For example, the front-page New Jersey Genealogy article was linked directly to the associated New Jersey Biography, New Jersey Cemeteries, and New Jersey Census pages, among others. Of those articles, 86 were front-page-articles each linked to about 25 closely related topical sub-pages. When the Family History Research Wiki was launched in late 2007, the electronic copies of the old paper publications of the Family History Library were immediately transferred into the wiki to become part of over 162 new articles.
To help these volunteers better answer questions about research, a series of "research outlines" and other publications by the Family History Library were developed starting about 1988.
These centers have volunteer staff who offer free research advice to visitors. The Family History Library in Salt Lake City has over four thousand branches worldwide called Family History Centers. Religious doctrines, church policies, and religious images do not belong on the Family History Research Wiki except where they directly impact genealogical research. Advertising, or product reviews would be inappropriate. Nor is it a place for genealogical queries, or message boards-however, it often explains and then links to such sites. The Family History Research Wiki is not a database of ancestors' names, photos, family stories, or pedigrees.
Reference information about local jurisdictions, contact information, record start and stop dates, repositories, social life and customs that affected local record keeping are also welcome.Ĭontent for a place-article may include maps, primary repository contact information, organization date, parent jurisdiction, internal sub-divisions such as towns or counties, boundary changes, record loss if any, neighboring localities, resources, local record types, local migration routes, and other local libraries, archives, societies, or museums. For example, information about local record idiosyncrasies, record gaps or record-loss, jurisdictional boundary changes, records housed in unusual places, or tips for using the records more effectively, is encouraged. So far, there are comparatively fewer pages for Africa, Asia, Australia, Latin America, or the Pacific Islands.Ĭontributors are invited to add any information about places to help researchers find, use, or better understand an ancestor's records. There are more articles for places in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
Every nation worldwide has at least one article.
Such articles suggest how to research records for information about ancestors in that jurisdiction. Most of the articles in this Wiki are about a place such as a town, county, state, province, or nation.