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<span style="font-size:16pt">Featured articles in FamilySearch Wiki</span> [[Image:Cscr-featured.png|left|50px|This star symbolizes the featured content on FamilySearch Wiki.]] Featured articles are considered to be the best articles in FamilySearch Wiki. There are '''{{formatnum: <img _fck_mw_onlyinclude="true" _fckrealelement="3" _fckfakelement="true" src="https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/extensions/FCKeditor/fckeditor/editor/images/spacer.gif" class="FCK__MWOnlyinclude">}}''' featured articles out of {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles on the English FamilySearch Wiki. Thus, about one in {{formatnum: {{rounddown|{{#expr: {{NUMBEROFARTICLES:R}} / {{FA number}}}}|-1}}}} articles is listed here. Articles that no longer meet the criteria can be proposed for improvement or removal at [[FamilySearch Wiki:Featured article review|featured article review]].  
[[File:Cscr-featured.png|left|50px|This star symbolizes the featured content on FamilySearch Wiki.]]
 
Featured articles are considered to be the best articles in FamilySearch Wiki.  
A small bronze star icon ([[Image:Featured article star.png|15px|This star symbolizes the featured content on FamilySearch Wiki.]]) on the top right corner of an article's page indicates that the article is featured.
There are '''{{formatnum: <onlyinclude>{{FA number}}</onlyinclude>}}''' featured articles out of {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles on the English FamilySearch Wiki. Thus, about one in {{formatnum: {{rounddown|{{#expr: {{NUMBEROFARTICLES:R}} / {{FA number}}}}|-1}}}} articles is listed here. Articles that no longer meet the criteria can be proposed for improvement or removal at [[FamilySearch Wiki:Featured article review|featured article review]].   
 
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{{Featured content}}
 
=== Please Recommend Future Featured Articles!  ===
 
Have you seen a great page on the Wiki and want others to be aware of it? You may [[Nominate a featured wiki page|nominate]] favorite pages to be featured on the Home Page.&nbsp;
 
== Featured Articles  ==
 
=== August 2011  ===
 
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{{FA
| article = England Probate Records
| image = Reading of a Will.jpg
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Japan
| linkwords = Japan
| image = Cliff in Okinawa.jpg
}}
 
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{{FA
| article = Barbados
| image = Barbados beach.jpg
}}
 
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{{FA
| article = Australia
| image = Australian Flag.jpg
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{{FA
| article = Randolph County, Illinois
| image = Edmund Randolph.jpg
}}
 
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{| width="100%" style="text-align: center" class="FCK__ShowTableBorders"
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{{FA
| article = British Isles
| image = 250px-British Isles Euler diagram svg.png
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{{FA
| article = American Indians in the Civil War
| image = Cherokee Confederates Reunion.gif
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Brazil
| image = Brazil flag map.PNG
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = African American Military Records
| image = Sgt Major Christian Fleetwood.jpg
}}
 
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{{FA
| article = Anderson County, Kentucky
| image = Anderson County, Kentucky Couthouse.JPG
}}
 
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{| width="100%" style="text-align: center" class="FCK__ShowTableBorders"
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{{FA
| article = Solving Tough Research Problems—Overcoming Brick Walls
| image = Brick wall 2494.jpg
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Italy Civil Registration- Vital Records
| image =Lourdes 2011-05-24 22-25-32.jpg
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = German Research on the Internet - an Overview -complete handout
| image =Germany-01.jpg
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Champaign County, Illinois
| image = Champaign County Courthouse.gif
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = How to Cite FamilySearch Collections
| image = Collections.jpg
}}
 
|}
 
{| width="100%" style="text-align: center" class="FCK__ShowTableBorders"
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| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Guessing the Easiest to Research Person and Event
| image = Question mark with feet.jpg
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article =Croatia
| image =Dubrovnik city.jpg
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = German Research on the Internet - an Overview -complete handout
| image =Germany-01.jpg
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Indians of Idaho
| image = Apsaroke horse trappings.jpg
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA|
 
