National and State Resource Page

Question

Hello everyone. I posted some genealogy resources in this forum and have been updating resources for counties in Arkansas. It came apparent to me that there needs to be some type of organization so people can zero in on what they want to search, and that many resources were repeating on the county web pages.

So I created a space page for national resources and with a link to state resources (Arkansas is the only working state with a link at this time). I thought this could be a shared space page that we all could use. You can look at my Arkansas page to see how it is formatted, but you could format your own state page anyway you wanted and link it to the national page.

It is a work in progress, and I made groupings with headers for what I thought made sense. Some of them have no links at this time, we could add or update as needed. I would like to hear if you have other suggestions or ideals?  My open is that this would become a resource project for everyone.

Take a look and explore.

Answer 1

You might want to look at what is under the United States Project https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:United_States

Also look at the WikiTree Source Library

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Category-Source

Comments

Has some good sources, but is not organized where people can focus on a specific area. Some links take you to another page with links, and you have to search through the entire list looking for what you want.

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Have you looked at each state page?  Each has a resources link, and many have counties sections with links to them. It is better to keep everything organized in one place, when it is covered by a project or sub-project, which is what the US states are.  

The state pages had been reviewed a while back to make sure that they were organized in the same manner for consistency and had links for the same things on each page. Project Leaders have been added to many of the states in the last year, so some of the pages may have been changed.

Answer 2

I think this can be a very good thing but would suggest that you get with the United States Project leaders to discuss.  We will want to avoid duplicate pages with the same information.  Are you planning to work on all fifty states with regard to adding a source page (other than the few sources that most of them have on their state project pages) for each state?  You also can review the states within the U.S. Southern Colonies Project for the sources they already have listed on each team page, as well as the New Netherlands Project and Puritan Great Migration Project (and perhaps others) ...

Darlene - Co-Leader, United States Project and U.S. Southern Colonies Project

Answer 3

The Sources, Arkansas page could definitely use what you've done: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Sources-Arkansas.

I like the idea of the flags on the United States Resources page linking to these Source pages. Resource pages for US states are buried inside Wikitree and having a link right at where most people would start would be helpful.

Comments

United States project page has a link to each state. Each state has their own project page.