User:Thuguely/Sandbox20

Purpose
The purpose of this project is to have a "Voting Records" page for every state in the United States.

Task List
Voting Records Task List

Instructions
 Open the task list, and place your name next to the state that you want to do. Go to the state page and click on the Voter Records link in the Sidebar. It might be red, but that's okay, it just means the page hasn't been created yet. If the link was red, copy the following code onto the page. If the page already existed, replace the code that is already on the page with the following code. {{breadcrumb | link1=United States | link2=U.S. Voting Records | link3=Maryland | link4= | link5=Voting Records {{ST-sidebar}} ==Online Resources== ==Voting Rights History== *By 1856: Universal white male suffrage *1870: The 15th Amendment is passed and prohibits restricting suffrage based on race *(only for Southern states)Early 1890s: Jim Crow Laws passed to revoke African-Americans right to vote *YEAR: Women are given the right to vote *(only for Southern states)1965: The Voting Rights Act passes; African-Americans are given back the right to vote ==What Can be Found in the Records== For more information about how Voter Records can help your genealogical research see United States Voting Records. Voting records often contain: *Name *Birth place *Residence *Years living in city, county, state *Whether naturalized, date, court ==How to Find Voter Records== Most voter records were kept on the county level (for New England states this should be town level). To see what FamilySearch has for your county (town) of research follow these steps: *Go to the FamilySearch Catalog and in the place field type in STATE *Go to United States, STATE *Once there, click on "Places within United States, STATE" *Select the county that contains your town of interest *(only for New England states)Once there, click on "Places within United States, STATE, county that contains your town" *(only for New England states)Select your town of interest *If FamilySearch has voter records for your county, they will be under "Voting Registers" ==References== {{reflist}} Replace STATE with the name of the state you are working on. For example if I was editing the Maryland Voting Records Page the code would like this: {{breadcrumb | link1=United States | link2=U.S. Voting Records | link3=STATE | link4= | link5=Voting Records {{ST-sidebar}} ==Online Resources== ==Voting Rights History== *By 1856: Universal white male suffrage *1870: The 15th Amendment is passed and prohibits restricting suffrage based on race *(only for Southern states)Early 1890s: Jim Crow Laws passed to revoke African-Americans right to vote *YEAR: Women are given the right to vote *(only for Southern states)1965: The Voting Rights Act passes; African-Americans are given back the right to vote ==What Can be Found in the Records== For more information about how Voter Records can help your genealogical research see United States Voting Records. Voting records often contain: *Name *Birth place *Residence *Years living in city, county, state *Whether naturalized, date, court ==How to Find Voter Records== Most voter records were kept on the county level (for New England states this should be town level). To see what FamilySearch has for your county (town) of research follow these steps: *Go to the FamilySearch Catalog and in the place field type in Maryland *Go to United States, Maryland *Once there, click on "Places within United States, Maryland" *Select the county that contains your town of interest *(only for New England states)Once there, click on "Places within United States, Maryland, county that contains your town" *(only for New England states)Select your town of interest *If FamilySearch has voter records for your county, they will be under "Voting Registers" ==References== {{reflist}}  If you are doing a New England state; which is defined as Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont; delete the two instances of "(only for New England states)." If you are doing a state that is not in New England, delete the entire entry that are only for New England states. For example the new code for Maryland after this step would be: {{breadcrumb | link1=United States | link2=U.S. Voting Records | link3=STATE | link4= | link5=Voting Records {{ST-sidebar}} ==Online Resources== ==Voting Rights History== *By 1856: Universal white male suffrage *1870: The 15th Amendment is passed and prohibits restricting suffrage based on race *(only for Southern states)Early 1890s: Jim Crow Laws passed to revoke African-Americans right to vote *YEAR: Women are given the right to vote *(only for Southern states)1965: The Voting Rights Act passes; African-Americans are given back the right to vote ==What Can be Found in the Records== For more information about how Voter Records can help your genealogical research see United States Voting Records. Voting records often contain: *Name *Birth place *Residence *Years living in city, county, state *Whether naturalized, date, court ==How to Find Voter Records== Most voter records were kept on the county level (for New England states this should be town level). To see what FamilySearch has for your county (town) of research follow these steps: *Go to the FamilySearch Catalog and in the place field type in Maryland *Go to United States, Maryland *Once there, click on "Places within United States, Maryland" *Select the county that contains your town of interest *If FamilySearch has voter records for your county, they will be under "Voting Registers" ==References== {{reflist}} If you are doing a Southern state; which is defined as Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia; delete the two instances of "(only for Southern States)." If you are not doing a Southern state delete the entire entries. For instance, after this step, the code for Maryland would know look like this: {{breadcrumb | link1=United States | link2=U.S. Voting Records | link3=STATE | link4= | link5=Voting Records {{ST-sidebar}} ==Online Resources== ==Voting Rights History== *By 1856: Universal white male suffrage *1870: The 15th Amendment is passed and prohibits