FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Tasks Cemeteries

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Task Description

Add links to Find A Grave and other online cemetery records for each of the 29 counties in Utah.

Steps

These steps are actually easy, but explaining them makes them look harder than they are.

Step 1: Prepare the county Wiki page under the "Cemeteries" heading

If there already something there for this county, make space for what you will be adding by simply moving that information further down from the "Cemeteries heading". We don't want to change it or remove it at this time.

Step 2: Copy and paste Cemetery blurb and begin Find A Grave

A) Copy (using WikiText): {{UTCoCemeteries}}

[How to do it: Highlight starting with Template:And ending with then press the Ctrl + C keys]

B) Paste (using WikiText) immediately under the Cemeteries heading of the county page.

[How to do it: Put your cursor below the "Cemeteries" heading and press Ctrl + V keys.]

Cemetery records often reveal birth, death, relationship, military, and religious information. The spouse and children who died young are frequently buried nearby.

More than tombstone inscriptions, cemetery records include sextons (caretakers) records and interment (burial) records, each with slightly different information. See Utah Cemeteries.

Step 3: Finish the Find A Grave information

A) Copy (using WikiText) the following -- including the asterisk (*)

• [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cs&

B) Paste it (using WikiText) in front of the words "Find A Grave]" on the county page.

It should look like this:

• Find A Grave

[If necessary, delete the carriage return.]

C) Type "editing cemeteries section" in the Summary and Save page.

D) Get the Find A Grave link for the correct Utah county

1. Click this link, which takes you to the Utah Find A Grave.
2. Select the county you are working on and click Search
3. Copy the address (URL) for that search

E) Fix the Find A Grave link on the county Wiki page

1. On the county page, edit the Cemeteries section (in WikiText)
2. Place the cursor just after the "[" bracket
3. Paste the URL

F) Type "Finishing Find a grave link" in the Summary and Save page

Step 4: Add the link to the FHLC

A) Copy the following paragraph (in WikiText)

• The Family History Library Catalog lists some records of cemeteries in WikiProject Utah Tasks Cemeteries. (In the Catalog, click on the link to a title to see details.) Some of the books – and others – may be on Google Books, on WorldCat, or available at public libraries.

B) Paste the paragraph (in WikiText) on the County page under the Find A Grave entry,

C) In WikiText, edit the FHL template to the county name (such as Utah, Beaver).

D) Save page

• McHenry Co. IL USGenWeb Tombstone Project usually gives the names of the deceased in alphabetical order by last name with birth and death dates plus any remarks.
• Illinois Cemeteries by county.
• ePodunk list of McHenry County cemeteries gives the names of the cemeteries in the county with a link to more information such as address, phone number, and web site.

Step 3:

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Family History Library (FHL); now called, FamilySearch Library (FSL)