FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Pennsylvania/Tasks-Church Records Intro 1

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Task
Wiki Project Pennsylvania Tasks - Church Records Intro 1

Description
Locate information about the churches in your county using county histories and add it to the Intro about how to access county church records. This task is in three parts, A-C.

PART A
1. Using a search engine of your choice, search for a county archives for your county. One example of a search phrase, "York County archives Pennsylvania."

2. If you locate a county archives for your county, search the website to see if they have church records. Add a paragraph about how to search/request church records from the archives. For an example, see Berks County Church Records wiki page.

3. Now search for any historical or genealogical societies in the county to see if they have any church records in their collections {google and try this website).

4. If the county or historical or genealogical societies have church records, add a paragraph about how to search/request church records from the archives. For an example, see Berks County Church Records wiki page.

5. Go to Part B.

PART B
1. Review some of the county histories in the FHLC for the county you are researching. You are specifically looking for churches in the county.

2. Once you have located an appropriate history, look for the section containing the history of the churches in your county. There should be a chapter devoted to church history.

3. For each church denomination you find information on in the history book, rewrite in a concise manner any pertinent information about the history of that denomination. Use Berks County Church Records as an example.

4. Cite the information from the book/books by doing the following:


 * 4a. Using wikitext, place the citation right at the end of the sentence or paragraph you are citing. Use the following example as a guideline for creating the citation for the book you used:


 * 4b. In Richtext click on the &lt;R&gt; button on the left on the tool bar. Once the new window is open insert your citation using the citation in 4a as a guide.

5. Before you leave the page, make sure there is a "Reference" heading (usually a heading 3) at the bottom of the page - but before the nav box. If it is not there, add it.

6. If you added the Reference Heading add the following just below the heading in wikitext:

PART C
1. Copy the following template and paste it in wiki text under the heading Church Records:

2. In the template, replace the county, Berks with the name of the county you are working on.

3. In the template, change the numbers listed with the number you obtain from doing the following:


 * While in the new FHLC on FamilySearch.org, select any record under the county's "church records" topic.
 * 1. Put your county into the search "For" field, i.e. Berks, Pennsylvania.
 * 2. Click on the county name as it appears beneath what you are typing.
 * 3. Select the church records topic from the list.
 * 4. Select any record listed in the church records topic.
 * 5. In the church record, under the "Subjects" heading select the link called "Pennsylvania, (your county)– church records".
 * 6. Click on this blue subject link (i.e. Pennsylvania, Berks - church Records).
 * 7. In the upper left corner you will find a heading titled "Search" containing the term Subject Number. Under that is the heading "For" with a number. Copy the number in the "For" field.
 * 8.Paste the number in template listed in #1 above replacing the number field in the template.

NOTE: The template links to the FHLC and will show any additional records that are added to the FHLC in the future.

Example Part A
See Berks County, Pennsylvania, Church records heading.

Example Part B
See Berks County, Pennsylvania, Church records heading.

Example Part C
Finding Church Records at Other Repositories

Additional church records can sometimes be found using search phrases as Berks County, Pennsylvania Church Records in online catalogs like:


 * Historical Society of Pennsylvania
 * WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
 * Family History Library Catalog (For instructions see FHL Catalog Place-name Search)