FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Maryland: Difference between revisions

| Add Maryland News & Events  

| width="38%" | The Maryland genealogical community needs volunteers to find genealogical news and events that relate to Maryland and link to them from the News and Events section of the [[Portal:Maryland|Maryland Portal]]. For ideas on where to find news items, see [[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:Maryland|Maryland portal]]  

| width="38%" | The ''Did You Know ''section of the [[Portal:Maryland|Maryland Portal]] is meant to lead users to the best, latest wiki articles and Web sites for Maryland 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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| [[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.  

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| Copy and paste record content bullet lists from [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/RG/frameset_rg.asp Research Guidance] 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] (Pitts, Parkins)  

| 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 Federal Census Population Schedules, 1820 to 1920]."  

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| Need someone to act as a [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Maryland News and Events|Maryland news and events "reporter"]] (also have him/her do the Did You Know section of the Maryland Portal)  

| To help authors do this task more easily, Fran Jensen created [[Finding Genealogy News and Events within the United States|Finding Genealogy News and Events within the United States]].  

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