adding sources

Question

How do I go about adding sources like census, birth, death, & marriage records?

Answer 1

Hi Martha,

Check out http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sources and http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Footnotes

Chris

Comments

Thank you, Chris.  I've done quite a few of these and was going to try to answer, but was a bit hesitant, considering how long the answer would have to be.  Nice to see that it's already there on WikiTree.
I mentioned elsewhere here that an online tutorial for merges would be nice to have.  Editing records would be another good topic.

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Hi Fred. I'm sure you've seen http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Merging but you mean a step-by-step guide on how to do a merge? Any specific questions you'd like it to answer? Regarding editing, there is http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Editing_Tips but again, do you mean something else?

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No, I actually hadn't seen those pages.  They look very useful.

I follow WikiTree's suggestion to jump in and experiment. :-)  I also have a VERY basic knowledge of HTML, and that helps when it comes to working with the various formatting codes.  Still, I didn't know about doing '''bold''' and ''italic'', for example, before I looked at the pages you linked.

I was actually thinking of something along the lines of a video/webinar.  I think a lot of WikiTreers find the editing and merging to be a bit intimidating and think it might help.

Meantime, those pages you linked are GOOD resources than everyone should look at.

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Well, darn!  The bold and italic codes don't work on G2G. :-)