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=== Specific Instructions for Ancestry Historic Newspapers  ===
=== Specific Instructions for Ancestry Historic Newspapers  ===


1. You will be adding information to the FamilySearch county page by editing in wiki text. *If you have questions about editing, go to wiki help links under the heading [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Ohio Tasks-Online Newspapers#Description|Description]].  
1. You will find and add any online historic newspapers for your county posted on Ancestry.com


2. Click on your chosen county name in the [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Ohio Tasks-Online Newspapers#Assignment_Chart|Assignment Chart]]. This will take you to your county page.  
2. Click at the following ancestry.com link to go to [http://search.ancestry.com/Places/US/Ohio/Default.aspx Ancestry.com]


3. Login to the FamilySearch wiki using your FamilySearch login name and password (https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Main_Page)
3. Once at the Ancestry.com website, look to the right of the webpage and click on the county you have chosen to work on. A list of all databases and digital books for that county will appear.  


4. Scroll to the sub heading, Local History, which is under the heading, History.  
4. Review the databases listed under the section "County Newspapers & Publications" to determine if any newspapers are digitzed and posted in Ancestry.com's collection.  


5. Click at the following ancestry.com link to go to [http://search.ancestry.com/Places/US/Ohio/Default.aspx Ancestry.com]
8. Go back to the window you have open for the FamilySearch county wiki page and click the edit box, which is to the right of the heading, Newspapers.  Then click on the word, wikitext, which will bring you to the wiki text field.  


6. Once at the Ancestry.com website, look to the right of the webpage and click on the county you have chosen to work on. A list of all databases and digital books for that county will appear.
9. You will now enter the databases found in Ancestry into the FamilySearch county wiki page under Online Newspapers. If you found newspapers in the Library of Congress, add the Ancestry newspapersa after the Library of Congree newspapers.
 
7. Review the databases listed under the section "County Newspapers & Publications" to determine which ones may be added under the Online Newspapers section on the FamilySearch county wiki page.  
 
8. Go back to the window you have open for the FamilySearch county wiki page and click the edit box, which is to the right of the heading, Local Histories. If "Local Histories" does not have an edit box, use the one to the right of "Histories." Then click on the word, wikitext, which will bring you to the wiki text field.
 
9. You will now enter the databases found in ancestry into the FamilySearch county wiki page under Local History.  


The format is:  
The format is:  
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==== Examples  ====
==== Examples  ====


'''EXAMPLE In Wiki Text'''  
'''EXAMPLE In Wiki Text''' <nowiki>


:*<nowiki>[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=30181 History of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties:With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches]</nowiki> at <nowiki>[http://www.ancestry.com Ancestry.com]</nowiki> ($); digitized book.
'''Online Newspapers'''
 
:*'''1857-1886''' [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038158/ ''The Highland Weekly News''] available at the Library of Congress - free.  
:*'''1886-1914''' [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038161/ ''The News-Herald''] at the Library of Congress - free.
:*Highland County Newspapers available at [http://search.ancestry.com/Places/US/Ohio/Highland/Default.aspx Ancestry] ($). </nowiki>


'''EXAMPLE – Finished Product'''  
'''EXAMPLE – Finished Product'''  


:*[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=30181 History of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties:With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches] at [http://www.ancestry.com Ancestry.com] ($); book transcription.
'''Online Newspapers'''
 
:*'''1857-1886''' [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038158/ ''The Highland Weekly News''] available at the Library of Congress - free.  
:*'''1886-1914''' [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038161/ ''The News-Herald''] at the Library of Congress - free.
:*Highland County Newspapers available at [http://search.ancestry.com/Places/US/Ohio/Highland/Default.aspx Ancestry] ($).


'''EXAMPLE of complete History Section'''  
'''EXAMPLE of complete History Section'''  


[[Mahoning County, Ohio#Local_History|Mahoning County, Ohio Local History]]  
[[Highland County, Ohio#Newspapers|Highland County, Ohio Newspapers]]  


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=== Assignment Chart  ===
=== Assignment Chart  ===
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