FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 Feb 15

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Agenda
Marilyn Markham, one of the project leaders, is still in rehab and improving quickly. She fell on that icy Sunday morning, 22 Jan.

Anyone new to this meeting?


 * James Tanner, Lee Drew and Liz Snow for volunteering.
 * All of you who are attending--both for the first time, and those who have been to other meetings

News and Events

 * UGA Virtual Chapter, every 3rd Thursday, 7:00 p.m. (Mountain) This week: The Tired, the Poor, the Huddled Masses, and the Wretched Refuse: U.S. Immigration from 1820 - 1954 with Beth Taylor
 * South Davis Family History Fair, March 2nd and 3rd. Scoll to bottom of the page to register.

Review of last meeting

 * Feb 8 minutes


 * Progress reports:
 * FamilySearch Library Catalog links completed through Grand County. (Thanks, Lois)
 * Task in prep for moving the table to the counties
 * Task in prep (on temporary hold) for linking to Allen County Public Library topics for each county
 * Have not yet worked with the "Provide Context" look and feel, as discussed 1 Feb.
 * Examples for tips developed so far:

Idea share

 * Provide context for Cemeteries area. "Context" means that we help a beginner understand why they were linked to this topic from another topic, such as birth, marriage, or death.
 * Brainstorm: What do we need to say in the Cemeteries area, to help that person?
 * Put a table or something visual
 * Can they be told more visually than in words?


 * Tip Bank discussion
 * Examples developed so far:
 * Brainstorm tips for Cemeteries topic


 * Where shall we keep the "Mine" for the tip bank? We need to "salt" it liberally, then have people wordsmith each tip.
 * After acceptance, each will be turned into a template. Each time a template is changed, it will automatically change everywhere it has been placed.
 * After templates are made, they need to also be placed in the Tip Bank that will be available to all to see

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

Next week:


 * Progress reports
 * Project to post FHL and ACPL catalog links to each appropriate topic in each county
 * Provide context continued
 * Tip Bank continued.

To discuss soon:


 * Vital records setup: making ready for items to be entered
 * Cemetery records
 * Church records