Categorisation in Wales - Page 1

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This part of the Wales Project. We like to make sure that all our members have a grasp of some of the fundamentals. If you have questions, we look forward to answering them and if necessary editing this page.

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What are Categories?

You have probably seen them in Green at the bottom of a Profile Page or in some layouts above the Biography.

In the Edit tab, you will find them at the top of the Profile

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What are they used for?

Collaboration. Putting a category link on a Profile will put him/her into a group with other Profiles who have the same category link. This can help with brick walls: you go to a category group for a location, for instance – and find family living in the same area. This means you can contact other Profile Managers who might be able to help you. Or you can find everyone who worked as a librarian, or who is buried in a certain cemetery, for instance. There are lots of different sorts of Categories.

We are starting with Locations here: the places where people were born, lived and died. Location categories in Wales are always in the format "Place, County". They do not include Wales or UK. They always use the traditional County. This is the way we work in the Wales Project.

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How do I add a category to one of my Profiles?

A Category is added by editing the Profile, not by adding the Profile to the Category page.

Always use the smallest geographic category possible. By which I don't mean 123 Any Street, but the town/village/city, followed by the county.

The simplest way is to use the Category Picker to select the category. The Category Picker appears as an icon on the toolbar which appears above the edit window.

When you click on this icon a little window opens.

Start writing the Location you are looking for. As you write the selection whittles down. So if you start writing Aberg... you will still have loads to go through. add another e, Aberge..., and you'll be down to half a dozen or so to choose from. When you click on your chosen Location, the Category will immediately be put into the Profile in the correct format. (For technical reasons, spaces in the Category name appear with an underscore in the Category Picker - you can ignore these underscores.)

****Whatever you do, remember to SAVE CHANGES****

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If you cannot find your Location Category

In Wales nearly everywhere has a Location. However, the varieties of spelling can be ultra-confusing. First have a check in the County Category. For example, you might have a record with a location Eglwysfach, and nothing turns up. When you look in Category:Denbighshire, you will find a Location Eglwysbach with a b not an f.

Very occasionally we need to add a new Location. Check with the team first, please

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Would you like to Learn some More?

Have a look at the Second Page on Categorisations