User:JensenFA



Fran Jensen is a member of the Virtual Support team at FamilySearch.org and is moderating the Utah and Tracing LDS Ancestors wiki communities.

My ancestors are from Denmark, England, Germany, Ireland, and Scotland. After my ancestors immigrated to the United States they settled in California, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Tracing LDS Ancestors.

I am new to the Wiki world, so I'm just beginning to learn how to add and edit content in the wiki. Here on my own personal page I'm keeping track of some of the things I've learned and also used to help make FamilySearch Wiki the best it can be:


 * Making a page more interesting by adding images is hard if you personally don't have any images to add. So I went looking for some that could be used on the Utah pages. I found the Wikimedia Commons site by clicking on an image in an article about Utah that was at the Wikipedia site. So here's a link to the Utah images that may be helpful for the Utah Portal - Wikimedia Commons for Utah
 * One day I heard someone talking about the ability to have a personal sandbox page. After the conversation I went looking for instructions on how to build my own sandbox or subpage in the Wiki. I learn by doing, so I used my subpage to take notes from a book I was reading: User:Franjensen/Sandbox is my sandbox.
 * I've spent many hours reading articles at Wikipedia about how to edit and add content to a wiki site using the Wiki text markup language instead of the FCKeditor that's provided on FamilySearch Wiki. Some of those articles include: Wikipedia: How to edit a page and specifically the Wiki Markup section of the article.

In addition to family history research, I also enjoy all aspects of writing personal and family histories, including conducting oral history interviews. I created a subpage that includes a small list of places where someone can publish their personal or family history: User:Franjensen/New Ways to Publish a Personal or Family History. Content in the Wiki about writing personal and family histories includes the following:
 * Writing Your Family and Personal History
 * Write a Family History
 * For Further Reading about writing a family history see the bibliography listed under the section titled "Writing a Family History."

Recently I've been working on adding content and stub articles to the Portal:Moderation page. This page is intended to be specifically realted to those who have volunteered to be a Moderator in the Wiki. If you are interested in being a Moderator for a locality or special research subject, please contact a Sysop.