FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 May 16

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Agenda
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Meeting Participants: James, Jana, Lois, Marilyn, Pat, Patsy, Wilma Excused: Liz Snow

News and Events

 * May 17 (tomorrow night) Your Head in the Cloud and Your Feet on the Ground presented by Bret Petersen, UGA Board Member. This is the UGA Virtual Chapter meeting which occurs every 3rd Thursday, 7:00 p.m. (Mountain).
 * June 9 (Saturday) Murray Family History Fair Saturday, June 9th. Click on Classes.
 * June 16 (Saturday) Mormon History Bus Tours of Echo Canyon and of East Canyon.
 * 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


 * 1940 Census Help UGA's project with FamilySearch Indexing.
 * Creation of Utah Wiki Project Forum (date to be announced- but soon Forums were changed yesterday -- there is a thread for Wiki Projects. There is a new subforum. Put up a page in the wiki and thread in forums.

Review of last meeting

 * Wednesday, 9 May

Progress reports

 * Tip icon template : Asked Steve about this yesterday (Tuesday)
 * Newspapers task: Lois did the task on Duchesne County. Adjustments suggested to the instruction: The Alt+Tab is only one way to do the task, yet is treated like the only way. Allow more flexibility, as this way may actually be confusing to some.
 * Final review of wording for the county newspaper page
 * One change suggested and implemented same day
 * Vital Records progress review today.

Vital records (BMD, Div)
Birth section, Experimental County page.

Talk page of Pulaski County, Kentucky.

Dutchess County, New York example

Summary of minutes:

Discussion:

"Short Tasks"
Topics that may need less discussion: Leader/assistants do examples, get suggestions and approval: Liz and Jana have volunteered to be assistants.

Obituaries Some progress. Not ready for review. Much needs done on the Utah Obituaries page.

Future "quick" tasks:


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

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.