FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject English parishes

This is a child WikiProject of WikiProject England with a focus on improving the articles about the many hundreds of English parishes.

Scope[edit | edit source]

Articles about English parishes. As WikiProjects for different English counties are created this project will work in conjunction with those projects on parish articles for each specific county.

Contributors[edit | edit source]

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Steve
Nathan - I am working on developing coverage charts for parish registers available online.

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Tasks[edit | edit source]

Alter contributor prompts[edit | edit source]

Parish History[edit | edit source]

Replaced the boilerplate text on parish pages from

Add a general overview of the history of this parish. It can be a few sentences or a couple of paragraphs.

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The 'Vision of Britain' is a good gazetteer but it is not Parish History material for the most part. Many parishes are very small and have only a few sentences in the gazetteer. It really don't make sense to take a few sentences and reduce it down to a few more sentences and call that the parish history excerpt. It looks like systematically this is what is being done to every parish. There is a Gazetteer section on every parish page that one would think is where gazetteer entries would go.Donjgen 06:33, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Census records[edit | edit source]

Replaced the boilerplate text on parish pages from

Include an overview if there is any unique information, such as the census for X year was destroyed. Add a link to online sites for indexes and/or images. Also add a link to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

NOTE: This is best acomplished using a subject search link such as Metfield or Metfield Census A listing for 'Metfield' can also be put in the Resource Section as this is a link to the every listing in the catalogue for that parish. see example Metfield, Suffolk

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