FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Portugal Histories

Step One: Open Page in Wikitext

 * From the Histories and Cities Task List, select a district. This will take you to the district's table of municipalities.
 * Click on the first available municipality. This will take you to the municipality's page.
 * Click Edit Source

Step Two: Locate Corresponding Page in Wikipedia

 * In a separate window, open Wikipedia.org
 * Search for the district that contains the municipality.
 * From the list of municipalities, select the correct one.

Step Three: Extract Historical Information

 * From the introduction and the History section of Wikipedia, find the following types of information:
 * The date the original area was founded.
 * The date the municipality was created.
 * What district it belonged to at different periods of time.
 * Historically significant events (fires, earthquakes, battles) that may have damaged genealogical records.
 * The last bullet point should give the population of the municipality. The basic format is already provided. Fill in the name of the municipality and the population number (usually stated in the sidebar).
 * Rephrase the historical information whenever possible so we are not directly copying Wikipedia.
 * Each point of information should be preceded by an asterisk (*), and be placed on a separate line.

Step Four: Format Citation
There is already a template for a citation after the last bullet point.
 * Copy the name of the wikipedia article into "PAGE NAME"
 * Copy the wikipedia article's url into "URL"
 * Write the current date in place of "DATE"

Example Page
The following link is the completed municipality page for Águeda, Aveiro, Portugal. Águeda, Aveiro Genealogy-DO IT