FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 May 8

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Agenda
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Meeting Participants:

Jana, Marilyn, Liz, Wilma Excused: Maren Jeppson, Lois Fowles, Patsy Hendrickson

News and Events

 * May 17 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, 18 Apr

Progress reports

 * See current "Tip" icon: Utah Newspapers What do you think?
 * Newspapers task: Several counties done, soon will be testing the instructions on new people (who could turn out to be contributors. A bigger purpose is to make the task instructions "doable," in case others want to do the same for their states or counties.
 * Three meetings with Jana, Liz, and Wilma. Our objective is to get something started on a topic, so people in the regular meeting can respond, give feedback, add ideas, suggest resources. We also organize notes from previous discussions so we can move forward steadily.
 * Ideas for formatting Vital Records have been set forth. More in the discussion area.

Idea share
Review wording, etc. for the county newspaper page.

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

Nothing further has been done on "Quick" tasks this past 3 weeks.

Future "quick" tasks:


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

Vital records (BMD, Div)
Vital Records discussion led by Jana. Your responses to:


 * Date or timeline concept giving suggestions based on birth years
 * Suggestions for before county formed? Before Territory?
 * Table concept
 * "Suggestions" Alternate/Substitute
 * How deep to go with suggestions
 * Specific sources

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.