FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 Feb 29

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Agenda
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News and Events

 * UGA Virtual Chapter, every 3rd Thursday, 7:00 p.m. (Mountain)
 * South Davis Family History Fair, March 2nd and 3rd. Scoll to bottom of the page to register.

Review of last meeting

 * Feb 22 minutes


 * Progress reports:
 * Moving the table to the counties: Completed __ counties. Several completed by Liz Snow
 * FamilySearch Library Catalog links completed this week: ___Grand through Kane Counties. (Thanks, Lois)
 * Tips icons: Joy is playing with "look and feel" for the tips so they draw attention, but look very inviting and professional. The artist we have will be working on the icons.

Idea share

 * How shall we ask people for help in:
 * Providing landscapes (free of copyright) from the counties to be posted above the tables.
 * Correcting dates in the table for each county.


 * Main topic: Libraries and the information users need
 * What do we NEED in the Wiki for each of the Utah Libraries, Archives, Museums, Societies that have collections useful for family history and Utah history?
 * Do we need a format for gathering information about a library? (See ACPL, FHL, SLPublic)
 * How extensively can they describe their own collections in the Wiki?
 * Will users benefit if we link from topics in the county to catalogs, such as the FHL? Others?
 * If so, how many catalogs will help users. Or might they confuse instead?

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

Next week:
 * Progress reports
 * Focus to be decided by those at the meeting

To discuss soon:


 * Provide context continued
 * Tip Bank continued.
 * Vital records setup: making ready for items to be entered
 * Cemetery records
 * Church records