FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Project leaders

Liz and Jana volunteered to be assistants to help prepare each topic.

Meeting prep

 * 1) Create agenda
 * 2) Update Experimental County area from last and for next meeting
 * 3) Report progress
 * 4) Send email to potential attendees
 * 5) This has recently been only to those who come regularly
 * 6) Would be good to send a good update to the others (frequency?)

Pick a topic
Order for "quick" topics (usually needing feedback more than discussion)


 * Probate
 * Land and property
 * Cemetery
 * Court
 * Funeral home records: list and call to learn previous owners/name of establishment; how far back to they have records; do they know where earlier funeral home records for that area are located?
 * Suggested things others can do (non-project)
 * Newspapers: add to the list on the county newspapers page (what is in the county (library and/or newspaper office); Also copies at U of U and other state repositories. Make a more complete list.
 * Probate, Land, Court: Feet on the ground people: loose papers as well as dockets and other volumes
 * Search the internet for stuff to add, especially at county level


 * Tasks that require genealogical experience
 * Scour: libraries in their area; state archives; state hist soc; university libraries; BYU special collections; other
 * Adding content
 * Specialized tasks (needs specific training, but not requiring much genealogical experience)
 * Adding to historical timelines (Wikipedia for towns in the county)
 * Will add to migration area of counties as well
 * Locating digital county histories (the centennial publications should be listed under History for each county)
 * Maps of neighboring counties (COPYRIGHT!)
 * Linking to "link aggregator" sites (CyndisList, Linkpendium, etc.) -- to the area for a county, rather than every link added to the county. Help the people to fish these, rather than catch every fish for them.
 * Tasks that require deeper WikiMedia ability
 * Fixing the top tables (probably there will be other fixes)
 * The little fixes in Newspapers area
 * Fixing the FHLC links wording

Order for discussions that will likely take place over multiple weeks:


 * 1) Vital records, including divorce
 * 2) Church
 * 3) Libraries

Create a task

 * 1) Pick a topic
 * 2) Write something in the experimental county area for the group to respond to
 * 3) Capture ideas and responses (on the talk page) from the group in the meeting
 * 4) Implement the ideas and suggestions in the experimental county area and its talk page
 * 5) Bring it back to the group for discussion
 * 6) When finalized, write up the task
 * 7) Test it on a few counties for the purpose of refining the task
 * 8) Pick counties that may present challenges
 * 9) Recruit (new?) people to test the task, finish the project