| article = WikiProject -- Tribal Prototype
| linkwords =Tribal Prototype
| image =Siksika or Blackfoot -Iron-Breast-and-family.jpg
}}
 
|}
 
=== July 2011  ===
 
{| width="100%" style="text-align: center" class="FCK__ShowTableBorders"
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{{FA
| article = FamilySearch Community Tools
| image = Family_Tech.png
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Texas Birth Records (FamilySearch Historical Collections)
| linkwords = Texas Birth Records (FSHC)
| image = Texas_Birth_Records_(10-0045)_Example_2_DGS.jpg
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = United States
| image = Liberty-statue-from-below.jpg
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Panama
| image = Panama Flag.PNG
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Hawaii Vital Records
| image = Vital Records.jpg
}}
 
|}
 
{| width="100%" style="text-align: center" class="FCK__ShowTableBorders"
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| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Georgia Military Records
| image = Chickamauga, Georgia Battle.jpg
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Switzerland
| image = Walkersbrunn-Kirche-Frontansicht-16-05-2005.jpg
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Gem County, Idaho
| image = Gem upclose.gif
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Beginning United States Civil War Research
| image = Battle of Gettysburg by Currier and Ives.png
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Germans from Russia
| image = Catharine-II.jpg
}}
 
|}
 
{| width="100%" style="text-align: center" class="FCK__ShowTableBorders"
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| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Poland
| image = Koszecin.jpg
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = United States History
| image = Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States.png
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Research Logs
| image = Log15.png
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Involve Children and Youth in Family History
| image = Lesson 3 Apple tree.jpg
 
}}
 
|}
 
{| width="100%" style="text-align: center" class="FCK__ShowTableBorders"
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| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = FamilySearch Research Wiki: Why I Participate
| image = NGS2010 125.png
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Tracing LDS Ancestors
| linkwords = Tracing LDS Ancestors
| image = Pioneers Crossing the Plains of Nebraska by C-1-.C.A. Christensen.png
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates (FamilySearch Historical Records)
| image = Russia St. Petersburg Lutheran Church Records Marriage.jpg
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Illinois
| image = Illinois.png
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Scotland
| image = Flag of Scotland.jpg
}}
 
|}
 
{| width="100%" style="text-align: center" class="FCK__ShowTableBorders"
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| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Document AS YOU GO!
| image = Writing in journal.jpg
}}
 
|}
 
=== June 2011  ===
 
{| width="100%" style="text-align: center" class="FCK__ShowTableBorders"
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| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Ireland Civil Registration
| image = Dublin Four Courts and the Liffy River.jpg
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Vanuatu
| image = New Caledonia and Vanuatu map.png
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Arizona
| image = Arizona flag.png
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = India
| image = Hindu Pilgrimage Sites Map.JPG
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Family History Activities for Youth
| image = SOS_FAMILY.jpg
}}
 
|}
 
=== May 2011  ===
 
{| width="100%" style="text-align: center" class="FCK__ShowTableBorders"
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| width="50%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Gretna Greens in the United States
| image = USGretnaGreens.png
}}
 
| width="50%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Haller's Army
| image = Polish.jpg
}}
 
|}
 
=== April 2011  ===
 
{| width="100%" style="text-align: center" class="FCK__ShowTableBorders"
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| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = South Carolina in the Civil War
| image = Fort sumter 1861 Battle.jpg
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865
| image = Vicksburg h7655k.jpg
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = 71st Regiment, Illinois Infantry
| image = Colour-bearers of the 71st Illinois.jpg
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = 124th Regiment, New York Infantry
| image = 124 goshen ny infantry regiment monument.jpg
}}
 
| width="20%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = United States Colored Troops in the Civil War
| image = 4th United States Colored Infantry.jpg
}}
 
