Familypedia:People Wigton Walker Research Template

Introduction
''This is an alternative form of the standard People Template. This version includes a slightly different organization, and some differences in section names. I'm looking for something a bit more straight forward, and at the same time, more fleixble. This is intended for use with pages whose focus is more on family history, than on presenting standard genealogical statistics of "born, married, died". Because its really a "family history" template, equal weight is given to the spouse, if possible.

''First copy to your person's page the whole of the "You may copy this:" section. Fill in what you can. In the date and location sections, the draft links that start with "wikipedia" will lead straight to the matching page on the English Wikipedia if the name or date replaces the "??"; vary them if you like, eg to link to a page on this Wikicity (where links to Wikipedia and other pages may be found).

''Lines or blocks starting with "" are comment sections, which don't show on the page. Remove the comment tags to make the lines visible when you have some information that fits in that section.

Where you can't find anything to go under a particular heading, leave that heading surrounded by its comment tags, to make it easy for a later editor who can use the heading.

If you want to start an indivudual who is not linked to an existing page, place a link to the individual on the page at Starting pages and the click on the link you have created.

You may copy this:
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Vita

 * Sex : Male/Female
 * Born: d at Location
 * Died: d at Location at age ??
 * Burial: d at Location

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 * Name (Birth-Death)

Contributors
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More explanations and suggestions
The links are in the format. If you do not know the year, use a single "?". The most unknown person is Unknown (?-?) or Unknown (?-?). Person's full name (BirthYear-DeathYear)

If you know approximately when someone was born or died, use one of the following prefixes. This helps when there are long lists of people for other researchers to see if the person they want to enter may already have a page. In all cases here the stated year includes the year, eg "before 1536" means in the year 1536 or earlier.


 * Before
 * After
 * About (or "c" for "circa")

It is often easy to estimate some of these details, particularly from children. For example, a woman cannot have died before the birth of her last child, or been born (in almost all cases) less than 14 years before the birth of her first child.

More than one name or partner
If a person has more than one name, then create a redirect page. At the moment we are using static pages rather than the wiki redirect command. See an example at Dorothy Marjoram (1916-1999), which is the alternative name for Lorna Dorothy Weily (1916-1999). This should only be done where there is a need for disambiguation and to list the person in their proper surname categories.

When a person has multiple partners, list the offspring against each partner using a ==Level 3 Heading== for the partner. An example is Louisa Maria Adams (1846-1907).

Use ==Level 3 Heading== for Full Blooded and Half Blooded siblings. See Lydia Cramp (1845-1929) as an example.

If name has to change
If more information is gained and the person's name is (1) expanded, (2) corrected, or (3) years added, use the "move" function on the web page. This will create a redirect from the old name ensuring that links are not broken from pages that link to the page being renamed.

If copying text from Wikipedia
See Template talk:enWP for the proper attribution.