User talk:Wahoozel

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Sources [12 November 2010]

Hi, welcome to WeRelate! I'm Brenda, one of the volunteer administrators for the site. I was reviewing Source:Bremond, Robertson, Texas, United States. St. Mary's Catholic Church Baptism Records and found a website with a bit of history about St. Mary's, and I thought you might be interested. I added the info to the Source page.

I also added some info on where to find the Baptism records (the Polish-Texans website says they are available at the Texas Catholic Archives). After adding a new source (which one often does "on the fly," while updating a person or family page), it's great if you can later go back and add items like this to the source page, so that future WeRelate users can use Source pages as finding aids as well as references. This isn't a requirement...the source you added was complete and well done. But I wanted to take a minute and explain why I had added items to the page, and encourage you, when you had time, to add similar additional info. Thanks! --Brenda (kennebec1) 11:56, 11 November 2010 (EST)

Thank you for editing the source. However, I wasn't really ready to release this source. I have been to the Catholic Archives and have copies of the baptism records in question. My intention, when I had more time, was to actually post the scanned version for each of the baptism records. True, I did retrieve them from the Catholic Archives, but I wanted to link them to the actual image before I was ready to call the source finished.

If I shouldn't post anything until I have a fully flushed out record, then just let me know.--Wahoozel 16:47, 11 November 2010 (EST)

It is fine to post the source as a work in progress... keep in mind, though, that most pages in a wiki are open to editing by other users. There are a couple of different approaches to take to the images you have and how they relate to the source page, depending on how closely you want to link the source to these specific images and how much you would like the source to remain specific to your needs (versus more general purpose to be used by others).

The most typical approach would be post the images on the person page they relate to, and link them on the person page to the source. An example of this (on one of my Ancestry-imported page, which is still a bit "messy" and a work in progress) might be the naturalization image on Person:Louis Remeschatis (1). If you click on edit, you can see that images I1 and I2 are linked to source S4. If I go to the Source page Source:New York, United States. Naturalization Records of New York State, the images do not appear, but if I click on "What links here" in the left side navigation bar, Person:Louis Remeschatis (1) is listed. I could add images to this source page in the text box, but that could result in hundreds of images from all the persons who used Source:New York, United States. Naturalization Records of New York State, and then the page would take forever to open!

Anyay, this approach has the advantage of linking the images to the applicable person as well as to the source, although due to a quirk in the programming, if you just add an image to a person page WITHOUT putting the image number in the applicable source, the image will show up more visibly. You can see the difference if you look at Person:Carl Remeschatis (1).

The other approach is to create sources that are specific to you; what we call a "MySource," and add images to that source page (and/or to the person page). If you want the source you created to reflect only the Birth certificates you have copies of (rather then the place where all birth certificates for the church can be found), then a MySource makes the most sense. The MySource pages help can give you some more insight into MySources. If you want to add images to a text box (on any page), rather than using the "Image Gallery" section on a Person or Family page, check out the Images tutorial, especially section 4.

Both approaches will work at WeRelate. The first approach keeps the "specific-to-the-person" info on the Person or Family page, and makes the source a more general purpose reference. The second approach allows "specific-to-the-person" info to be integrated to both the Person and MySource page.

Hope this helps and isn't too overwhelming!--Brenda (kennebec1) 16:10, 12 November 2010 (EST)

Orphan [31 December 2014]

Hi there,

I'm reviewing recent changes and noticed that this person doesn't have parents or a family -- Person:Aaron Michael (1). Looks like he fits in with your other recent edits, but didn't want you to lose him!--Amelia 19:16, 31 December 2014 (UTC)