Biographical Wiki:Recommendations

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The Biographical Wiki is designed to create a collaborative database of biographical information.

The following are some recommendations to help achieve that goal:

• Don't try to do it all at once. Crafting a useful biography with links takes patience and practice. Take as much time as you like. The Wiki is designed for each article to be edited and re-edited.

• Use the talk pages. Collaborate with your cousins and other users.

• Look around at existing biographies:
  • Investigate how they were edited
  • Learn how to create links to new pages
  • Learn how to create links to existing pages

• Include as much specific information as you can. List:
  • Parents
  • Birth date
  • Birth place
  • Brothers and sisters
  • Schools and churches attended
  • Places the family lived
  • Spouse(s)
  • Marriage date(s)
  • Marriage place(s)
  • Children
  • Occupation(s)
  • Military service
  • Civil service
  • Death date
  • Death place
  • Funeral information
  • Burial date
  • Burial place

• Create pages for each family member

• Include references to where your information originated.

• An obituary, alone, is not a biography. Rather, an obituary can be used to create a biography and can be used as part of a biography.

• If a person is living, DO NOT create a page for them. Instead, link them to the Living page