FamilySearch Wiki:Project New Collections

Current Projects Page

New Collections

Project Leader

Danielle Batson

Purpose

These new collections need to be added to Wiki Pages

Video Instructions

Video Link

Task List

Task List

• NOTE: There are two tabs: International Links or US Links. You can pick whichever tab you would like to work on.

Beginning Instructions

There are new collections that need to be added to pages on the Wiki.

1. You will need to sign up for a collection under either the International Links or US links tab on the Task List.
2. Open up the FamilySearch Research Wiki
3. Go to the instructions for the specific tab below.

How to Tell if Different Collections Have Indexes or Images

The collection links have been autogenerated to be in the correct format to match the manual of style. The computer is not able to tell if a collection has an index or images, so we will need to check those as we go along and adjust the code accordingly once it is on the page. It automatically says "Index & Images" on all the links.

American Ancestors

• American Ancestors has icons at the top of their collection landing page that indicates if the collection is index only.
  
  
• This is what an index only collection looks like. Besides the title saying it is an index, there is also a paper icon to the left of the title indicating it is an index only collection.
  
  

• This is what an index and images collection looks like. Notice on the right of the title it has a camera icon.
  
  

Ancestry

• Ancestry usually says in the title of their collections if it is an index. Their landing page will usually tell you if the collection is an index, images, or both.
  
  
• This is what an index only collection looks like. Notice the title says index and there is no place to browse images on the right hand side.
  
  

• This is what an index and images collection looks like. Notice on the right it has a place to browse the images.
  
  

Findmypast

• Findmypast usually does not say outright if their collection includes images. You will need to search with a common last name like, "Smith" and see if there are images in the collection.
  
  
• Search a common last name in the search space
  
  

• The file icon on the left means it has an index and the image icon on the right means that it has images. Collections may have just the index and will only show the file icon in those instances.
  
  

MyHeritage

• MyHeritage usually does not say outright if their collection includes images. You will need to search with a common last name like, "Smith" and see if there are images in the collection.
  
  
• If you search and click "View Record" and a set of images shows, the collection is Index & Images.
  
  

• If you search and click "View Record" and a stock photo shows, the collection is just Index.
  
  

International Links

Step One - Sign Up on Task List

Sign your name next to a collection on the International Links tab of the task list.

• NOTE: You can scroll through tabs on Google Sheets. Next to the first tab, there are four lines stacked vertically. If you click that, you can see a complete list of all tabs on the Google Sheet. Additionally, next to the last tab, there are right and left arrows that you can click to scroll through.

Step Two - Find Wiki Page

Search the wiki for the location mentioned in Column C

• You may need to also look at the collection on the website to see if there is a more specific location (i.e. Fairfield County, Connecticut rather than just Connecticut)

Step Three - Find Appropriate Pages for the Links to Go On

Read the pages the link code needs to go on. There are a few options the link(s) could go on:

• OGRs (Column H)
• Topic Pages(Columns I-M)
  

The cells on the task list will tell you where it needs to go. If it is blank, you do not need to add it to that section. Read the notes for further information.

Step Four - Add Links to Appropriate Pages

• Click Edit Source next to the appropriate headings and pages you found from the task list.

• Most links will be the "Collection Link Code" column.

• OGR links only go on OGRs
• Also at: links only go on the page if the same collection is already there.
  
  

• Copy the code and paste it in chronological order by date.
  
  

• Remember to check to see if it is an index, images, or both. Remove words as necessary.
  
  

Exceptions:

• If the link is already on the page, replace it with this new link to make it match the new manual of style. Do not worry about other entries on the page that are not in accordance with the manual of style.
• If there are no other entries with dates, put this as the first bullet.
• If there is a note about there being no online records available, please replace that note with this link.

• Click Show Preview to make sure it looks good and the link works.

• Enter in
  

New Collections Project 

as the Summary.

• Click Save Changes.
  
  

US Links

Step One - Sign Up on Task List

Sign your name next to a collection on the US Links tab of the task list.

• NOTE: You can scroll through tabs on Google Sheets. Next to the first tab, there are four lines stacked vertically. If you click that, you can see a complete list of all tabs on the Google Sheet. Additionally, next to the last tab, there are right and left arrows that you can click to scroll through.

Step Two - Find Wiki Page

Search the wiki for the location mentioned in Column C

• You may need to also look at the collection on the website to see if there is a more specific location (i.e. Fairfield County, Connecticut rather than just Connecticut)

Step Three - Find Appropriate Pages for the Links to Go On

Read the pages the link code needs to go on. There are a few options the link(s) could go on:

• OGRs (Column H)
• Topic and Locality Pages (Column I-L)

• If it is a county only collection, it will only be added to the singular county page it is related to.
• For state wide collections, a separate project will be created to put links on individual county pages. Do not worry about adding them to every county page.

The cells on the task list will tell you where it needs to go. If it is blank, you do not need to add it to that section. Read the notes for further information.

Step Four - Add Links to Appropriate Pages

• Click Edit Source next to the appropriate headings and pages you found from the task list.

• Most links will be the "Collection Link Code" column.

• OGR links only go on OGRs
• Also at: links only go on the page if the same collection is already there.
  
  

• Copy the code and paste it in chronological order by date.
  
  

• Remember to check to see if it is an index, images, or both. Remove words as necessary.
  
  

Exceptions:

• If the link is already on the page, replace it with this new link to make it match the new manual of style. Do not worry about other entries on the page that are not in accordance with the manual of style.
• If there are no other entries with dates, put this as the first bullet.
• If there is a note about there being no online records available, please replace that note with this link.

• Click Show Preview to make sure it looks good and the link works.

• Enter in
  

New Collections Project 

as the Summary.

• Click Save Changes.