FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 Mar 28

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Agenda
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Meeting Participants: Wilma Adkins, Darlene Hagberg, Jana Stokes, Lois Owen, Liz Snow, Patsy Hendrickson, James Tanner, Marilyn Markham, Maren Jeppsen, Joy Bogar

News and Events

 * 1940 Census release, April 2, 2012
 * 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 July 26-29, 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, 21 Mar

Briefly scanned the minutes.

Progress reports

 * Top charts on counties: Decided to keep vital records as stated: "1867- present"
 * Daggett County to be checked - and the table may read: "for earlier dates check parent county"
 * Photo info page Joy and I did a little, but no real progress since last week


 * Wilma made significant progress with Icons for tips
 * Decision to have a similar - but more colorful icon and indent tip information (see below links)
 * Group liked the "Tips look and feel. Played with a couple"
 * Newspapers paragraphs created and will be downsized

Tasks to finish writing this week

 * Newspapers
 * "Specific counties need to be mentioned in the task" I did not remember what was meant here.
 * Worked on the area and sent email to all who attended. Received GREAT feedback, which tells me:


 * 1) We need a style guide, a format which works for most topics on a county page.
 * 2) Link to pages about each category of a repository. (Practiced with a little of this. See Newspapers2) Newpaper2 items listed in order of importance, bullets, explaintation

Volumteer Assignments:

1. Jana and Patsy to "wordsmith" - edit Newspaper1 (May create Newspaper4)

2. Wilma "wordsmith" edit Newspaper2

3. Marilyn "wordsmith" edit Newspaper3

4. James - create a new page/article on "How to use "Chronicaling of America" How to access it and what is CA about....involves creating back links, explanittion, will need to use Multi-Media items and link LOC to CA

5. Wilma and Liz - create tasks via email

Style Guide (is Darris Williams doing this guide?)

County Pages - keep them to the point and link to explaination pages

Style guide mentioned then explanitation linked and repeated on each county

Bullet list easier to see for "five" or less items

Heading better for "6" or more - however a using a separate page for more text is a huge commitment

Suggested a "step" article

Headings are important for descriptions

Decision: No spaces between lines - keep text all together - may revisit this again


 * Obituaries

Libraries Discussion, con't

 * Create a format page for gathering information about Utah libraries and their colletions: first focus - local (rural areas) libraries?
 * What do we put in the "Libraries" area of each county: View Albany County, NY example
 * List every possible library?
 * List only those which may have a dedicated room or collection? (And let people work with them to fill in the form as they wish?)
 * Other:

Summary of decisions to this point in the conversation


 * Don’t want long lists of anything, including libraries, unless it’s a compiled 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:


 * Progress reports
 * To be determined by the group

To discuss soon:


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