FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 Aug 22

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Agenda
Meeting Participants:

News and Events

 * September Virtual presentation by Pat Jensen, Finding U.S. Naturalization Records. UGA Virtual Chapter meeting which occurs every 3rd Thursday, 7:00 p.m. (Mountain).
 * September 21 and 22 (Friday and Saturday) UGA Regional Conference Sandy
 * RootsTech
 * Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy

Review of last meeting

 * Wednesday, 15 Aug

Progress reports

 * Funeral home records - Lois Fowles is almost finished inputting funeral homes on the county pages.
 * Brainstorm: we need a questionnaire so people can review their websites and contact the mortuaries to learn:
 * years their records began
 * complete run since then?
 * records they create for each funeral
 * what do they keep?
 * what happens when a funeral home ceases business?
 * was this mortuary started from scratch, or acquired from (name of previous funeral home)
 * if acquired, years those records began
 * have any records been transferred to an archive or library?
 * microfilmed? transcribed?
 * specialties: religious (Catholic, LDS, Jewish, etc.), ethnic groups?
 * area they serve
 * do they participate in ObitsUtah.com?
 * what role does the Utah Funeral Directors Association play?
 * Neighboring counties - Joy Bogar is updating the images and centering the blurb to the right of them. Starting to look really good.
 * Make maps clickable: see Jason or Beth for how to do it. Jana wants to be part of the training. Joy will probably be happy to do this.
 * James did modifying of How to Find Birth Information in the United States, based on comments from our meeting.

From last week:


 * Get documentation of Delayed Birth Registration - dates started, etc. (Says 1941 on state page, but no citation.) - Pat


 * Church records -- often used to document for delayed birth (SS, citizinship, etc, Legal needs)
 * Church did not keep a copy of the record they gave to the individual. Use the membership records. Pat will double-check on that.


 * Get citation for statement in 1905 the state required copies to be sent to them. - Liz Done.
 * Documentation for 100 years - Wilma Done
 * Start templates and task page for Births - Wilma Started
 * Start on the State Archives project - Liz started adding info to Experimental County from the State Archives site to add pertinent links and info to each county.
 * Learn to make our own "badge" and other templates that allow adaptation - Wilma and Jana? Jana made significant progress. Asking Steve for help.

Vital records (BMD, Div)
Birth Review the "to do" area of births to implement or discard ideas

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