Degree Name

Department

History

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Defense Date

2024-07-26

Publication Date

2024-08-01

First Faculty Advisor

Jill Crandell

First Faculty Reader

Sarah Guerrero

Honors Coordinator

Daren Ray

Keywords

Scotland, Wikipedia

Abstract

While the FamilySearch Research Wiki provides a valuable resource for genealogical references for countries across the globe, its potential is bottlenecked by having a small pool of editors compared to sites like Wikipedia. The webpages for each Scottish parish have fallen by the wayside, with most not receiving any material update in a decade. This project reflection highlights the choices made and processes taken in order to revitalize the Scottish locality pages of the Research Wiki following the verification of civil, ecclesiastical, and probate jurisdictions for each parish in Scotland. This included making an interactive jurisdiction map in ArcGIS Experience Builder, designing an infobox, and reformatting nearly one thousand individual webpages. It also highlights the next steps necessary to ensure that Scottish articles provide accurate and valuable encyclopedic information of genealogical resources for genealogists and historians in the years to come.