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 15 to 20 counties, depending upon how much later she worked last night. (Kudos, Liz!)
 * FamilySearch Library Catalog links completed this week: Kane through Morgan Counties. (Thanks, Lois and Kyle)
 * 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.
 * Need community to provide panoramic landscape photos for each of Utah’s 29 counties
 * Deadline March 31, 2012 for photos submitted to enter contest for “best photo”
 * Photos that are chosen for each county will eligible to enter contest
 * Photos may be submitted at any time after March to be placed in the “photo bank”
 * After March 31, 2012 no mention of a contest will appear on any county page
 * Photos may be uploaded from a memory card or flash drive. (But we will ask people to submit them, so we can choose the "winner" for each county.)
 * Attribution will be give to the photographer in the copyright section of the image: People will click on the image to see the attribution.
 * A graphic will advertise on the main page (where the panoramic photo would go) for photo help with a link to all information they need to know including right of copyrights….


 * Getting people involved in Correcting dates in the table for each county.
 * Tasks to be created by Wilma for dates in the tables: Births  Marriages   Deaths   Census  Land  Probate  Church  Obituaries  - Cemeteries
 * Dates will be obtained from the “RedBook” for this project. If someone uses another source, such as personally check collections in the county official's website or office, always add references.
 * References / footnotes (task will teach volunteers how to)
 * In another set of tasks, more detailed information (with footnotes) will be added under the “Land and Property,” "probate," and other headings for each county
 * Cemeteries area needs to include the statewide burial database.
 * Wilma will email “tasks” for volunteers in the weekly meeting reminder.
 * James Tanner will put emails on his blog asking for volunteers:  Blog @ genealogyvarizona@gmail.com   James’ blog has over 40,000 followers
 * Utah Archives
 * 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, SLC Public)
 * How extensively can they describe their own collections in the Wiki?
 * Will users benefit if we link from topics in the county to catalogs other than the FHL?
 * If so, how many catalogs will help users. Or might more confuse rather than help?
 * What about libraries in that county? How specific, in-depth with their collections?

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