FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 December 12

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Agenda
Meeting Participants: James had surgery last Monday. He was STILL in the hospital a couple of days ago. I imagine it was a hard time.

Wiki News
 * Problem with the CSS - grid lines in tables still don't show. Are we giving up hope?

News and Events

 * No UGA virtual chapter meeting in December
 * January 14-18, 2013 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG).
 * March 21-23, 2013 RootsTech

Review of last meeting
Discussion most about Cemeteries area. Liz took note of changes to make.

Progress reports

 * Project to post all FS Historical Records Collections to the county pages. Kudos to Jana!
 * Beginner's corner. Jana presented her page to the Thursday group.
 * Tracking projects, etc. was discussed in Thursday group, as an outgrowth of our discussions.
 * Cemetery Records progress:
 * Thanks, Liz, for your ideas and hard work.
 * Some discussion items re:Cemeteries
 * LDS Church records Phase 1 is well underway. Kudos to Jeff and Cathy Stevens, Elizabeth Kesler, Garreth (Bo) and Joy Bogar.
 * Finished task for Phase 1a -- doing the stakes. This was taught to missionaries Tuesday at 8:30 a.m.
 * Need suggestions from this group:


 * Task to add timelines from Jensen's: Marty and Bo will focus on Salt Lake City, Provo, Orem, St. George, Logan, Bountiful, Odgen to start.
 * Beginner's corner:
 * Joy and Jana talked about image approval. Joy will personally do those Jana contacts her about.
 * MurphyNW@familysearch.org -- he's a good one to contact about the beginners' corner. Shall I pave the way?


 * Gallery of images: Joy and I talked about this. Need a process, so others can submit images of the various counties and we won't have to maintain it. (More discussion in Nov 21 meeting. Get with Joy about those suggestions.)
 * Review citation of Delayed Birth Registration - dates started, etc. (Says 1941 on state page, but no citation.) - Pat did this several weeks ago, but we didn't view it. Thanks Pat!
 * Pat needs a stillbirth from 1942-1960

From last meeting:
 * Strategies How to Find Birth Information in the United States; United States, How to Find Genealogy Records:
 * James linked each of the articles back to the How to find Genealogy Records page.
 * Points out huge gaps - such as early immigrants, etc. Showing mostly UK roots rather than other
 * It is a great page to keep gathering articles, perhaps to organize sections not just rely on page names.
 * As anyone writes an article, they should add it to the list.
 * Suggest a topic for wiki articles

From previous meetings (no progress): 
 * Libraries:
 * Do the county newspaper pages: Wilma is learning how to extract the URL so we can make it go right to the correct area of Chronicling America - Wilma
 * Genealogical Surveys also mentioned in last meeting: Do only for Ogden, Davis, and others with large compilations..
 * Maps follow-up: Marilyn will check with Jason Harrison and David Dilts for what they are doing. Results:
 * Suggestion from last meeting not yet implemented: Newberry atlas of historical county boundaries.
 * Oldmapsonline.org draw a square around the area; USGS.gov maps digitizing them
 * FHLC links. To do: once Libraries section is ready, show the FHLC links to the person who has not liked them. Wilma:
 * Value and frequency of FHLC links - topic of a near future meeting.
 * Utah Record Selection Table needs updating. (Just keeping on the list until done)

Idea share
Most important (county) discussions remaining: (prioritized in last week's meeting)
 * 1 Death, Marriage
 * 1 Census
 * 1 Cemeteries
 * 1 Land
 * 1 Probate
 * Utah Record Selection Table

Minimum information for each topic:
 * Per project leaders meeting (Oct 23) and group meeting (Oct 31)


 * Blurb giving value and scope of the records
 * FHLC link
 * Link to the Utah page for that topic
 * Links to Ancestry.com and FS Historical Records collections Done by Jana early Nov.

"Boots on the ground" person or group to maintain, update, add to each county.
 * Ideas per group meeting Oct 31


 * UGA Patsy can get zips of UGA members and contact for their interest
 * FHCs in area - do they know someone they can suggest?
 * Libraries in area
 * ULA - Pat can email everyone asking for help

We are aiming at 19 December 2012 as completing what will be done as a project.