restricting suffrage based on race *Early 1890s: Jim Crow Laws passed to revoke African-Americans right to vote *YEAR: Women are given the right to vote *1965: The Voting Rights Act passes; African-Americans are given back the right to vote ==What Can be Found in the Records== For more information about how Voter Records can help your genealogical research see United States Voting Records. Voting records often contain: *Name *Birth place *Residence *Years living in city, county, state *Whether naturalized, date, court ==How to Find Voter Records== Most voter records were kept on the county level (for New England states this should be town level). To see what FamilySearch has for your county (town) of research follow these steps: *Go to the FamilySearch Catalog and in the place field type in Maryland *Go to United States, Maryland *Once there, click on "Places within United States, Maryland" *Select the county that contains your town of interest *If FamilySearch has voter records for your county, they will be under "Voting Registers" ==References== {{reflist}} Replace the "ST" in " {{ST-sidebar}} " with the state's postal code. If you are unsure what the state's postal code is, you can find them here. So, after this step, my code for Maryland would now look like the following: {{breadcrumb | link1=United States | link2=U.S. Voting Records | link3=STATE | link4= | link5=Voting Records {{MD-sidebar}} ==Online Resources== ==Voting Rights History== *By 1856: Universal white male suffrage *1870: The 15th Amendment is passed and prohibits restricting suffrage based on race *Early 1890s: Jim Crow Laws passed to revoke African-Americans right to vote *YEAR: Women are given the right to vote *1965: The Voting Rights Act passes; African-Americans are given back the right to vote ==What Can be Found in the Records== For more information about how Voter Records can help your genealogical research see United States Voting Records. Voting records often contain: *Name *Birth place *Residence *Years living in city, county, state *Whether naturalized, date, court ==How to Find Voter Records== Most voter records were kept on the county level (for New England states this should be town level). To see what FamilySearch has for your county (town) of research follow these steps: *Go to the FamilySearch Catalog and in the place field type in Maryland *Go to United States, Maryland *Once there, click on "Places within United States, Maryland" *Select the county that contains your town of interest *If FamilySearch has voter records for your county, they will be under "Voting Registers" ==References== {{reflist}} Replace YEAR with the year that women got the right to vote in your state. For all states except the following, it will be 1920. The exceptions are as following:</li> <ol> Wyoming: 1869</li> Utah: 1870</li> Colorado: 1893</li> Washington: 1869</li> Montana: 1887</li> Idaho: 1896</li> California: 1911</li> Arizona: 1912</li> Kansas: 1912</li> Oregon: 1912</li> Alaska: 1913</li> Illinois: 1913</li> Nebraska: 1917</li> Ohio: 1917</li> Indiana: 1917</li> North Dakota: 1917</li> <li>Rhode Island: 1917</li> <li>Iowa: 1919</li> <li>Maine: 1919</li> <li>Minnesota: 1919</li> <li>Missouri: 1919</li> <li>Tennessee: 1919</li> <li>Wisconsin: 1919</li> </ol> So after this step, my code for Maryland will look like the following: {{breadcrumb | link1=United States | link2=U.S. Voting Records | link3=STATE | link4= | link5=Voting Records {{MD-sidebar}} ==Online Resources== ==Voting Rights History== *By 1856: Universal white male suffrage *1870: The 15th Amendment is passed and prohibits restricting suffrage based on race *Early 1890s: Jim Crow Laws passed to revoke African-Americans right to vote *1920: Women are given the right to vote *1965: The Voting Rights Act passes; African-Americans are given back the right to vote ==What Can be Found in the Records== For more information about how Voter Records can help your genealogical research see United States Voting Records. Voting records often contain: *Name *Birth place *Residence *Years living in city, county, state *Whether naturalized, date, court ==How to Find Voter Records== Most voter records were kept on the county level (for New England states this should be town level). To see what FamilySearch has for your county (town) of research follow these steps: *Go to the FamilySearch Catalog and in the place field type in Maryland *Go to United States, Maryland *Once there, click on "Places within United States, Maryland" *Select the county that contains your town of interest *If FamilySearch has voter records for your county, they will be under "Voting Registers" ==References== {{reflist}} <li>Now that the code is finished, you need to find what voter records are available online for your states. The first place that we will look is FamilySearch Historical Records</li> <li>Go to the FamilySearch Historical Records page here</li> <li>Click on the "Browse All Published Collections" button at the bottom of the page</li> <li>Type in "Vot" into the "Filter by Collection Title" field</li> '''Note this screenshot was taken in March 2020 and may be out of date by the time you work on your page. Make sure to do this step for yourself.''' <li>If you see your state on the list of Voter Records, add it under the ==Online Resources== heading in the following style: *STARTING YEAR-ENDING YEAR : {{RecordSearch|RECORD NUMBER|NAME OF RECORD COLLECTION}} at FamilySearch - index and images <li>We'll replace the STARTING YEAR and ENDING YEAR with the years listed in the collection title.</li> For example, if I was adding "Maryland, Kent County, Voter Registration Records, 1853-1898" to the wiki, I would replace the years with the years in the title in the following way: *1853-1898 : {{RecordSearch|RECORD NUMBER|NAME OF RECORD COLLECTION}} at FamilySearch - index and images <li>We'll also replace the NAME OF RECORD COLLECTION with the title<li> So the code for this collection that I am adding for Maryland would now look like this: *1853-1898 : {{RecordSearch|RECORD NUMBER|Maryland, Kent County, Voter Registration Records, 1853-1898}} at FamilySearch - index and images