FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 Apr 18

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Agenda
Please excuse Wilma. She is on a research trip until the end of April.And also James Tanner...

Anyone new to this meeting?

Meeting Participants: Jana Stokes, Patsy Hendrickson, Liz Snow, Marilyn Markham, Maren Jensen

News and Events

 * Jane Colmenares can give great training. Contact Wilma (whadkins@burgoyne.com) if interested.


 * 1940 Census Help UGA's project with FamilySearch Indexing.
 * UGA Virtual Chapter, every 3rd Thursday, 7:00 p.m. (Mountain). 19 April topic: 1940 census with Tom McGill, FamilySearch
 * Saturday, June 9th, a Family History Fair will be held in Murray. Sponsored by Regional stakes. Details will follow.
 * BYU July31- Aug 3, BYU Conference on Family History &amp; Genealogy
 * Cedar City (August 18th) and Sandy (September 21 and 22) UGA Regional Conferences
 * Creation of Utah Wiki Project Forum (date to be announced- but soon)

Review of last meeting

 * Wednesday, 11 Apr

Need clarification on the tips and the tip bank and its location. Will it be on county page, state page, its on page, where will the links be.

Progress reports

 * Newspapers task. Liz and Jana have been doing this task and have encountered some blips they will explain. See remarks and/or talk page of Utah Tasks Newspapers
 * Some training was done with Jana and Liz as assistants to Wilma.
 * Obituaries task:
 * Icons for tips: Joy did a few more experiments

Meeting discussion April 18:


 * Decided we need a link from obits topic to newspapers topic on each page.
 * Also a link from the Utah County Newspaper page to obituary and newspaper topics of each county.
 * General protocol: each topic on our county pages if too lengthy will link to a separate page for that topic.
 * Marilyn suggested putting the years coverd for each newspaper on the top of the County Newspaper pages. Book at the FHL which gives the year dates.

Task for brief discussion
Topics that may need less discussion: Leader/assistants do examples, get suggestions and approval: Liz and Jana have volunteered to be assistants.


 * Obituaries


 * Do what on state level?

Future "quick" tasks:


 * Probate
 * Land and property
 * Court
 * Funeral home records

Vital records (BMD, Div)

 * County level


 * State level
 * In the Wiki contributors mtg Tues 17 Apr (Wilma gone) they presented the NY project as being done well and refered us to town page for an example..but I switch to county (Dutchess)....I thought they had some really good structure thoughts for the vital records section that we may want to consider. One thing they didn't do, that I would have done was make the vital records section a separate page. JanaStokes 22:33, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Future:


 * 1) Cemeteries
 * 2) Church
 * 3) Libraries

Ideas for info on county page or having a separate page for Vital Records topic section:


 * start on county page and if topic gets too large, then link to separate page
 * need a general intro paragraph about general vital records and substitute records, then have links to other pages
 * if problem arises where general public is adding info that makes topic too long, we could put a sentence that says "please add more info to other page". Then put link to other page.
 * may consider a "gardener" for pages to keep watch and move "weeds" to other applicable pages.
 * decision to discuss topics for Vital Records section next meeting.

Future meetings
Meetings will be held on Wednesdays at 9:00 a.m.

Next week:


 * Progress reports
 * To be determined by the group

To discuss soon:

Tasks for:


 * Vital records setup: making ready for items to be entered
 * Cemetery records
 * Church records
 * Funeral home records
 * Land and property
 * Probate
 * Court


 * Provide context continued
 * Tip Bank continued.