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Many Hands Make Light Work...

Everyone knows at least a little bit about something or someplace. The information you contribute could be exactly what someone else needs to connect with or add to their family history.

Fill out this form to get started as a Wiki Volunteer and let us know what you're interested in helping with.

Pages and Projects That Need Your Help

Beginner Projects

Some examples of beginner projects might be checking for broken links or adding categories to pages.

• Adding Categories
• Repair Broken Links
• Add information to your county and/or city pages.
• Prepare county histories - county section of each state.
• Repositories - what's in a repository of genealogical interest ... U.S. Canada.
• Write about Migration Trails - Which Counties and Towns they went through in both the U.S. and Canada.

Stub Pages

A "Stub" is a page containing a limited amount of information. If you need help learning about stub pages and how to add information to them, review the article FamilySearch Wiki:Stub. Follow a link below to help fill out pages that need more information:

• Lexington County, Virginia
• Fairfax County, Virginia
• York County, Virginia Cemeteries
• Amelia County, Virginia Cemeteries
• Appomattox County, Virginia Cemeteries
• Brunswick County, Virginia Cemeteries

Instructions for moderator: To see all of the stub articles for your locality click here... See the locality in Stub Types.

Wanted Pages

A "Wanted Page" is a page that doesn't yet exist, but someone created a link to it, showing that they want a page on that topic created. For online classes to learn how to create a new page or wiki article click here: Creating a Wiki Article Searching for and Creating Articles.

Follow the red links below to create a requested Wanted page:

• Clifton Forge, Virginia
• Chesapeake Bay, Virginia
• York River, Virginia
• Look through the list of wanted pages

Ongoing Projects

• Wiki Projects seeking contributors
• Wiki Cleanup Projects

Specific Needs for Your Area

Migration Routes need page created, do research on each route.

• 1.Cumberland Road
• 2.Rappahannock River
• 3.James River

Maintaining Existing Pages

Check and fix broken links

• Patrolling
• Patrolling New Pages
• Patrolling Recent Changes
• Add Catagories to pages
• How to Make Your First Edit

Other Help Wanted Projects

If there are other areas of the FamilySearch Wiki you would like to volunteer for, we have a Wiki Help Wanted page that lists additional projects and areas where help is needed.

• Add links to the David Rumsey Map Collection for the state or county in question. For an example, see the Pennsylvania.
• Add each state or county's creation date and parent states/counties. This information can be found using the Place Search in the Family History Library Catalog.
• Add links to digitized state and county histories. A large collection of such histories is Brigham Young University's Family History Archives. A shortcut to searching it for local histories is on the BYU-FHL Digital Books Collection page.

Moderator Needed

A moderator is needed to work with and support contributors in Virginia. Would you like to help as a moderator?

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