FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 Mar 21

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Agenda
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News and Events

 * 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 FamilySearch? Details will follow.
 * July 31- Aug 3 BYU Family History
 * Saturday, August 18th UGA Regional Conference in Cedar City. Sponsored by Cedar City Chapter, UGA
 * Friday and Saturday, September 21 and 22, UGA Regional Conference, Larry H. Miller Campus of Salt Lake Community College

Review of last meeting

 * 14 Mar

Progress reports

 * FamilySearch Library Catalog links completed this week: Lois completed the task. Kudos, Lois! This was a long, tedious task.
 * Task for updating dates in the top chart: Thanks also to Liz Snow, who completed documenting the dates. Some questions were raised, which will be discussed as first topic today.
 * Photo info page UGA is willing to give even one UGA membership PER COUNTY! Do we need that many prizes, with attribution?
 * Joy made great progress on the "specs" and requirements for the photos.
 * To DO: 1) fill in UGA prizes; 2) wordsmith: Review, get ready to post.
 * Newspapers section updated from Mar 14, ready for more of your ideas
 * Libraries: Made minimal progress on it this week
 * Tips look and feel. Joy put together a few so we could see what they might look like in an actual county.

Starting/Ending Dates in top table

 * Red Book shows county records only, with ending dates when state records began. What should our top table show?
 * Would users be helped more by including both state and county level in the top chart, or only including county level?
 * Or should that be explained under the topic, leaving the top table more simple?

Tasks to write this week

 * Newspapers: Specific counties need to be mentioned in the task.
 * Obituaries

Libraries Discussion, con't

 * Create a format page for gathering information about Utah libraries and their colletions: first focus - local (rural areas) libraries?
 * What do we put in the "Libraries" area of each county: View Albany County, NY example
 * List every possible library?
 * List only those which may have a dedicated room or collection? (And let people work with them to fill in the form as they wish?)
 * Other:

Summary of decisions to this point in the conversation


 * Don’t want long lists of anything, including libraries, unless it’s a complied list on another page
 * Link to Utah Archives and Libraries page from each county
 * We will use a format for gathering information. Format not yet decided.
 * Pages created to link to Libraries and museums – so they can be used over and over
 * Pictures of Libraries would be helpful

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:


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