FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 Mar 7

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Agenda
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News and Events

 * UGA Virtual Chapter, every 3rd Thursday, 7:00 p.m. (Mountain)
 * Saturday, June 9th, a Family History Fair will be held in Murray. Sponsored by FamilySearch? Details will follow.
 * July? Aug? 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

 * Feb 29 minutes


 * Progress reports:
 * Moving the table to the counties: Liz completed ALL counties. Suggested more uniformity in little details.(Kudos, Liz!)
 * Project task written to update the charts and footnote Red Book.
 * FamilySearch Library Catalog links completed this week: Morgan through Summit plus Utah County (Kyle Law did a bunch)
 * Photo contest: What do you think? (ppt) and Photo info page
 * To DO: 1) fill in UGA prizes; 2) wordsmith; 3) will FS offer a prize? 4) Won't we also want people submitting pictures of Library, Courthouse, other? Prizes for them, too?
 * Tips icons: "Look and feel" Samples so far (word)

Correcting Table Dates

 * 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
 * To Do summary for this topic:


 * Wilma will create a task for going through RedBook for the dates in the chart, referencing it as the source.
 * Wilma will update links to Green River County, Utah page. Done AdkinsWH 21:07, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Libraries Discussion

 * 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?

Minutes from meeting


 * Wiki Editorial Comment Page: Comments as to what you found at a certain location, library, museum, etc…. that will assist other researchers…..may be the most visited page on the Wiki. Please clarify this area of minutes
 * Don’t want long lists of anything, including libraries, unless it’s a complied list on another page
 * Looked at Albany, New York as an example
 * List or not list small Local Libraries (collections or no collections) Decision: not list unless they did have something for history/family history. After meeting comment: Almost all little libraries will have something -- a history book, for example -- about the county. If we go deep into what each library has, the project will never get finished.
 * Mention “special collections” found in libraries and museums -- in many local areas
 * Link to Utah Archives and Libraries page
 * Collection of County and Local Histories and museums of 500 people or more can be found in that particular county
 * Wilma’s format of “gathering information” was looked at and found much interest
 * Pages created to link to Libraries and museums – so they can be used over and over
 * Pictures of Libraries would be helpful
 * Alternate Repositories talked about a little. Probably not needed for county libraries.
 * On the county level – do we want neighboring libraries linked?
 * Where to start next week – Libraries in Utah and how much to link – or have a common page with all linking to the complete list of libraries and what one can find there

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

Discussion still in process


 * Wiki Editorial Comment Page: Comments as to what you found at a certain location, library, museum, etc…. that will assist other researchers…..may be the most visited page on the Wiki. Please clarify this area of minutes
 * List or not list small Local Libraries (collections or no collections) Decision: not list unless they did have something for history/family history. After meeting comment: Almost all little libraries will have something -- a history book, for example -- about the county. If we go deep into what each library has, the project will never get finished.
 * Format page for gathering information re: libraries. Where do we cut off the project? Where will people get this format page once the project is done?
 * Alternate Repositories talked about a little. Probably not needed for county libraries.
 * On the county level – do we want neighboring libraries linked?
 * Where to start next week – Libraries in Utah and how much to link – or have a common page with all linking to the complete list of libraries and what one can find there

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

Next week:


 * Progress reports
 * Continue the Libraries discussion

To discuss soon:


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