FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 Apr 4

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Agenda
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Meeting Participants:

News and Events

 * 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 FamilySearch? 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

Review of last meeting

 * Wednesday, 28 Mar

Progress reports

 * Photo info page no real progress since last week
 * Icons for tips: Decision to have a similar - but more colorful icon and indent tip information (No further progress)
 * Newspapers "blurb": Let's make a decision this week
 * Chronicling America page created by James Tanner.
 * Newspapers task: did create a few templates. Did not get with Liz about writing the task

Tasks to finish writing this week
Newspapers


 * What will be our process when we see that someone else has already entered something under Newspapers on a county page?
 * Finalize the content and style for the Newspapers topics

Obituaries

Tasks we need to get going on
We need to get these ready so we can make the task


 * What order shall we do them in: greatest need for users or quickest to write?
 * Or a combination of both.

Decided: we will add our votes to each one by Monday p.m.

Needing much discussion:


 * Vital records (WA: 1) (JS:1)
 * Cemetery records WA: 2) (JS:2)
 * Church records (WA: 4) (JS:3)
 * Libraries (WA: 3) (JS:4)

Do examples, get approval (may be quicker)


 * Funeral home records (WA: 4) (JS:4)
 * Land and property (WA: 3) (JS:2)
 * Probate (WA: 1) (JS:1)
 * Court (WA: 2) (JS:3)

[JS: By the way, are divorice records going to be part of vital records or court records?]

Libraries Discussion, con't
Yet to be addressed:


 * List only libraries that have collections - or list others as well
 * Link to Utah Archives and Libraries page from each county
 * Format for gathering information - not yet decided
 * Pictures of Libraries would be helpful

Summary of decisions to this point in the conversation


 * Bullets used with text of "four"or less items
 * Headings used for "five" or more items with only pertinent explanations
 * Indented text tip with small icon - icon yet to be determined
 * No extra lines between bullets will be used - keep text together

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.