Canada Project - Style Guide and Help

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Welcome

Welcome traveller! We're excited you're on this journey with us, and we hope that we can help you along any unfamiliar terrain.

Style and content are really important for organizing our own research, and for helping other people find and understand what we've written, and to collaborate in turn. Generally WikiTree and the Canada Project allow people to use styles and formats they're comfortable with, but there are a few really helpful tricks you might want to learn, that we'll ask for during the Trail.

Don't feel like you need to read all the of the following documents before you get started. There is a lot of material here! But have a look at the topics, and the examples provided.

Style and formatting index

If you ever find you need to look them up, come here to find step-by-step guides for:

1. Lists! Bulleted and numbered
2. Reference lists, reference styles and Evidence Explained
3. Headers and tags
4. Links to pages
5. Citations and inline references
6. Style overview, and terms explained

What are biographies?

If you want to get more information on what a biography is, why it's important, and how to write one.

• Biographies Help Page: This page outlines the required and optional headings for the biography portion of a profile.
• Advanced Biography and Editing Tips
• Advanced Biography Writing
• Introduction to Categories
• Categorization Glossary

What are sources?

• Using Sources for Genealogy Research: This page outlines why sources are important when researching your ancestors. The Canada Project requires all profiles that are part of the project's reach meet or exceed WikiTree's standards for sourcing.
• Sources Help Page: This page outlines why sources are a required part of the WikiTree experience and shows you two ways to add sources to your ancestors profiles.
• Advanced Sourcing
• What are examples of sources that provide uncertain information?: This page outlines what sources are considered derivative and are not used for profiles that are part of the Canada Project. They can however, be helpful in finding true sources.
• Research Notes Help Page: This page outlines why a Research Notes section can be helpful, where to properly place the research notes section, and introduces Research Note Boxes (we'll look at these more closely, later).