Instructions for Entering Service Personnel

Information that would be useful in a biography includes

• Photo
• Birth (date, place, parents)
• Education
• Military Service
• Marriage and Children
• Occupation
• Death (date and burial)
• Other Media (newspaper articles, service papers, obituary, etc.)
• Gallery (photos)

Instructions

Please add a name below in alphabetical order. To do so, first register then sign in. You will see an Edit tab to the right. Click on it and enter a name in the sample format shown below. Go the bottom of this page and click Show Preview. The name should then appear in red. If it looks OK, go to the bottom of the page again and click on Save Page. If you click on the name you can then add a biography. You need not write a biography to add a name to the list.

• register
• sign in
• Go to the town page
• Go to the page for the war in which the veteran served
• go to edit tab
• towards the bottom of the page is the Edit panel
• Under ==Service Personnel== you will put the person's name in alphabetical order, last name first
• start the line with an * followed by [[, then the person's last name, fist name, MI and ending with ]] as follows

==Service Personnel==

• click on Preview on bottom of page to preview what the page will look like. The person's name should be in red with a "Bullet" before it like this
• Last, First MI

• if it looks correct then add another name, if you have one to add
• when you are done, Preview and Save.
• click on the persons name in red that you have added to start their biography. You will be taken to a new page with that person's name at the top.
• copy the following outline and paste it on the person's new biography page

Other Media

This is the place to either add a transcription of a document or an image of a document.

• For a transcription, put the name of the source below ==Other Media== between a set of triple = signs like this example:

==Other Media==

===[[Altamont Enterprise]]===

• Then add the transcription, or go to the left column to Upload File to add an image of the article that you have previously saved to your computer. For instructions on uploading images you should add a Gallery in which to place the images. See Instructions for Editing Hilltown Landscapes. for how to add a Gallery and upload images to it.

Once you have added a transcription or a Gallery of one or more images:

• click on Preview on bottom of page to preview what the page will look like.
• if it looks correct then go to Upload File for another image if appropriate.
• every page must have one or more Categories. For these biographies there are four that should be added in the panel on the last line are as follows:

[[Categrory:Biography ]] [[Category:{town}]][[Category:Military]] [[Category:{war}]]

• Copy and past the line above and past it in the biography as the last line.
• change {town} to: Berne, Knox, Westerlo, or Rensselaerville
• change {war} to: Revolutionary War, 1812, Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean Conflict, Vietnam War

• when you are done, click on Preview at the bottom of the page; if it looks correct then click on Save.
• If you need more information you can go to Hell...I mean Help.