FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 May 23

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Agenda
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Meeting Participants:

News and Events

 * 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.
 * June 21 To be announced presented by TBA. 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


 * 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, 16 May

Progress reports

 * Adjustments to newspaper task instruction: Changed the Alt+Tab instructions to allow more flexibility.
 * Tip icon template review: are we satisfied Steve's rendering of it?
 * Newspapers pages completed for __ counties.
 * Vital records chart ready for review again

Vital records (BMD, Div)
Vital Records discussion

Summary of minutes:

"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 Task ready for contributors.

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.