Talk:User group meeting agenda 3 March 2009

Unlikely sources
Google Books have more books than we know of. The source is WorldVitalRecords.com. An user and I looked at them and realized there are much more books not ready apparent.

To find the family history books, go to WorldVitalrecords.com's search engine, enter only 'place names" and to all location places only.

The results show many more family history books that BYU Family Archives and FHL don't even have. The user thought they should be listed and linked at county and city/town levels since these books may be the cracks we are looking for in the brick walls.

The user and I whipped out the preference order of books:


 * 1) BYU Family History Archives (F)
 * 2) Google Books, predating the copyright (they are usually shown with PDF downloads) (F)
 * 3) WorldCat books
 * 4) Heritagequestonline.com (they do have a lot of the books, requiring (LAR )
 * 5) Text Transcriptions (usually found at free sites such as USGenWeb county sites or in the USGenWeb Archives or similiar sites
 * 6) Family History books (not digitalized yet)
 * 7) Google Books, post-dating - often with snippets leading to the sources to buy the books.

dsammy 01:15, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Exposed or Masked Urls for official goverment sites
Personally, having been involved with the Wikipedia, the standard practice is that they are exposed, not masked.

I felt they must continued to be exposed in the Wiki for very obvious reasons - to ensure that the urls are current without having to open each time just to check. This is the reason the sysops prefer the urls be exposed for cities and counties. 3,300 plus counties plus who know how many cities having their own pages can be very very daunting task to check for masked urls.

These exposed urls should always be in the upper section (Quick Facts, Quick History or whatever the section may be named containing snippets of quick facts.)

For this reason, I would rather have a decision be made sooner than later before it become a nightmare. dsammy 01:15, 26 February 2009 (UTC)