JACKSON OVERVIEW
- An April 20 quote from Dallan indicates a need for more definite guidelines of what folks would find helpful on a surname page.
- "The Surname pages and 'surname in place' category pages are the cause of some confusion, and I'm starting to think that they cause more confusion than they're worth. They're not used very much, and it's difficult to know what to put on them. We need to keep the Surname pages so that when you check 'Related names' in the search form, the system knows what additional names to search for."
- So I am opening this up for suggestions and discussion.
- I believe I would like to have links to Jackson In Place pages starting first with the 50 states and overseas folks could add whatever they wish.
- As an after thought; maybe these pages would be 'shared research pages' and the surname page should link to the shared research pages.
- So I added links to Jackson in all 50 states; as of 23 Apr 2008 only two are already created pages. This will be interesting to see grow.
- As of June 8 2008 I made the list of states into table form for ease of use.
- Then each Jackson-in-state page would be a transitional page to get to the county pages. The state pages would have a list of the counties, date of organization and the mother county of each. I would then not try to duplicate all the info in name place pages, but would emphasize only what is pertinent to Jackson info in that place.
- Example of items to include on Jackson-in-County pages would be
- links to Jackson census transcriptions, if available, though images would be better
- lists of Jackson marriages in the county, broken down by year
- lists of early Jackson births in the county,
- lists of Jackson trees linked to the person pages of the earliest Jacksons in your tree who lived in that locality.
- What else can you add to the list?
--Janiejac 23:20, 21 April 2008 (EDT)
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