|}
 
=== March 2011  ===
 
{{FA
| article = South Carolina
| image = South Carolina oaks.jpg
}}
 
=== August 2010 ===
 
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| width="25%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Family History Library
| image = LDS genealogy library slc utah.jpg
}}
 
| width="25%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Tennessee
| image = Tennessee flag.png
}}
 
| width="25%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Indians of North America
| linkwords = American Indians
| image = Siksika or Blackfoot -Iron-Breast-and-family.jpg
}}
 
| width="25%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = The Netherlands
| image = William of Orange1580.jpg
}}
 
|}
 
=== June 2010  ===
 
{| width="100%" style="text-align: center" class="FCK__ShowTableBorders"
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| width="33%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Denmark
| image = Slaget-ved-Lyndanissse.jpg
}}
 
| width="33%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = England
| image = Westminster_Palace_at_sunset.jpg
}}
 
| width="33%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Alabama Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
| image = Vital Records.jpg
}}


A small bronze star icon ([[File:Featured article star.png|15px|This star symbolizes the featured content on FamilySearch Wiki.]]) on the top right corner of an article's page indicates that the article is featured.
| style="width:30%; vertical-align:top; padding:0.5em 0.5em 0em 0.5em; border:1px solid #A3B1BF; background-color:#E6F2FF" |
{{Featured content|margin-left=0}}
|}
|}
=== April 2010  ===
{| width="100%" style="text-align: center" class="FCK__ShowTableBorders"
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| width="25%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Indians of Montana
| image = Siksika or Blackfoot -Iron-Breast-and-family.jpg
}}
| width="25%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Wales
| image = Y ddraig goch.png
}}
| width="25%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = China
| image = China.gif
}}
| width="25%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Cheshire Parishes
| linkwords = Cheshire England Parishes
| image = St_Marys_Church_Acton_Cheshire.jpg
}}
|}
=== February 2010  ===
{| width="100%" style="text-align: center" class="FCK__ShowTableBorders"
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| width="30%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Germany
| image = Brandenburger Tor Blaue Stunde.jpg
}}
| width="30%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = New York Census
| image = Liberty-statue-from-below.jpg
}}
| width="30%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Pacific Island Guide to Family History Research
| linkwords = Pacific Island Guide to Research
| image = Pacific island scene.jpg
}}
|}
=== January 2010  ===
{| width="100%" style="text-align: center" class="FCK__ShowTableBorders"
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| width="30%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Maryland History
| image = MD Ship The Dove.png
| orientation = portrait
}}
| width="30%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = US Military Old Soldiers Home Records
| image = Kentucky Confederate Home.jpg
}}
| width="30%" style="vertical-align: top" |
{{FA
| article = Czech Republic
| image = Prague.jpg
}}
|}
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Featured content
Featured articles
Featured contributors
Featured WikiProjects
Featured article process
Featured article committee
Featured article criteria
Featured article candidates
Featured article review

Please Recommend Future Featured Articles![edit | edit source]

Have you seen a great page on the Wiki and want others to be aware of it? You may nominate favorite pages to be featured on the Home Page. 

Featured Articles[edit | edit source]

August 2011[edit | edit source]

Reading of a Will.jpg
England Probate Records


Cliff in Okinawa.jpg
Japan


Barbados beach.jpg
Barbados


Australian Flag.jpg
Australia


Edmund Randolph.jpg
Randolph County, Illinois


250px-British Isles Euler diagram svg.png
British Isles


Cherokee Confederates Reunion.gif
American Indians in the Civil War


Brazil flag map.PNG
Brazil


Sgt Major Christian Fleetwood.jpg
African American Military Records


Anderson County, Kentucky Couthouse.JPG
Anderson County, Kentucky


Brick wall 2494.jpg
Solving Tough Research Problems—Overcoming Brick Walls


Lourdes 2011-05-24 22-25-32.jpg
Italy Civil Registration- Vital Records


Germany-01.jpg
German Research on the Internet - an Overview -complete handout


Champaign County Courthouse.gif
Champaign County, Illinois


Collections.jpg
How to Cite FamilySearch Collections


Question mark with feet.jpg
Guessing the Easiest to Research Person and Event


Dubrovnik city.jpg
Croatia


Germany-01.jpg
German Research on the Internet - an Overview -complete handout


Apsaroke horse trappings.jpg
Indians of Idaho


Siksika or Blackfoot -Iron-Breast-and-family.jpg
Tribal Prototype


July 2011[edit | edit source]

