FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 June 6

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Agenda
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Meeting Participants:

News and Events

 * June 9 (Saturday) Murray Family History Fair Saturday, June 9th. Click on Classes.
 * June 16 (Saturday) Mormon History Bus Tours of Echo Canyon and of East Canyon.
 * June 21 Supercharge Your Research: Cut Ten Years off Your Learning Curve presented by Barry Ewell. This is the UGA Virtual Chapter meeting which occurs every 3rd Thursday, 7:00 p.m. (Mountain).
 * July 31-Aug 3 BYU Conference on Family History &amp; Genealogy
 * August 18 (Saturday) UGA Regional Conference Cedar City
 * September 21 and 22 (Friday and Saturday) UGA Regional Conference Sandy


 * 1940 Census Help UGA's project with FamilySearch Indexing.
 * Creation of Utah Wiki Project Forum (date to be announced- but soon Forums were changed yesterday -- there is a thread for Wiki Projects. There is a new subforum. Put up a page in the wiki and thread in forums.

Review of last meeting

 * Wednesday, 23 May

Progress reports

 * Tip icon template review: Steve gave us a few options, including color of the bar.
 * Newspapers update: Wilma with input from Jana and Liz.
 * Obituaries task description totally ready and tested by (Lois?).
 * [Name] has expressed interest in helping. She has been contacted and ....
 * Patsy made meeting recordings reviewable by public.
 * Review the revised Table at top by Jana, Liz, Wilma

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

Future "quick" tasks to write:


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

Vital records (BMD, Div)

 * Continue discussion of charts vs. bullets: View some examples Wilma did in Word (for Pulaski County, KY. Why? Jana had a great example that gives many conversation points. Focus is NOT on that county, but on:
 * Chart vs. bullet
 * Types of resources (state or county only) (Linking to details and search tips?)
 * Length whether bullet or chart (when to do a separate page)

Discussion minutes: None made during discussion

Summary of minutes:


 * Bullet style was selected. Jana, Wilma, Liz will have something to review next week for 1) dates and 2) content under dates
 * For a particular year, list resources for that topic (birth). If list other resources, such as for Death, do not list them. Link them instead to Death for that county.
 * When listing non-birth resources, tell the user what birth information they may learn
 * Link to state page rather than listing each one under each county.

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

Next week:


 * Progress reports
 * Future focus for discussions:


 * Church records
 * Cemetery records
 * Library area of each county


 * Tip Bank