Forum:Family/families pages and categories

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We've had a Category:Families for a long time. It has collected a few individual family pages but some have gone into regional categories. It really is time to rationalise them, especially now that we have the "/families" subpages derived straight from the "Articles" group in the county navboxes (those things you see at the top of most county pages).

So please put your next "family" or "families" page into its county category wherever possible (and you are welcome to list it on the county subpage too). See Nassau County, New York/families for the idea of how the pages relate and what you can have for parent and grandparent categories.

(Now we must start catering for the Southern Hemisphere...)

Robin Patterson 17:26, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Families pages related to counties

Here's a search for all pages that have "county" and "families" in their names:

Page title matches

• Blount County, Tennessee/families ... *Houston family 98 B (12 words) - 2007-11-20T03:33:26
• Carpenter families of Chautauqua County, New York This article is to organize the Carpenter families of Chautauqua County, New York. 5 KB (553 words) - 2008-08-08T03:24:02
• Waite families of Chautauqua County, New York This article is to organize the Waite families of Chautauqua County, New York. ==Other families== 4 KB (480 words) - 2008-08-02T16:34:32
• Harper families of County Antrim, Ireland ... Andrew Harper (c1795-aft1832)]] of Washington, D.C., was born in or around County Antrim, Northern Ireland. His paternal ancestry is believed to have origi ... 327 B (52 words) - 2008-02-05T08:36:42
• Earliest Miller families of Harrison County, Ohio ==Arrival Prior to the 1820 Census-The First Millers in the County== ... d the early Harrison County Millers into 11 families (although some of the families will likely be proven to be related, pending further research):
  5 KB (668 words) - 2008-04-18T06:44:07
• Category:Families of County Antrim Category:County Antrim Antrim 75 B (9 words) - 2008-07-08T15:42:55
• Category:Moore families of Rockbridge County, Virginia Category:families of Rockbridge County, Virginia Rockbridge County 110 B (13 words) - 2008-07-08T16:20:26
• Category:McPheeters families of Rockbridge County, Virginia Category:families of Rockbridge County, Virginia Rockbridge County 115 B (13 words) - 2008-07-08T16:21:39
• Category:Walker families of Rockbridge County, Virginia Category:families of Rockbridge County, Virginia Rockbridge County 111 B (13 words) - 2008-07-08T16:22:56
• Category:Families of Rockbridge County, Virginia Category:Rockbridge County, Virginia Rockbridge County 92 B (10 words) - 2008-07-08T16:25:05
• Category:Families of Nassau County, New York Category:Nassau County, New York Nassau County 84 B (12 words) - 2008-07-08T16:40:03
• Nassau County, New York/families ... *Willitt family of Nassau County, New York 215 B (31 words) - 2008-07-08T16:49:45
• Greene County, Ohio/families ... *Ohio-Greene County- Dean Family Farm 117 B (15 words) - 2008-07-09T05:08:47
• Category:Families of Greene County, Ohio Category:Greene County, Ohio Greene County 76 B (10 words) - 2008-07-09T05:11:57
• Webster County, Iowa/families * 145 B (18 words) - 2008-07-10T05:41:19
• Monroe County, Michigan/families ... oking for any information on Jacobs/Drew/and Strickland famalies in Monroe County Michigan 92 B (14 words) - 2008-09-24T14:23:36
• Buskirk/VanBuskirk families of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania This are lists information on Buskirk/VanBuskirk families of Luzerne COunty, Pennsylvania Category:Resided in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania 2 KB (224 words) - 2008-09-14T00:44:25

Grouping those in type order

(Categories appended)

Articles using surnames

• Buskirk/VanBuskirk families of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
• Carpenter families of Chautauqua County, New York
• Harper families of County Antrim, Ireland - Category:Families of County Antrim
• Earliest Miller families of Harrison County, Ohio
• Waite families of Chautauqua County, New York

Categories that have no article mentioning families in their names

• Category:McPheeters families of Rockbridge County, Virginia - Category:Families of Rockbridge County, Virginia
• Category:Moore families of Rockbridge County, Virginia - Category:Families of Rockbridge County, Virginia
• Category:Walker families of Rockbridge County, Virginia - Category:Families of Rockbridge County, Virginia
• Category:Families of Nassau County, New York

Articles not using surnames

(These are all "/families" subpages derived straight from the "Articles" group in the county navboxes. On another forum, it has been suggested - with no dissension - that they instead have ordinary names matching the category names, as in the Ohio example.)

• Blount County, Tennessee/families
• Monroe County, Michigan/families
• Webster County, Iowa/families
• Greene County, Ohio/families - Category:Families of Greene County, Ohio
• Nassau County, New York/families

Selected articles combining words "family" and "county"

(Some overlap with surname categories and "surname in place".)

• Houston family
• Willitt family of Nassau County, New York
• Ohio-Greene County- Dean Family Farm

Proposals for fixing some irregularities

(in preparation)

Robin Patterson 11:22, 30 September 2008 (UTC)