FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject England
Welcome to the England Barn Raising page! A Wiki barn raising is a short, focused community effort to create or revise content relating to a single topic, such as "Getting Started with Genealogical Research in England." The following tasks need to be accomplished during the England Barn Raising in February 2009. Please volunteer to complete one or more tasks by adding your name to this list. Before you can add your name to the list below, you must register. After you have registered:
- Log in to the Wiki.
- While on this page, with the tasks listed, click the "Edit" option located in the page options box to the right. This will open the "Editing" window.
- Select the task you wish to work on, then input three tildes (~~~) in the "Sign Up..." column (the third column) across from the task description. (Do not type your name--the three tildes will automatically insert your username if you are logged in.)
- Go down to the bottom of the editing page, and click "Save Page" to save your changes.
- Make sure you share your thoughts on the project you're working on in your User page. Also share your thoughts on others' User pages.
More than one person may sign up to work on a given task. That way, those who sign up for a task can also communicate with each other on what they'ree doing.
England Pages to Update as Part of the Barn Raising
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Some of these articles came from the old England Research outline and need to be updated. This first table lists those topics that are part of this phase of the barn raising.
| Task Description | Notes | Sign up by inserting 3 tildes ( ~~~ ) |
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| England four major record types (next four lines): | |||
| Census |
Split some content off to their own pages due to main page being too large
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60% |
| Church Records |
Kimleavitt Gloriarut smiledhc |
25% | |
| Civil Registration |
Kimleavitt, smiledhc |
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| Probate Records | Also go to the separate barn raising page for the England Probate Keys Migration |
<Orgaft> |
95% |
| General Pages to Create from Scratch: | |||
| Getting Started | Can be many articles; do essential ones first. |
Anne100% my part | |
| Major Websites for English Research (or similar title) | A list of the major web sites with broad, national data or content for English genealogy with a brief description and comparison on value, unique data, and benefits of each |
Kimleavitt |
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| Add Individual web sites in more detail | Major Websites is a brief description; pages for each major site which give more detail may be needed. Sign up in one of the next few lines to write a page on a single major English web site (replace "another major..." with actual name of web site). |
Ros West |
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| GenesReunited | Details and strategies on how/why to use GenesReunited, a major UK web ste |
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| Ros West Lpettengell |
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| FreeBMD |
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| findmypast.com |
Details on what resources are available and strategies for using the site. |
Mattgarneruk |
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| GENUKI |
Bakerbh |
100% | |
| ancestry.co.uk |
Evvacbenson |
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| FamilyHistoryOnline |
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| The National Archives website (TNA) |
Proarenee |
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| UKBMD |
Palmer Gscrowder |
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| http://www.durhamrecordsonline.com |
Details on what resources are available and strategies for using the site. |
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| FreeREG |
Ros West |
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| another major English web site |
Simple tasks[edit | edit source]
Potentially, a large number of volunteers in the community may feel unqualified to write a 'how to' article on a subject of interest, but they are available to do simple tasks that support the writing of articles. This is the place to list and/or volunteer for those tasks! If you're a writer, here's where you can get some help. If you're a volunteer or community member, here's where you can give some!
| Task Description | Notes | Sign up by inserting 3 tildes (~~~) |
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| Create links for topics; also on county pages. | |||
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Change county page titles to the county name only (no England on the end) Changing county page format with topics bar to the left |
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| Find sources of England maps online. | An initial posting of websites contiaing maps of England has been posted and can be accessed via the link to the left (England maps). Anyone having information where additional map sources can be found on the internet, please feel free to link to those site(s) if appropriate. |
Jorgensene smiledhc |
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| Add England News & Events to the page | The England genealogical community needs volunteers to find genealogical news and events that relate to England and link to them from the News and Events section of the England page. For ideas on where to find news items, see Finding Genealogy News and Events within the United States. | Myrnajo |
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| Add to the Did You Know section of the England page | The Did You Know section of the England page is meant to lead users to the best, latest wiki articles and Web sites for England research. This list changes continually like the Did You Know section on WikiPedia's home page. | Judy | |
| Link to data sets in record search. | Go here for a description of the project. | Dawsonj | |
| Link from England pages to the major UK data sites. | What sites to include? |
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| Link wiki to digitized books in the BYU Family History Archive. | Go here for a description of the project. |
<Orgaft> |
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| Copy and paste record content bullet lists from Research Guidance and/or SourceGuide | 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 "Alabama Federal Census Population Schedules, 1820 to 1920." | ||
| Need someone to act as a England news and events "reporter" (also have him/her do the Did You Know section of the England page) | To help authors do this task more easily, Fran Jensen created Finding Genealogy News and Events within the United States. | <Orgaft> |
Preliminary tasks for wiki veterans[edit | edit source]
| Task Description | Notes | Sign up by inserting 3 tildes (~~~) |
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| 1. Create a repository template |
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| 2. Create an example topic page for England |
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| 3. Create an example county page for England |
Marlli |
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| 4. Create example repository pages for above |
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| 5. Create barn raising explanation and invitation |
Done! For an explanation of what a barn raising is, see Barn Raising on FamilySearch Wiki. |
Ritcheymt |
100 |
| 6. Put up this barn raising tasks list sign-up sheet |
Prelimary draft done (This page) |
Alanm |
100 |
| 7. Put up barn raising advertisements |
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Alanm |
25 |
| 8. Get volunteer cosmetic editor | A cosmetic editor simply checks the article to be sure there are no white spaces, or other problems regarding the 'look and feel' of a given article. | JamesAnderson | 100 |
| 9. Get volunteer source footnotes champion | |||
| 10. Get volunteer wiki trainer/mentor | 100 |
Other England Pages to Update
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Many of these articles came from the old England Research outline and need to be updated. This table lists all topics for all phases of England barn raisings. They are listed here to give you the opportunity to take a task even if all of those above are taken or none of them meet your interests. You may add tasks you think are needed or add a note to one you think is not needed for England.While these pages are not part of the February 2009 barn raising, they can be worked on at any time, and may be the focus for a future phase of England barn raisings.
| Task Description | Notes | Sign up by inserting 3 tildes (~~~) |
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| Archives and Libraries | |||
| Big City Research | |||
| Biographies | |||
| Cemeteries | |||
| Court Records | Anne |
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| Directories | Anthony Camp |
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| Emigration and Immigration | (Karencevans) |
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| Gazetteers | |||
| Genealogy | |||
| Handwriting | <Orgaft> |
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| Heraldry | |||
| Church History | |||
| Historical Geography | |||
| History | |||
| Land and Property | Anne |
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| Language and Languages | |||
| Manors | |||
| Maps | |||
| Merchant Marine | |||
| Military Records | Proarenee |
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| Minorities | |||
| Naturalization and Citizenship | |||
| Newspapers | |||
| Nobility | |||
| Periodicals | |||
| Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc. | |||
| Societies | |||
| Taxation | Lpettengell |
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| Visitations, Heraldic | |||
| Vital Records - see Civil Registration | |||
| Voting Registers | Articles on Poll Books and Electoral Registers completed; they need a cross-reference to "Voting Registers" |
Anthony Camp |
100% |
England county pages to update
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These pages should be written during the second phase of the barn raising.