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Whether you are new to the Wiki, or an old hand, there are occasions when you may need a bit of help to figure something out. This page is intended to list the most useful "Help:" pages. You may find it convenient to refer to this page for guidance when problems arise. Its easy to edit a page on the Wiki, but with experience you're bound to run into more complex problems. This page may help you find the answers, though you can always drop a message on someone's "talk page" and they may be able to help you. But if you see a problem that doesn't seem to have a solution, please let us know---or if you figure out a solution to a problem, you might want to create a help page of your own to explain your discovery. Hey, we all need help from time to time, and we all go farther, faster, the more we help one another.
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Whether you are new to the wiki, or an old hand, there are occasions when you may need a bit of help to figure something out. You may find it convenient to refer to this page for guidance when problems arise. Its easy to edit a page on the wiki, but with experience you're bound to run into more complex problems. '''This page may help you find the answers, as may a posting at the [[forum:help desk|help desk]]''', though you can always drop a message on someone's "talk page" and they may be able to help you. If you see a problem that doesn't seem to have a solution, please let us know---or if you figure out a solution to a problem, you might want to create a help page of your own to explain your discovery. Hey, we all need help from time to time, and we all go farther, faster, the more we help one another.
 
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Here's a set of links to some of the most useful general purpose help pages
  
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On this Genealogy Wiki:
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On this Familypedia Wiki:
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*[[Help:Create an account]]
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*[[Forum:Help desk|Ask your own questions]]
 
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*[[help:Editing|General editing guidance]]
  
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*[[help:Images|Inserting images]]
  
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*http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_University
 
* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editor MediaWiki Editor Handbook], the help pages for the software we're using
  
* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editor MediaWiki Editor Handbook], the help pages for the software we're using
 
* [[Wikipedia:Help:Contents|Wikipedia help contents]]
  
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HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) and its variants, is what is used to format web pages. Ultimately, every web page is set up using HTML. Wikis like this one, however, are built in such a way that you may never need to know a speck of HTML; page formating required for most articles is amply accommodated by the Edit Menu Bar that appears when you open a page to edit it You can do quite nicely with this as your only formating tool, maybe with a few other bits of simple coding that you gradually learn. (Some browsers, notably Safari, are not supported in the current version of the underlying WikiMedia---so if you can't see the EditMenuBar, try a different browser).<br>
  
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Latest revision as of 10:16, 6 March 2021

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Help Guide
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Whether you are new to the wiki, or an old hand, there are occasions when you may need a bit of help to figure something out. You may find it convenient to refer to this page for guidance when problems arise. Its easy to edit a page on the wiki, but with experience you're bound to run into more complex problems. This page may help you find the answers, as may a posting at the help desk, though you can always drop a message on someone's "talk page" and they may be able to help you. If you see a problem that doesn't seem to have a solution, please let us know---or if you figure out a solution to a problem, you might want to create a help page of your own to explain your discovery. Hey, we all need help from time to time, and we all go farther, faster, the more we help one another.

==Principal help pages==

Here's a set of links to some of the most useful general purpose help pages

On this Familypedia Wiki:

Wikia and Wikipedia help pages:

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