User:Bloosgrl/sandbox19

Project Leader
Heather Mecham

Purpose
Update and standardize the census sections for counties in Arkansas.

Task List
Task List

Sample Pages
Arkansas County, Arkansas Genealogy Cleburne County, Arkansas Genealogy

Part 1: Choose Your County
1. Select your county by going to the task list and adding your name to the name column.

2. Go to the county page in the wiki.

Part 2: Find the Census Heading and Delete Unnecessary Content
1. Go to the "census records" heading on the wiki page. 2. Determine which content to keep and which needs to be deleted. See steps 3-5 to determine what content to delete. 3. You will keep the historical population table. See image below. 4. You will also keep the census template for the state and county. It will look like this. 5. Anything else in the census section needs to be deleted. If there is nothing to delete, you can go to Part 3. To delete code, go to step 6. 6. Click "edit source". Highlight everything in the section, starting with just below the historical population table and stopping just above the "Church Records" heading. See image below for example. 7. Hit the delete button.

Part 3: Copy/Paste the New Content
1. Make sure the cursor is just below the historical population table. 2. Copy the code below. ====Federal Census Records==== Though the United States purchased Arkansas from the French in 1803, Anglo-American settlement of the area did not began in earnest until after the formal organization of the territory in 1819. Therefore, Arkansas does not appear in Federal Censuses before 1830. For links to federal census indexes, see Arkansas Census.

Territorial and State Census Records
State censuses were taken at the state-level and territorial censuses were taken by the federal government. See Arkansas Census for more information about censuses taken in Arkansas.

2. Paste the code onto the wiki page.
 * 1819-1879 Arkansas, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1819-1870 at Ancestry.com - index and images ($)

Part 4: Check Your Work and Save
1. Click "show preview" and check your work. Make sure the update is placed between the "Census Records" heading and the "Church Records" heading. The historical population table will be on the right. It will look like the screenshot below. 2. Put "updated census section" in the summary. 3. Click save.