FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Professional Genealogists: Difference between revisions

== Purpose ==

This is a project to help FamilySearch patrons find professional genealogists they can hire to help them find their ancestors. 

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#Add résumé items to your user page. Click Save frequently to avoid system timeouts!  

 

Once you have a FamilySearch account, visit the wiki and login. Click Personal Tools and then click your username under that. This will bring you to your user page. Most wiki contributors add to their user pages information about their background and about information they contribute to the wiki. But the idea behind this project is for each professional genealogist to add to his user page the sort of information that might help a patron decide whether they'd like to hire him. This may include the following information:

Many professionals also like to display longer items such as samples of client reports, research plans, or customer testimonials. Adding these to a user page would make it too long, but they can be added as sub-pages and linked from the user page. For help in creating sub-pages, see [[Help:Subpages|Help:Subpages]] or contact the FamilySearch [https://www.familysearch.org/help/contact?wicket:interface=:2:telephoneLink::ILinkListener:: Help Desk]. 

=== Step 3: Contact FamilySearch ===

If you are a professional genealogist and want patrons to find your résumé / user page, you will want us to create links to your user page from appropriate directory pages such as [[Professional Genealogists Who Specialize in Ohio Research|Professional Genealogists Who Specialize in Ohio Research]]. We'll make all the links for you; all you need to do is fill out an online form.

=== Link topic pages to directory pages  ===

To make it even easier for patrons to find professional help, create links to the directory pages where you are listed from other appropriate wiki pages. For example, create a link from [[Ohio Vital Records|Ohio Vital Records]] to [[Professional Genealogists Who Specialize in Ohio Research|Professional Genealogists Who Specialize in Ohio Research]]. The link's wording might be something like "For a list of professional genealogists you can hire to obtain an Ohio birth, marriage, or death record, see [[Professional Genealogists Who Specialize in Ohio Research|Professional Genealogists Who Specialize in Ohio Research]]."  

You can drive a lot of traffic to the directory pages where you are listed by creating links from all the appropriate topic pages of the locality. To see a list of all the topic pages that might link to a single locality's directory page, see the page written about the locality itself. For example, to see a list of links to all the topicpages for Ohio, go to the [[Ohio|Ohio]] page and see the list of Topics there.