FamilySearchWiki:WikiProject: Updating Societies Pages for 2021 and Caribbean Countries

Project Leader
Heather Mecham

Purpose
Updating and creating pages for Societies pages.

Task List
Task List

Sample Pages
Costa Rica Societies Atkinson County, Georgia Genealogy

Training Video
[Training Video]

Part 1: Set Up a Sandbox
1. Open a sandbox and copy and paste the code below into the sandbox. == Genealogical Societies ==

Additional Resources
2. Click save.

Part 2: Select a Country
1. Go to the task list. 2. Put you name in the name column on the same line as the country you want to work on. 3. Click the name of the country and it will take you to the existing socities page in the Wiki for your country.

Part 3: Review the Current Wiki Page
1. Review the information on the Wiki page. 2. Check for headings that do not contain any information. We will address that starting in Part 5. 3. Click each link and check to make sure it still works. Broken links should be removed. 4. Look for message boards that are listed in place of genealogical societies. We will move these to the correct place in Part 5. 5. Check for any naked links that need to be named. We will fix those in Part 4.

Part 4: Move Resources to the Sandbox that Belong on the Page
1. Move each society/resource to the sandbox one at a time. Leave out any broken links. We will address those in Part 5. 2. Entries with naked links, need to be fixed. You can fix them by copying and pasting the code below into your sandbox. [URL NAME OF SOCIETY] 3. Paste the URL for the society in place of the code you copied and pasted. 4. Replace the words NAME OF SOCIETY in the code you copied and pasted with the name of the society. 5. Any message boards can be moved from the Genealogical Societies heading to the Additional Resources Heading. 6. Reformat the message board entries using the following code. *[URL WEBSITE NAME Message Board for COUNTRY NAME] 7. Copy the URL of the message board and paste it into the code. 8. Replace WEBSITE NAME with the name of the site where the message board is hosted. 9. Replace COUNTRY NAME with the name of the the country. See below for example.
 * My Heritage Message Board for Costa Rica

Part 5: Update the Genealogical Societies Section
1. Go to the "Genealogical Societies" heading in your sandbox. 2. If any societies have broken links for your website, try searching for them using Google and then replacing them. 2. If there are no genealogical societies for the page, search for them on Google. 3. You may need to search for them in the language of the country. Use Google translate to search for them. Example search terms:Costa Rica Genealogical Society or Sociedad Genealógica de Costa Rica. 4. Add the information where you find societies. Use the example below to correctly format each entry.

Costa Rican Academy of Genealogical Sciences Barrio La Soledad Avenida 4 between Calles 9 and 11 ICOMOS headquarters Apdo. 1246-1000 San José, Costa Rica email: academia.crc.genealogía@gmail.com Website: Costa Rican Academy of Genealogical Sciences

5. You may not be able to find information for every line in the entry. In those cases, you can leave those lines out and only include the information you have. See example below.

The Genealogy and History Association of Costa Rica (Asogehi) email: asogehi@gmail.com Website: The Genealogy and History Association of Costa Rica (Asogehi)

Part 6: Update the Historical Societies Section
1. Go to the heading "Historical Societies". 2. If there are societies listed there, replace any broken links found in Part 4. 3. Do a Google search to find these societies and replace them. 4. Once those links are fixed, go to part 7. 3. If there are no societies listed, use Google search to try to find them. 4. You may need to search for them in the language of the country. Use Google translate to search for them. Example search terms:Costa Rica historical society or sociedad historica de Costa Rica. 4. Add the information where you find societies. Use the example below to correctly format each entry.

Costa Rican Academy of Genealogical Sciences Barrio La Soledad Avenida 4 between Calles 9 and 11 ICOMOS headquarters Apdo. 1246-1000 San José, Costa Rica email: academia.crc.genealogía@gmail.com Website: Costa Rican Academy of Genealogical Sciences

5. You may not be able to find information for every line in the entry. In those cases, you can leave those lines out and only include the information you have. See example below.

The Genealogy and History Association of Costa Rica (Asogehi) email: asogehi@gmail.com Website: The Genealogy and History Association of Costa Rica (Asogehi)

Part 7: Save Your Work
1. Click show preview. 2. Check your work. 3. Click save. 4. Place the link to your sandbox in the task list and put the date in the date column.