FamilySearch Wiki:Help wanted on the California pages

Many Hands Make Light Work...

Everyone knows at least a little bit about something or someplace. The information you contribute could be exactly what someone else needs to connect with or add to their family history.

Pages & Projects That Need Your Help

Beginner Projects

Some examples of beginner projects might be checking for broken links or adding categories to pages.

• Adding Categories
• Repair Broken Links
• Add information to your county and/or city pages.
• Prepare county histories - county section of each state.
• Repositories - what's in a repository of genealogical interest ... U.S. Canada.
• Write about Migration Trails - Which Counties and Towns they went through in both the U.S. and Canada.

Stub Pages

A "Stub" is a page containing a limited amount of information. If you need help learning about stub pages and how to add information to them, review the article FamilySearch Wiki:Stub. Follow a link below to help fill out pages that need more information:

• Branciforte County, California
• Hoopa Area Field Office (California)
• Santa Barbara County, California
• Trinity County, California
• Whittier, California

Instructions for moderator: To see all of the stub articles for your locality, review Category: California stubs.

Wanted Pages

A "Wanted Page" is a page that doesn't yet exist, but someone created a link to it, showing that they want a page on that topic created. For online classes to learn how to create a new page or wiki article click here: Creating a Wiki Article Searching for and Creating Articles.

Follow the red links below to create a requested Wanted page:

• California Record Selection Table
• California Search Strategies
• African-American Resources for California
• Look through the list of wanted pages

Maintaining Existing Pages

Check and fix broken links

• Patrolling
• Patrolling New Pages
• Patrolling Recent Changes
• Add Catagories to pages
• How to Make Your First Edit

Specific Needs for Your Area

• 1. State, county, and town histories often contain biographical sketches of local citizens, including important genealogical information. This may be one of the best sources of information for some families.
• 2. If you are interested in being a moderator for a state or country, please contact the Support Team

Other Help Wanted Projects

If there are other areas of the FamilySearch Wiki you would like to volunteer for, we have a Wiki Help Wanted page that lists additional projects and areas where help is needed.