FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 Aug 1

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Agenda
Meeting Participants: Liz cannot be here today -- teaching 4 classes at BYU this week.

News and Events
Next week's meeting (aug 8) cancelled


 * July 31-Aug 3 BYU Conference on Family History &amp; Genealogy
 * August 16 Virtual presentation by Pat Jensen, Finding U.S. Naturalization Records. UGA Virtual Chapter meeting which occurs every 3rd Thursday, 7:00 p.m. (Mountain).
 * August 18 (Saturday) UGA Regional Conference Cedar City
 * September 21 and 22 (Friday and Saturday) UGA Regional Conference Sandy

Review of last meeting

 * Wednesday, 25 July

Progress reports

 * Funeral home records - Lois Fowles is starting to input funeral homes on the county pages from one of the directories. (She was looking for work, so I gave her a big task that did not need a lot of explaining.) She will link to their web site and cite the reference to the directory.
 * Future task: contacting the mortuaries to learn: years they have, communities they serve, filmed?, (check with archives, etc.), specialties (Catholic, LDS, Jewish, etc.), records they keep for each person.
 * Obituaries online needs to be in ours. Patsy will look it up so we get it in. ObitsUtah.com courtesy of Utah funeral directors assn.
 * 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