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Welcome to the England barn raising page! A wiki barn raising is a short, focused community effort to create or revise content relating to a single topic such as "genealogical research in England." The following tasks need to be accomplished during the England barn raising in February 2009. Please volunteer to complete one or more tasks by adding your name to this list. To add your name, log in, click Edit, insert three tildes (~ ~ ~) in the 'sign up...' column (the third column below) across from the task you wish to help out on, go down to the bottom of the editing page, and click 'Save Page', to save the page. '''More than one person may sign up to work on a given task'''. That way, those that sign up for a task can also communicate with each other on what they are doing.<br>  
Welcome to the England barn raising page! A wiki barn raising is a short, focused community effort to create or revise content relating to a single topic such as "genealogical research in England." The following tasks need to be accomplished during the England barn raising in February 2009. Please volunteer to complete one or more tasks by adding your name to this list. To add your name, log in, click Edit, insert three tildes (<nowiki>~~~</nowiki>) in the 'sign up...' column (the third column below) across from the task you wish to help out on, go down to the bottom of the editing page, and click 'Save Page', to save the page. '''More than one person may sign up to work on a given task'''. That way, those that sign up for a task can also communicate with each other on what they are doing.<br>  


== Contents<br>  ==
== Contents<br>  ==
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Headings that prompt us to include a complete set of information in an article can be found at FamilySearch Wiki:Headings for Articles about Records. For an example of these headings in action, see the&nbsp;?? page (and its discussion page). For an example of a good repository page see the&nbsp;?? page.<br>  
Headings that prompt us to include a complete set of information in an article can be found at FamilySearch Wiki:Headings for Articles about Records. For an example of these headings in action, see the&nbsp;?? page (and its discussion page). For an example of a good repository page see the&nbsp;?? page.<br>  


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| [[England Archives and Libraries|Archives and Libraries]]
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| width="14%" | [[User:Kimleavitt|Kimleavitt]]<br>
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| [[England Bible Records|Bible Records]]
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| [[England Bibliography|Bibliography]]
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| [[England Biography|Biographies]]
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| [[England Cemeteries|Cemeteries]]
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| [[England Census|Census]]
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| [[England Church Records|Church Records]]
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| [[England Court Records|Court Records]]
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| [[Maryland Directories|Directories]]
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| [[England Emigration and Immigration|Emigration and Immigration]]
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| [[England Gazetteers|Gazetteers]]
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| [[Maryland Genealogy|Genealogy]]
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| [[England History|History]]
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| [[Maryland Land and Property|Land and Property]]
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| [[England Maps|Maps]]
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| [[England Military Records|Military Records]]
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| [[Maryland Minorities|Minorities]]
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| width="14%" | <br>[[User:Healeyje|healeyje]]
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| [[England Naturalization and Citizenship|Naturalization and Citizenship]]
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| [[England Newspapers|Newspapers]]
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| width="14%" | <br>[[User:Ritcheymt|Ritcheymt]]
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| [[Maryland Periodicals|Periodicals]]
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| [[England Probate Records|Probate Records]]
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| [[England Public Records|Public Records]]
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| [[Maryland Societies|Societies]]
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| [[England Taxation|Taxation]]
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| [[Maryland Vital Records|Vital Records]]
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| [[England Voting Registers|Voting Registers]]
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== Simple tasks  ==
 
Potentially, a large number of volunteers in the community may feel unqualified to write a how to article on a subject of interest, but they are available to do simple tasks that support the writing of articles. This is the place to list and/or volunteer for those tasks! If you're a writer, here's where you can get some help. If you're a volunteer or community member, here's where you can give some!
 
