Help:New Source Format

Conventions

Category

Include the type of source which best describes the new source.

Primary

• Category:Birth Certificate - For Sources that provide birth certificates.

  [[Category:Birth Certificate]]

• Category:Census - For sources that provide census records.

  [[Category:Birth Certificate]]

• Category:Death Certificate - Sources that provide death certificates.

  [[Category:Birth Certificate]]

• Category:Marriage Certificate - For sources that provide marriage certificates.

  [[Category:Birth Certificate]]

• Category:Military Records - For sources that provide general military records.

  [[Category:Military Records]]

  • Category:Revolutionary War - For sources that provide military records from Revolutionary War.

    [[:Category:Revolutionary War]]

  • Category:Indian War - For sources that provide military records from Indian Wars

    [[:Category:Indian War]]

  • Category:Civil War - For sources that provide military records from Civil Wars

    [[:Category:Civil War]]

  • Category:World War One - For sources that provide military records from World War One

    [[:Category:World War One]]

  • Category:World War Two - For sources that provide military records from World War Two

    [[:Category:World War Two]]

• Category:Online Index - For general online indexes.

  [[Category:Online Index]]

Secondary

• Category:Books‎ - Sources that are books (print or digital) -

  [[Category:Books]]

• Category:Headstones‎ - Sources that are images of headstones, transcriptions of headstones, or sites that provide indexes of headstones (i.e. FindAGrave.com -

  [[Category:Headstones]]

• Category:Website‎ - general websites

  [[Category:Website]]

  • Category:Forums‎ - online forums

    [[Category:Forums]]

  • Category:Genealogies - online genealogies

    [[Category:Genealogies]]

Format

The following can be copied and pasted when creating a new source page.

==Bibliographic Information==

===Citation===

===Links===

==Notes==

===People in this Source===

===Places in this Source===

===Organizations in this Source===

==Related Sources==

==Documents From this Source==
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