FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 May 8

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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). 17 May topic:
 * 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, 18 Apr

Progress reports

 * See current "Tip" icon: Utah Newspapers Suggestions:
 * Newspapers task: Several counties done, soon will be testing the instructions on new people (who could turn out to be contributors. A bigger purpose is to make the task instructions "doable," should others want to do the same for their states or counties.
 * Three meetings with Jana and Liz as assistants to Wilma. Our objective is to get something started on a topic, so people in the regular meeting can respond, give feedback, new ideas, etc. We also organize notes from previous discussions so we can move forward steadily. To objective: to bring out each person's ideas and knowledge to make each topic very helpful and clear.
 * Ideas for formatting Vital Records have been set forth. More in the discussion area.

Review wording, etc. for the county newspaper page.

Idea share
Review wording, etc. for the county newspaper page.

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.

Nothing further has been done on "Quick" tasks this past 3 weeks.

Future "quick" tasks:


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

Vital records (BMD, Div)
Vital Records ideas. Responses to:
 * Date concept
 * Suggestions for before county formed? Before Territory?
 * Table concept
 * "Suggestions" Alternate/Substitute
 * How deep to go with suggestions
 * How deep to go with suggestions

Specific sources mentioned in 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.