FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 June 27

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Agenda
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Meeting Participants:

News and Events

 * July 19 Virtual presentation presented by Sue Maxwell, Strategies for Searching Using Ancestry. 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

Review of last meeting

 * Wednesday, 20 June

Progress reports

 * Tip icon now has green bar, has been placed in "Parent Counties" area.
 * The revised Table at top is now on every county.
 * Work was done on the Probate and Land records topics. Will review in a few moments. Thanks Jana.
 * A missionary is working on the History Timeline of each county for events that affected records, record-keeping, and migration.
 * She is searching the county and towns using Wikipedia and Utah History Encyclopedia.
 * Will cite sources.
 * Will then copy info to other areas, as appropriate. Example: "1856. Settlers came from Cedar City, Utah to [town in this county]" should also be placed under migration.
 * Another missionary is being trained to copy the map on the Utah page to make "surrounding counties" maps (color!) for the county pages.

"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:


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

Vital records (BMD, Div)
Birth in bulleted style Suggest resources, review for dates and content.

How ready are we to create a task description for birth?

Discussion minutes:

Summary of minutes:

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