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Help Guide

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 Genealogy Wiki:

Wikia and Wikipedia help pages:

Wikia Central's help category
Wikia Central's help index page
MediaWiki Editor Handbook, the help pages for the software we're using
Wikipedia help contents

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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.
+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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-==Principal Help Pages==
+==Principal help pages==
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 Wikia and Wikipedia help pages:
-* [[w:Category:Help|The help category on Wikia Central]]
+* [[w:Category:Help|Wikia Central's help category]]
 *[[w:Help:Contents|Wikia Central's help index page]]
 * [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editor MediaWiki Editor Handbook], the help pages for the software we're using
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-==Other Helpful Pages==
+==Other helpful pages==
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-*[[Help/Just Starting|Just Starting?]]
+*[[Help/Just Starting|Just starting?]]
-*[[Help/Using Templates|Using Templates]]
+*[[Help/Using Templates|Using templates]]
-*[[Help/HTML Guidance|HTML Guidance]]
+*[[Help/HTML Guidance|HTML guidance]]
-*[[Help/Frequently Answered Questions|Frequently Answered Questions]]
+*[[Help/Frequently Answered Questions|Frequently asked questions]]
-*[[Help/Making Tables|Making Tables]]
+*[[Help/Making Tables|Making tables]]
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