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From The Muniment Room, a resource for social history, family history, and local history.

Some visitors use the Muniment Room to acquire knowledge, others to share knowledge; in either case, the site seeks to involve the visitor in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration. For a general introduction to finding your way around the site, see: Hints to assist the enquiries of visitors.

• Log in problems
• FAQ: Navigation, searching, and general use of the site

Contents 1 Contributing to the site 2 Help guide 3 Reading 4 Editing 4.1 Advanced editing 4.2 Personal customization 5 Wiki administration

Contributing to the site

• FAQ: Contributing and editing
• If you want to publicly ask a specific question or announce your research interest, use the Reference Desk.
• If you want to comment on a particular topic in an article, then use the article's discussion' page (click on the article's 'discussion' tab).
• How to edit an existing page
• Overview of the editing process
• Cheatsheet
• How do I start a new page?
• [MediaWiki Help]
• Ask a question for assistance.

Help guide

Reading

• Navigation
• Searching
• Tracking changes
• Watchlist

Editing

• Editing pages
• Starting a new page
• Formatting
• Links
• User pages
• Talk pages
• Signatures

Advanced editing

• Images
• Tables
• Categories
• Subpages
• Managing files
• Moving (renaming) a page
• Redirects

• Templates
• Variables
• Namespaces

• Special pages
• External searches

Personal customization

• Preferences

Wiki administration

• Sysops and permissions