FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2013 January 9

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Agenda
Meeting Participants: After asking James, he replied, "I am still very much in pain and unable to do much at all." I'll put his name on the prayer roll today.

Wiki News
 * Problem with the CSS - grid lines in tables still don't show. Are we giving up hope?

News and Events

 * Jan 17: What's New in FamilySearch Family Tree Don R Anderson. UGA Virtual Chapter.
 * January 14-18, 2013 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG).
 * March 21-23, 2013 RootsTech

Progress reports

 * Jana has suggested putting COUNTY online badges on the county page in place of the state Online collections badge.
 * Steps: Jana will prepare so others (Liz and I at least) can do it.
 * Beginner's corner? Probably nothing until early next year that the "state pages" team meets.
 * Cemetery Records progress:
 * Thanks, Liz, for your ideas and hard work.
 * Color, since we don't have table borders?
 * Salt Lake County LDS Church records
 * Exciting breakthrough! Link to FHLC for stakes
 * Want an uncopyrighted map of SLC (1923 or before). Purpose--to make a clickable map of stakes per Jenson's (about 1930)
 * Pat suggested the ward maps; James said Sanborn maps back in 1800's -- Historic Map Works.com; Pat will look on Church History and BYU. OldMapsOnline.org - a portal to about 35,000 maps; David Dilts has done a lot with maps - he might know of some. City directories? 1888 SLC and vicinit with wards; 1920 also that is divided -- See Pat.
 * Stake won't work for unit stopped before 1908, or oganized after 1917. Pat.
 * Comparisons: Cache County; Box Elder County
 * Report to UGA re:Utah Wiki Project done by Patsy. Summary of accomplishments mentioned:
 * FS Historical Collections and Ancestry.com updated on counties
 * How to Find Birth Information in Utah
 * SEO paragraphs
 * Experimental County page
 * Project end: If we get volunteers, hoping they have something others can add before we quit.
 * UGA members invited to help
 * Proposal: meet monthly if needed. Wilma can't on Jan 2, so meet Jan 9. Decide then when/if next meeting.
 * Strategies How to Find Birth Information in the United States; United States, How to Find Genealogy Records (If James is back)

Still needed:
 * Record selection table
 * Wilma will focus soon on Library section, then Deaths, then Marriages.

From previous meetings:
 * Gallery of images: Joy and I talked about this. Need a process, so others can submit images of the various counties and we won't have to maintain it. (More discussion in Nov 21 meeting. Get with Joy about those suggestions.)
 * Do the county newspaper pages: Wilma is learning how to extract the URL so we can make it go right to the correct area of Chronicling America - Wilma
 * Genealogical Surveys also mentioned in last meeting: Do only for Ogden, Davis, and others with large compilations..
 * Maps follow-up: Marilyn will check with Jason Harrison and David Dilts for what they are doing. Results:
 * Suggestion from last meeting not yet implemented: Newberry atlas of historical county boundaries.
 * Oldmapsonline.org draw a square around the area; USGS.gov maps digitizing them
 * FHLC links. To do: once Libraries section is ready, show the FHLC links to the person who has not liked them. Wilma:
 * Value and frequency of FHLC links - topic of a near future meeting.
 * Utah Record Selection Table needs updating. (Just keeping on the list until done)

Idea share
Most important (county) discussions remaining: (prioritized in last week's meeting)
 * 1 Death, Marriage
 * 1 Census
 * 1 Cemeteries
 * 1 Land
 * 1 Probate
 * Utah Record Selection Table

Minimum information for each topic:
 * