WikiProject:Oregon Birth and Death Collection

Current Projects Page

Oregon Birth and Death Collection

Project Leader

Danielle

Purpose

Add an Oregon Collection to both Births and Deaths headers on a county page

Video Instructions

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Task List

• Oregon

Oregon Birth and Death Records

Step One - Sign Up

Sign your name next to a county on the Oregon 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 - Click the Link

Using the links on the task list, click the locality you want to work on.

Step Three - Click Vital Records in the Contents

In the contents, select Vital Records. This should jump you down to where we will be adding the collection. You can also just scroll down to this subheading.

Step Four - Click Edit Source next to Vital Records

• Click Edit Source next to Vital Records.

Step Five - Add the Collection under Births and Deaths

• Copy the following code and paste it under these two headings:

*Births

*Deaths

They should be in chronological order by date.

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.

*'''1855-1970''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=61679 Oregon, U.S., County Births and Deaths, 1855-1970] at Ancestry — index & images ($)

Step Six - Show Preview and Save the Page

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

• Enter in
  

/* Deaths */ New Collections Project 

as the Summary.

• Click Save Changes.
  
  

Example

Here is an example of what it should look like. The yellow on the image shows the correct placement of the collection under both Births and Deaths.

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