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| Add links from topics and counties above to their&nbsp;corresponding&nbsp;wiki pages. This will help users and leaders keep tabs on progress as January unfolds.
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| Find sources of England maps online.
| width="38%" | [[User:Ritcheymt|Ritcheymt]] (Michael Ritchey) would LOVE&nbsp;help from as many volunteers as possible finding Websites that have good Maryland map collections. Please contact&nbsp;[[User:Ritcheymt|Ritcheymt]]&nbsp;for details.
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| Add England News &amp; Events
| width="38%" | The England genealogical community needs volunteers to find genealogical news and events that relate to England and link to them from the News and Events section of the [[Portal:England|England Portal]]. For ideas on where to find news items, see&nbsp;[[Finding Genealogy News and Events within the United States|Finding Genealogy News and Events within the United States]].
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| Add to the Did You Know section of the [[Portal:England|England portal]]
| width="38%" | The ''Did You Know ''section of the [[Portal:England|England Portal]] is meant to lead users to the best, latest&nbsp;wiki articles and Web sites for England research. This list changes continually like the ''Did You Know ''section on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page WikiPedia's] home page.
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| [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Linking to Record Search|Link to data sets in record search]].
| Go [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Linking to Record Search|here]] for a description of the project.
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| Link from England pages to the major UK data sites.
| To know which sites to include, the writer may refer to ??.
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| [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Linking to Books in the BYU Family History Archives|Link wiki to digitized books in the BYU Family History Archive]].
| Go [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Linking to Books in the BYU Family History Archives|here]] for a description of the project.
| &nbsp;&nbsp; [[User:Jbillings|Jbillings]]  
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| Copy&nbsp;and paste&nbsp;record content bullet lists from [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/RG/frameset_rg.asp Research Guidance]&nbsp;and/or [http://productsupport.familysearch.org/supportroot/Eng/Frameset_Products.asp?ReqPg=EntryDetails.asp&entryid=Q100151797800023&version=1&FAQ=FHSourceGuide&Product=FHSG&Color=green&DisplayName=Family+History+SourceGuide SourceGuide] 
| RG and SG contain bullet lists which mention the types of information that can be gleaned from each type of U.S. records. Example: The '''What you are looking for''' section of the ''Research Guidance ''page "[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/RG/frameset_rg.asp?Dest=G&Aid=576&Gid=0&Sid=9787&Sisgid=8731&Lid=356&Did=506&Guide=AL_BMT3_PopulationSchedules1790-1920.asp&Juris1=356&Event=Birth&Year=506&Gloss=Census%20Population%20Schedule&Sub=Census&Tab=Search&Entry=3&Loc=Alabama%2C%20United%20States Alabama&nbsp;Federal Census Population Schedules, 1820 to 1920]."
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| Need&nbsp;someone to act as a [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject England News and Events|England&nbsp;news and events "reporter"]] (also have him/her do the Did You Know section of the England Portal)
| To help authors do this task more easily, Fran Jensen created&nbsp;[[Finding Genealogy News and Events within the United States|Finding Genealogy News and Events within the United States]].
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== England county pages to update<br>  ==
 
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| [[Bedfordshire, England|Bedford]]
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| [[Berkshire, England|Berkshire]]
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| [[Buckinghamshire, England|Buckingham]]
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| [[Cambridgeshire, England|Cambridge]]
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| [[Cheshire, England|Cheshire]]
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| [[Cornwall, England|Cornwall]]
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| [[Cumberland, England|Cumberland]]
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| [[Derbyshire, England|Derbyshire]]
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| [[Devonshire, England|Devonshire]]
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| [[Dorset, England|Dorset]]
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| [[Durham, England|Durham]]
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| [[Essex, England|Essex]]
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| [[Gloucestershire, England|Gloucestershire]]
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| [[Hampshire, England|Hampshire]]
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| [[Hereford, England|Hereford]]
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| [[Hertford, England|Hertford]]
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| [[Huntingdon, England|Huntingdon]]
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| [[Kent, England|Kent]]
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| [[Lancashire, England|Lancashire]]
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| [[Leicestershire, England|Leicestershire]]
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| [[Lincolnshire, England|Lincolnshire]]
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| [[London, England|London]]
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| [[Middlesex, England|Middlesex]]
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| [[Norfolk, England|Norfolk]]
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| [[Northamptonshire, England|Northamptonshire]]
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| [[Northumberland, England|Northumberland]]
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| [[Nottinghamshire, England|Nottingham]]
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| [[Oxfordshire, England|Oxford]]
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| [[Rutland, England|Rutland]]
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| [[Shropshire, England|Shropshire]]
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| [[Somerset, England|Somerset]]
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| [[Staffordshire, England|Staffordshire]]
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| [[Suffolk, England|Suffolk]]
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| [[Surrey, England|Surrey]]
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| [[Sussex, England|Sussex]]
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| [[Warwickshire, England|Warwickshire]]
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| [[Westmoreland, England|Westmoreland]]
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| [[Wiltshire, England|Wiltshire]]
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| [[Worcestershire, England|Worcestershire]]
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| [[Yorkshire, England|Yorkshire]]
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== Preliminary tasks for wiki veterans  ==
 
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| valign="middle" align="center" | '''Sign up by inserting 3 tildes (<nowiki>~~~</nowiki>)'''
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| 1. Create a repository template<br>
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| 2. Create an example topic page for England<br>
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| 3. Create an example county page for Maryland<br>
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| width="14%" | [[User:Diltsgd|Diltsgd]]<br>
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| 4. Create example repository pages for above<br>
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| 5. Create barn raising explanation and invitation <br>
| width="38%" | Done! For an explanation of what a barn raising is, see [[Barn Raising on FamilySearch Wiki|Barn Raising on FamilySearch Wiki]].<br>
| width="14%" | [[User:Ritcheymt|Ritcheymt]]<br>
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| 6. Put up this barn raising tasks list sign-up sheet<br>
| width="38%" | Prelimary draft done (This page)<br>
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| 7. Put up barn raising advertisements <br>
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| 8. Get volunteer cosmetic editor
| width="38%" | A cosmetic editor simply checks the article&nbsp;to be sure there are&nbsp;no white spaces, or other&nbsp;problems regarding&nbsp;the 'look and feel' of a given article.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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| 9. Get volunteer source footnotes champion
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| 10. Get volunteer wiki trainer/mentor
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