FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 Aug 22

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Agenda
Meeting Participants:

News and Events

 * September 20 Virtual presentation by Jason Harrison, City Directories: More than Names and Addresses. 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
 * January 14-18, 2013 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG).
 * March 21-23, 2013 RootsTech

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?


 * Neighboring counties
 * Beth Taylor sent written instructions to make the maps clickable. Joy Bogar is going to work on these.
 * Joy's husband, Bo, is proof reading that all the neighboring counties are on the list. (He found a few that were not complete)
 * Results of poll re: order of records to suggest for finding birth information. (Based on How to Find Birth Information in the United States, by James Tanner.
 * Start templates and task page for Births - Wilma Started
 * Start on the State Archives project - Liz started adding info to experimental county
 * Utah Search Strategies page - added links to How to Find... and Utah Record Selection Table, which needs updating.

From before:


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

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