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Attending the meeting
Wilma Atkins, Maren Jeppsen, Lois Owen, James Tanner, Marilyn Markham, Liz Snow, Jana Stokes and Joy Bogar.

Anyone new to this meeting?

 * Marilyn Markham (happy to have back)


 * Maren Jeppsen (brings great expertise)


 * Patsy Hendrickson for taking minutes March 7 - Thank YOU!
 * LOIS (with said helper) linked FHL to all 29 counties of Utah! Thank YOU!
 * LIZ linked all 29 Utah Counties with the "Red Book" - except Washington! Thank YOU!
 * James completed recording over 10,000 graves in Arizona that have never been documented. Thank YOU!

News and Events
Review from March 14th


 * UGA Virtual Chapter, every 3rd Thursday, 7:00 p.m. (Mountain)
 * Saturday, June 9th, a Family History Fair will be held in Murray. Sponsored by FamilySearch? Details will follow.
 * July 31-Aug 3 BYU Family HistoryConference
 * Saturday, August 18th UGA Regional Conference in Cedar City. Sponsored by Cedar City Chapter, UGA
 * Friday and Saturday, September 21 and 22, UGA Regional Conference, Larry H. Miller Campus of Salt Lake Community College

Review of last meeting

 * March 14 minutes

Progress reports

 * Tip Bank in progress - thinking that a different tip would be placed on each county and the complete bank of all the tips would be linked for all 29 counties
 * Newspapers - Nationally digitized newspapers difficult to link to county articles
 * LOC published a history of each county
 * Wilma - excel spreadsheet documents a list of places to go to find LOC Library News Banks..
 * Newspaper Obituaries may be found in neighboring counties
 * Obituary project in 1978 - almost index of obituaries found before 1960

PROJECTS: Where has the community found obits (actively looking for Obits)


 * Libraries - need a format page - decide on the following


 * List all possible libraries *List only libraries that have some collections *List affiliate libraries where patrons can order from FHL


 * Photo Contest - UGA willing to donate a membership to the top three winners of Photos - 1st, 2nd and 3rd places - which will be determined by a drawing of all photos selected - 1 photo for each of the 29 counties. Photo....TBC One rule to add to Photo Contest - must create a user page....


 * Tables at the top of each county
 * Decided (I think) to keep the wording (Birth 1898-present)
 * Counties kept Birth records - Deaths at state level (1920)


 * Vital records from 1905 - (end date)and explain where else someone to look
 * Marriages - look in the correct state


 * WSMI Western State Marriage Index *BYUI now at BYU @ FHL
 * James - contacted workers in the Nephi Cemetery - was given the name of the sexton in the city building - had a hand written collection Vital records*

Projects

 * Marilyn -contact counties to see what records the have available - birth, death and marriages - and if they don't have a collection where to find the information.....state archives


 * Maren - check for Vitals at the state archives
 * Wilma - make task for all counties for Vital Records - where to find
 * Jana &amp; Patsy - wordsmith the Newspaper statement - make it come alive
 * Jana and Patsy - please address this section: Using Newspapers for FH
 * Joy - Photo Contest Rules and refinement
 * Joy - find online icon (cloud)
 * Add Icon to digital newspapers to all counties (?)
 * Wilma - template for Newspapers
 * Wilma - + Volunteers Chronicaling of Americn Newspapers for each county / list by town &amp; date and within the town link to Chronicaling of America "Click the Red link"

Libraries
Carried over from last March 7th =


 * Don’t want long lists of anything, including libraries, unless it’s a complied list on another page *Link to Utah Archives and Libraries page from each county *We will use a format for gathering information. Format not yet decided. *Pages created to link to Libraries and museums – so they can be used over and over *Pictures of Libraries would be helpful

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

Next week: March 28, 2012


 * Progress reports


 * List of projects listed above *Newspapers. Specific counties need to be also mentioned in&amp;nbsp; the task.&amp;nbsp;

To discuss soon:


 * Provide context continued *Tip Bank continued. *Vital records setup: making ready for items to be entered *Cemetery records *Church records