FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 June 27

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Agenda
Anyone new to this meeting?

Meeting Participants: Marilyn and Patsy attending meeting for work

(Gene Sabin -- Pat will invite him to our meeting. Sabwoo)

News and Events

 * July 19 Virtual presentation presented by Sue Maxwell, Strategies for Searching Using Ancestry. 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

Review of last meeting

 * Wednesday, 20 June

Progress reports

 * Tip icon now has green bar, has been placed in "Parent Counties" area.
 * The revised Table at top is now on every county.
 * Work was done on the Probate and Land records topics. Will review in a few moments. Thanks Jana.
 * A missionary is working on the History Timeline of each county for events that affected records, record-keeping, and migration.
 * She is searching the county and towns using Wikipedia and Utah History Encyclopedia.
 * Will cite sources.
 * Will then copy info to other areas, as appropriate. Example: "1856. Settlers came from Cedar City, Utah to [town in this county]" should also be placed under migration.
 * Another missionary is being trained to copy the map on the Utah page to make "surrounding counties" maps (color!) for the county pages.
 * Which is most useful, historical county borders or current? Send them to animap or an online book of maps.

"Quick" Tasks
Topics that may need less discussion: Leader/assistants do examples, get suggestions and approval:


 * Review Probate
 * Review Land and property
 * Be sure to refer to the state pages as well
 * Cemeteries: do we want bullets or tables? table Consensus after discussion: headings with bullets and links to the specific county, can have explanation for limitations and other things they can do.
 * Court
 * Funeral home records

Vital records (BMD, Div)
Birth in bulleted style Suggest resources, review for dates and content.

How ready are we to create a task description for birth?

Discussion minutes:


 * Pre-1856 is OK
 * Discussed dates counties have records (to present)?
 * Suggestion: years when births are restricted is another break (1911 is at state archives, indexes online for some counties
 * Variations can be put on the county's talk page if all details are not known and no time to research it now. allows it to be revisited in future
 * Each county is different
 * archives.utah.gov/research/guides/birth

Summary of minutes:

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

Next week:


 * Progress reports
 * Future focus for discussions:


 * Church records
 * Cemetery records
 * Library area of each county


 * Tip Bank