Useful Information to Add to a Place Portal

The following are ideas concerning useful information you might add to pages about places.


 * 1) Links to pages about major ethnic groups of the area
 * 2) Events
 * 3) Links to non-English versions of the page
 * 4) Research Tools
 * 5) County Origin – (this information is usually available from Family History Library Catalog
 * 6) Minimalist/simple/mandatory information rather than general information. (Exclude information that doesn't directly relate to genealogical research.)
 * 7) Links to other helpful/relevant pages in Wiki
 * 8) Strategy documents that help users select the right type of record to fulfill a research objective
 * 9) Links to major finding aids, such as gazetteers
 * 10) Links to major reference tools, such as translation helps or handwriting guides
 * 11) Link to the forum which covers the area
 * 12) Links to information on how to write narratives
 * 13) Links to local histories
 * 14) Timelines
 * 15) Use of Timelines (destruction, natural disasters, etc..)
 * 16) Genealogical/Historical events in media
 * 17) Images
 * 18) Events affecting jurisdictions and records
 * 19) Events affecting numerous deaths or migrations
 * 20) Laws affecting marriages, migrations, adoption, voting, record format, or record access
 * 21) Inventions affecting travel, migrations, etc., including delay between invention creation and implementation (such as the Utah railroad)
 * 22) Epidemics
 * 23) Wars and drafts
 * 24) Natural disasters
 * 25) Migration routes per time period
 * 26) How to make one category a subcategory of another