Family Tech.png
FamilySearch Community Tools


Texas Birth Records (10-0045) Example 2 DGS.jpg
Texas Birth Records (FSHC)


Liberty-statue-from-below.jpg
United States


Panama Flag.PNG
Panama


Vital Records.jpg
Hawaii Vital Records


Chickamauga, Georgia Battle.jpg
Georgia Military Records


Walkersbrunn-Kirche-Frontansicht-16-05-2005.jpg
Switzerland


Gem upclose.gif
Gem County, Idaho


Battle of Gettysburg by Currier and Ives.png
Beginning United States Civil War Research


Catharine-II.jpg
Germans from Russia


Koszecin.jpg
Poland


Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States.png
United States History


Log15.png
Research Logs


Lesson 3 Apple tree.jpg
Involve Children and Youth in Family History


NGS2010 125.png
FamilySearch Research Wiki: Why I Participate


Pioneers Crossing the Plains of Nebraska by C-1-.C.A. Christensen.png
Tracing LDS Ancestors


Russia St. Petersburg Lutheran Church Records Marriage.jpg
Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates (FamilySearch Historical Records)


Illinois.png
Illinois


Flag of Scotland.jpg
Scotland


Writing in journal.jpg
Document AS YOU GO!


June 2011[edit | edit source]

Dublin Four Courts and the Liffy River.jpg
Ireland Civil Registration


New Caledonia and Vanuatu map.png
Vanuatu


Arizona flag.png
Arizona


Hindu Pilgrimage Sites Map.JPG
India


SOS FAMILY.jpg
Family History Activities for Youth


May 2011[edit | edit source]

USGretnaGreens.png
Gretna Greens in the United States


Polish.jpg
Haller's Army


April 2011[edit | edit source]

Fort sumter 1861 Battle.jpg
South Carolina in the Civil War


Vicksburg h7655k.jpg
United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865


Colour-bearers of the 71st Illinois.jpg
71st Regiment, Illinois Infantry


124 goshen ny infantry regiment monument.jpg
124th Regiment, New York Infantry


4th United States Colored Infantry.jpg
United States Colored Troops in the Civil War


March 2011[edit | edit source]

South Carolina oaks.jpg
South Carolina


August 2010[edit | edit source]

File:LDS genealogy library slc utah.jpg
Family History Library


Tennessee flag.png
Tennessee


Siksika or Blackfoot -Iron-Breast-and-family.jpg
American Indians


William of Orange1580.jpg
The Netherlands


June 2010[edit | edit source]

Slaget-ved-Lyndanissse.jpg
Denmark


Westminster Palace at sunset.jpg
England


Vital Records.jpg
Alabama Birth, Marriage, and Death Records


April 2010[edit | edit source]

Siksika or Blackfoot -Iron-Breast-and-family.jpg
Indians of Montana


Y ddraig goch.png
Wales


China.gif
China


St Marys Church Acton Cheshire.jpg
Cheshire England Parishes


February 2010[edit | edit source]

Brandenburger Tor Blaue Stunde.jpg
Germany


Liberty-statue-from-below.jpg
New York Census


Pacific island scene.jpg
Pacific Island Guide to Research


January 2010[edit | edit source]

MD Ship The Dove.png
Maryland History


Kentucky Confederate Home.jpg
US Military Old Soldiers Home Records


Prague.jpg
Czech Republic