FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 Apr 18

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Agenda
Please excuse Wilma. She is on a research trip until the end of April.And also James Tanner...

Anyone new to this meeting?

Meeting Participants: Jana Stokes, Patsy Hendrickson, Liz Snow, Marilyn Markham, Maren Jensen

News and Events

 * Jane Colmenares can give great training. Contact Wilma (whadkins@burgoyne.com) if interested.


 * 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 Regional stakes. 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
 * Creation of Utah Wiki Project Forum (date to be announced- but soon)

Review of last meeting

 * Wednesday, 11 Apr

Liz Snow 16:12, 18 April 2012 (UTC) Committee needs:

clarification on the tips and the tip bank and its location. Will it be on county page, state page, its own page, where will the links be.

Discussion:


 * No additions or corrections made to April 11 minutes. Liz Snow 16:09, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Progress reports

 * Newspapers task. Liz and Jana have been doing this task and have encountered some blips they will explain. See remarks and/or talk page of Utah Tasks Newspapers
 * Some training was done with Jana and Liz as assistants to Wilma.
 * Obituaries task:
 * Icons for tips: Joy did a few more experiments

Meeting discussion April 18:Liz Snow 16:09, 18 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Decided we need a link from obits topic to newspapers topic on each page.
 * Also a link from the Utah County Newspaper page to obituary and newspaper sections of that county.
 * General protocol: each topic on our county pages if too lengthy will link to a separate page for that topic.
 * Marilyn suggested putting the years covered for each newspaper on the top of the County Newspaper pages. Book at the FS Library Newspapers on Micorform which gives the year dates.
 * On newspaper task, continue with task as written, if additional items need to be added to newspaper topic paragraph, then write a new task which includes these items.

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


 * Obituaries


 * Do what on state level?

Future "quick" tasks:


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

Discussion: Liz Snow 16:10, 18 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Didn't discuss obituaries or probate, land &amp; property, court and funeral home records. We will discuss these when Wilma returns.

Vital records (BMD, Div)

 * County level


 * State level
 * In the Wiki contributors mtg Tues 17 Apr (Wilma gone) they presented the NY project as being done well and refered us to town page for an example..but I switch to county (Dutchess)....I thought they had some really good structure thoughts for the vital records section that we may want to consider. One thing they didn't do, that I would have done was make the vital records section a separate page. JanaStokes 22:33, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Future:


 * 1) Cemeteries
 * 2) Church
 * 3) Libraries

Meeting discussion: Liz Snow 16:10, 18 April 2012 (UTC) Ideas for info on county page or having a separate page for Vital Records topic section:


 * start on county page and if topic gets too large, then link to separate page
 * need a general intro paragraph about general vital records and substitute records, then have links to other pages
 * if problem arises where general public is adding info that makes topic too long, we could put a sentence that says "please add more info to other page". Then put link to other page.
 * may consider a "gardener" for pages to keep watch and move "weeds" to other applicable pages.
 * decision to discuss topics for Vital Records section next meeting.

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.