WikiProject:PA County Church Records Pages

Current Projects Page

Pennsylvania County Church Records Pages

Project Leader

Danielle

Purpose

Church records are an important substitute record in Pennsylvania because the lack of vital records being kept before 1880. Thus, there are many resources and the Church Records section on the county pages are too large. We are going to create subpages and reformat the section.

Part 1: Create pages
Part 2: Add Databases from FS Catalog
Part 3: Add New Databases to Applicable Counties

Task List

• [ Task List]

Part 1- Create Pages

Step One - Choose a County Page to Create

• Select a county from the [ Task List] and click on the link to create the Wiki page.
  

Step Two - Add Template to New Page

• Copy the following wikitext and add it to the page.

{{breadcrumb
| link1=[[United States Genealogy|United States]]
| link2= [[Pennsylvania, United States Genealogy|Pennsylvania]]
| link3=[[COUNTYNAME County, Pennsylvania Genealogy|COUNTYNAME County]]
| link4=
| link5=[[COUNTYNAME County, Pennsylvania Church Records|COUNTYNAME County, Pennsylvania Church Records]]
}}
==COUNTYNAME County, Pennsylvania Church Records==
{{PA Church Intro|Adams}}
===Online Resources===
====List of Churches and Church Parishes in COUNTYNAME County====
*'''[REPLACEWITHPLACESURL FamilySearch Places]''' <br>

====General Databases with Several Denominations====

====Databases by Denomination====
=====Catholic Church=====

=====Dutch Reformed Church=====

=====Episcopal Church=====

=====Lutheran Church=====

=====Methodist Church=====

=====Presbyterian Church=====

=====Reformed Church=====

(PUT IMAGE OF DENOMINATIONS FOR COUNTY HERE)
===History of Churches in Adams County===
===Historical Sketches on Adams County Churches===
===Archives, Libraries, and Societies with Church Records===

[[Category:COUNTYNAME County, Pennsylvania]][[Category:Pennsylvania, United States]]

Step Three - Add County Name to the Page

• Click on Ctrl + F and type in COUNTYNAME to locate the various places on the page that should be replaced with the county name you are working on.
  

Step Four - Move the Information From County Page

• Go back to the county wiki page and start transferring over information into the new template on your new page.

• Make sure to:

• Change REPLACEWITHPLACESURL with the correct URL.
• Replace (PUT IMAGE OF DENOMINATIONS FOR COUNTY HERE) with the link for the pie chart. Make the pie chart a little larger if necessary.

Step Five - Add Additional Headers

• Add any necessary denomination headers to cover all the information from the county page. Leave on headers even if they are blank.
  

• Add or change headers to fit the needs of the information you have on the county page. For example, if there is no historical sketches for this county, take the header off the page.

Step Six - Example

• To assist in seeing how the information should change, here is a link to the previous Church Records section for Adams County.
• This is the the link to the new Adams County Church Records page: Adams County, Pennsylvania Church Records

Step Seven - Preview and Save the Page

• Once you have moved over all the information, preview the page to make sure all the links work and it looks correct.
  

• Copy and paste the following in the Summery line:

Create new county church records page

Part 3 - Add New Databases to Applicable Counties

• 1520-1999 Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
• 1620-1991 Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Congregational Records, 1620-1991 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
• 1856-1971 Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Deaths and Burials, 1856-1971 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
• 1512-1989 Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1512-1989 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

FamilySearch Catalog (FS Catalog); formerly called, Family History Library Catalog (FHLC)

To access available information, first log into FamilySearch.