Adding & Editing a Church or Cemetery Page

If you created your page using the "Add Content" method, then this field will initially be empty.  If you used the "Clone" method, then the Title field will be pre-filled with "Clone of.." , similar to the upper screenshot.  Either way, you need to ensure that the field is filled-in/edited to reflect the "new" church.

The "Title" field must have three elements, each separated by a comma, and these three elements are:

1. The name of the church, or it's dedication (i.e. "St Anthony", "Centenary Chapel"), or else the street name on which it is located.
2. The name of the town, village or locality where the church is located.
3. The congregation's religious denomination (if a church), or else a suitable description (i.e. "cemetery", "burial ground").

County field

In this field enter the name of the county in which this church is located. If you are in any doubt about the spelling, then it would be best to check-out the list of counties on the relevant country page (here: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Channel Islands, Isle of Man) .

This field is for the name of the town or civil parish that this church lies within.

If there is a place is already listed (Drumbo in this example) then click on "Replace" if you need to change it. 

If there isn't already a place listed, then just click on "PARENT PLACE".

You'll now see the "Choose parent place" box. 

1. In the "Place" box, type in the name of the town or parish.
2. Optionally, fill-in the "County" box (to filter the options)
3. Click the "Filter list of possible parents" button.
4. Select one place from the list that appears.
5. Click the "Set parent" button.

If the list of places is long and gives you far too many choices, try entering a county name in the "County" box and pressing the "Filter list..." button again.

This is used for grouping churches & cemeteries on various pages and also for colour-coding church pins on the "Nearby Churches" maps.

Make a selection from the drop-down list that most-closely reflects the main group into which the congregation's religious denomination falls. For example, the Church of England, Church of Ireland and Church in Wales fall into the "Anglican" grouping.  If you aren't sure, you can always select "Other".

This field is used to enter the location of this church on a map. You can do this in two ways.

The first way uses the longitude & latitude values for the location of this church.  One way to obtain those would be to open Googlemaps and right-click on the location of this church.  Although be aware that Googlemaps gives the figures with latitude, then longitude, so you'll need to switch them around!

Once you have the longitude & latitude values, then:

• Enter the longitude & latitude values in the "Geometry data..." field; which must use the format shown in the screenshot, with longitude first.
• Click the "Replace" button
• Check the "Precision" field is showing "Exact location..".

The "Precision" field is a drop-down selection list, which has options for the occasions when you do not know the exact location of the church.  For example where the church has long since fallen into disuse and no physical trace of it remains.

The alternative method is to create a pin and move it to the appropriate location on a map.  To do this, scroll to the "Location" map and then:

1. If necessary, use the zoom control (on the left of the map) and move the map to show the desired location (using your mouse, with the left mouse button held down).
2. Centre the map  on the general location of the church, then zoom-in until your can make out it's exact location.
3. If it helps to find the correct location, toggle the map layers between "Street" and "Satellite" views.
4. Click on the Pin (balloon-shaped) icon on the right of the map, then drag it to the required position.  When you're happy with the positioning, click the Pin icon again.
5. Scroll down to the "Precision" box and ensure that is set to "Exact location...".

IF a congregation has moved location at some point, it is possible to add BOTH locations to this church entry, and bothmap-marker pins will appear on the maps showing churches in that area.  To add a second location,  simply click on the "Add Another Location" button and repeat the process outlined above.

This is a short-cut web address that will be used to link this new page with related GENUKI pages (such as the page for the town or parish in which it is located. it must be of the format: /big/XXX/CCC/Town/Church.   The first three of these indicate where the church is located:

• XXX is the Code for the country (use eng for England, sct for Scotland, wal for Wales, irl for Ireland, chi for the Channel Islands and iom for the Isle of Man).
• CCC is the Chapman Code for the county or island (e.g. LAN for Lancashire, DOW for County Down, BEW for Berwickshire, FLN for Flintshire, GSY for Guernsey).
• Town is the name of the town or parish (e.g. "Armagh", "Hamner").

The last element is simply something which differentiates that church from other nearby churches (e.g. "StMichael", "StMichaelRC", "CentenaryChapel").  But ensure that there are no spaces within whatever name you choose!

Log in to your GENUKI account, open your newly-created church page and click on the "Edit" tab:

We've already covered the Church Type field and the Denomination field allows you to be a little more specific; especially if you set the Church Type to "Other".  Some examples would be:

The Dedication field

The instructions below the field (see screenshot) explains everything!

If a photograph is already showing, but it isn't the correct one (e.g. a photo from the church that you cloned) then you should remove the link between the photo and this church by clicking on the "x" in the top-right corner of the photo thumbnail:

If you have a photograph of this church on your own laptop then to upload it:

1. Click on the "Add Media" button.
2. In the pop-up window that appears, click on the "Browse" button in the "Add Files" box.
3. Find the photograph on your laptop and highlight it.
4. Click "Insert".

In the pop-up box that then appears:

1. Enter a suitable "Alternative text" for the benefit of anyone with poor eyesight who may be using screen-reader software.
2. Enter a suitable desriptive title for your photograph.
3. Select "Church photos" from the "Category" drop-down selection list.
4. Enter the name of the County in which this church lies ad (below that box, but not visible in the screenshot) the name of the town/parish in which this church lies and, below that, the name of the  copyright holder. #
5. Finally click the "Save and insert" button to upload your photograph.

# Please note that you must not upload a photograph unless you have the permission of the copyright holder to do so  Normally, the copyright holder will be the person who took the original photograph.

Although it isn't essential, you can enter the postal address for this church into this field.

If you happen to know the relevant website for this church then you can link your page to it in this way:

1. Use your mouse to highlight the name of the church in the "Address" field.
2. Click on the "Link" icon (or press [Ctrl] with [k]) and a pop-up box appears.
3. Enter the website address in the "URL" box.
4. Press the "OK" button.
    

There are a number of "optional" form fields, with the three you're most likely to need on a church page are: Church Records, Church History and Memorial Inscriptions. 

Only the fields that currently hold information will appear on your Editing screen, so you may need to add one or more of these fields if you have information to put into them.  To do that, scroll down until you see the "TOPIC" subheading, then:

1. click on the "Add another Topic" button, after which you will see a "Topic Type" listed as " -None - "  with a blank "Topic Content" form field. So you can now:
2. Use the drop-down list to select the "Topic Type" you need.
3. Enter your detailed information in the "Topic content" box.

This field allows you to enter a summary of the history of this church.

Ideally you'd list at least the year that this church opened, whether or not it is still in use and, if it is no longer in use, the year it closed.

If a more detailed history is available online (for example, on the website of the church's congregation, or of a local history group) it would be a good idea to provide a link to that.

How to add a link to another website is explained in the "The Address field" instructions above.

This field is where you can enter details of what records for this church (for example, baptism, marriage or burial registers) exist.

Try to indicate the nature of the records, which years they cover and where they can be found.  If they are available to view online, try to provide a link to the relevant website and indicate whether the records are free-to-view or if a subscription is required. (How to add a link to another website is explained in the "The Address field" instructions above).

You can use whatever layout of information is easiest for you. You might find it useful to use some sort of template, pre-filled with more obvious local, county, national & internet sources (as that would also serve to remind you of the sources you have yet to check), similar to this one:

Or you could just use a simple list, as in this screenshot:

This field is where you can enter details of what transcriptions (or photographs) of gravestone & memorial inscriptions for this church exist and where they can be found. 

If they are available to view online (for example, the Find-a-Grave website), try to provide a link to the relevant website and indicate whether the records are free-to-view or if a subscription is required.

How to add a link to another website is explained in the "The Address field" instructions above.