant pages in Wiki
8. Strategy documents that help users select the right type of record to fulfill a research objective
9. Links to major finding aids, such as gazetteers
10. Links to major reference tools, such as translation helps or handwriting guides
11. Link to the forum which covers the area
12. Links to information on how to write narratives
13. Links to local histories
14. Timelines
15. Use of Timelines (destruction, natural disasters, etc..)
16. Genealogical/Historical events in media
17. Images
18. Events affecting jurisdictions and records
19. Events affecting numerous deaths or migrations
20. Laws affecting marriages, migrations, adoption, voting, record format, or record access
21. Inventions affecting travel, migrations, etc., including delay between invention creation and implementation (such as the Utah railroad)
22. Epidemics
23. Wars and drafts
24. Natural disasters
25. Migration routes per time period
26. How to make one category a subcategory of another