FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 June 20

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Agenda
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Meeting Participants:

News and Events

 * June 16 (Saturday) How was the trip?
 * Very interesting for Utah history.
 * June 21 (Tomorrow!) Supercharge Your Research: Cut Ten Years off Your Learning Curve presented by Barry Ewell. This is the UGA Virtual Chapter meeting which occurs every 3rd Thursday, 7:00 p.m. (Mountain).
 * 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

Review of last meeting

 * Wednesday, 6 June

Progress reports

 * Review the revised Table at top by Jana, Liz, Wilma
 * Tip icon What do you think? Tip icon also used in neighboring counties - always, or for every 4th or so county?
 * Decision: none in neighboring counties because several topics link to neighboring counties anyway.
 * DO put the parent counties tip in every county
 * Decided to change color of bar to green
 * Obituaries task description written and the task accomplished already by Liz, Jana, Lois, and Elizabeth Kesler (who is new to the project).
 * Karen Coombs has expressed interest in helping. She has been on vacation, so we will be in contact again soon.
 * Liz reviewed the table with 20-25 people at her FamilySearch Center: OVERWHELMINGLY in favor of the table and having it and the picture at the top.
 * Some fckeditor problems were encountered, which especially affected the entire Carbon County page. May have something to do with editing tables.
 * The fckeditor also is putting in headings when we "show preview". It makes it so the heading is not searchable.

"Quick" Tasks
Topics that may need less discussion: Leader/assistants do examples, get suggestions and approval.

Future "quick" tasks to write:


 * Cemetery records : Next week, we'll have samples for decision in meeting
 * Probate
 * (Jana volunteered to start Probate and Land)
 * Land and property
 * Court
 * Funeral home records

Vital records (BMD, Div)
Birth in bulleted style Suggest resources, review for dates and content. Dates used:
 * Before 1847 (year white settlers came to are that became Utah Territory)
 * 1847-1856 (year of county formation)
 * 1856-1897 (County existed, not civil vital records)
 * 1897-present (civil then state vital records)

Discussion summary: (remembered 1 week later) Meeting adjourned early. Discussion to be continued.
 * before 1847 dates:unnecessary.
 * Before 1897: mixed opinions
 * 1897-present: not discussed

Future meetings
Meetings will be held on Wednesdays at 9:00 a.m.

Next week:


 * Progress reports
 * Future focus for discussions:


 * Church records
 * Library area of each county


 * Tip Bank