FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 Mar 7

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Agenda
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News and Events

 * UGA Virtual Chapter, every 3rd Thursday, 7:00 p.m. (Mountain)
 * Saturday, June 9th, a Family History Fair will be held in Murray. Sponsored by FamilySearch? Details will follow.
 * July? Aug? BYU Family History
 * Saturday, August 18th UGA Regional Conference in Cedar City. Sponsored by Cedar City Chapter, UGA
 * Friday and Saturday, September 21 and 22, UGA Regional Conference, Larry H. Miller Campus of Salt Lake Community College

Review of last meeting

 * Feb 29 minutes

Progress reports

 * Moving the table to the counties: Liz completed ALL counties. Suggested more uniformity in little details.(Kudos, Liz!)
 * Project task written to update the charts and footnote Red Book.
 * FamilySearch Library Catalog links completed this week: Morgan through Summit plus Utah County (Kyle Law did a bunch)
 * Photo contest: What do you think? (ppt) and Photo info page
 * To DO: 1) fill in UGA prizes; 2) wordsmith; 3) will FS offer a prize? 4) Won't we also want people submitting pictures of Library, Courthouse, other? Prizes for them, too?
 * Tips icons: "Look and feel" Samples so far (word)

Tip Gathering

 * See Excel spreadsheet. Ideas for gathering:
 * On the tip bank page, have "to submit a tip for consideration, click here"
 * attribution for tips: source if available? user if not? (No attribution on the pages where the tips are displayed.
 * Process: from suggestion to template to posting on pages.
 * Who/how?
 * Just for Utah? See what community thinks? when?

Tasks to write this week

 * Newspapers: Only include Utah Digital Newspapers and LOC Chonicling America for each county?
 * Obituaries: how to handle with Newspapers? Do in one task

Libraries Discussion, con't

 * Where to start this week – Libraries in Utah and how much to link – or have a common page with all linking to the complete list of libraries and what one can find there

Discussion still in process


 * Wiki Editorial Comment Page: Comments as to what you found at a certain location, library, museum, etc…. that will assist other researchers…..may be the most visited page on the Wiki. Please clarify this area of minutes
 * List or not list small Local Libraries (collections or no collections) Decision: not list unless they did have something for history/family history. After meeting comment: Almost all little libraries will have something -- a history book, for example -- about the county. If we go deep into what each library has, the project will never get finished.
 * Format page for gathering information re: libraries. Where do we cut off the project? Where will people get this format page once the project is done?
 * Alternate Repositories talked about a little. Probably not needed for county libraries.
 * On the county level – do we want neighboring libraries linked?

Summary of decisions to this point in the conversation


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

To discuss soon:


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