FamilySearch Wiki:Headings for Articles about Records

Wiki contributors frequently ask "How should I write articles. What kinds of information should I include?" To help answer this, a committee of FamilySearch employees and volunteers used a series of meetings to compile a list of the headings used by various authors in wiki articles, in FamilySearch publications, and in Record Search at FamilySearch Labs. The following is a list of those headings. This list is not intended to restrict an author, but to prompt him to write the kinds of information that will be useful to a customer who wants to use a certain record. These headings are meant to be a help, not a restriction, so feel free to experiment in changing their order or wording, or by combining them when it makes sense. The first wiki article which implemented this list of headings was the Maryland Maps page. Studying this page will show you that some of the headings were combined, so feel free to experiment. We will learn best practices as we implement the list.