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 The aim should be to cater for an international beginner readership as well as the experienced researcher. It is also useful to locate other faiths within a Church of England parish boundary. The Church records section on the page can then develop description of the archive holding the deposited records or indicate if the records are still held in the parish by the incumbent
-==== Resources section  ====
+=== Resources section  ===
 A link to Family History Library catalogue may fit well in this section. {{notice|'''NOTE:''' This is best acomplished using a subject search link such as {{FHL|England%2C+Suffolk%2C+Metfield|subject|disp=Metfield}}  see example [[Metfield, Suffolk]].  The code can be copied and pasted, then it is just a matter of replacing 'Metfield' in the code with any other Suffolk Parish.  To change counties the 'Suffolk' part of the code would have to be replaced with the county the parish is in.}}
+==== Section Headings  ====
-However the Genealogical Society of Utah microfilm or digital images may represent only a small part of record sources held in archives in various locations. The parish registers and other parish records ( Vestry Meetings minutes; local census material; graveyard maps and lists of burial plots) may remain in either parish or Diocesan registry. Bishop's Transcripts may need explanation as they may have changed location over the centuries.
+'''Add section headings as needed''' and subheadings; Add any section heading for material you want to add or use existing headings
+*Civil Registration
-The ultimate aim is to create a means for any reader to identify how they can search the records either online in an Online Parish Clerk Transcript, images at an archive site (Lincolnshire: Lincs to the past) or the reference in a county archive for both parish and diocese. It is dangerous to assume that the searcher has access to the Family History Library or any of the Branch FamilySearch local church based facilities or is in a position to undertake research personally. If possible an indication of the arrangement of original surviving records and condition can be offered. [[Downe, Kent]] offers such descriptions.
+*Church History
+*Church Records - Example: Genealogical Society of Utah microfilm or digital images may represent only a small part of record sources held in archives in various locations. If possible an indication of the arrangement of original surviving records and condition can be offered. [[Downe, Kent]] offers such descriptions.
+**Nonconformist Records
+*Census Records
+**Statistical Census Data
+*History
+**Nineteenth Century
+**Twentieth century
+*Probate Records
+*Maps & Gazetteers
+*Websites
 ==== Census records  ====