FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 Apr 18

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Agenda
Please excuse Wilma. She is on a research trip until the end of April.

Anyone new to this meeting?

Meeting Participants:

News and Events

 * Jane Colmenares can give great training. Contact Wilma (whadkins@burgoyne.com) if interested.


 * 1940 Census Help UGA's project with FamilySearch Indexing.
 * UGA Virtual Chapter, every 3rd Thursday, 7:00 p.m. (Mountain). 19 April topic: 1940 census with Tom McGill, FamilySearch
 * Saturday, June 9th, a Family History Fair will be held in Murray. Sponsored by Regional stakes. Details will follow.
 * BYU July31- Aug 3, BYU Conference on Family History &amp; Genealogy
 * Cedar City (August 18th) and Sandy (September 21 and 22) UGA Regional Conferences

Review of last meeting

 * Wednesday, 11 Apr

Progress reports

 * Newspapers task. Liz and Jana have been doing this task and have encountered some blips they will explain. See remarks
 * Some training was done with Jana and Liz as assistants to Wilma.
 * Obituaries task:
 * Icons for tips: Joy did a few more experiments

Task for brief discussion
Topics that may need less discussion: Leader/assistants do examples, get suggestions and approval: Liz and Jana have volunteered to be assistants.


 * Obituaries


 * Do what on state level?

Future "quick" tasks:


 * Probate
 * Land and property
 * Court
 * Funeral home records

Vital records (BMD, Div)

 * County level


 * State level

Future:
 * 1) Cemeteries
 * 2) Church
 * 3) Libraries

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.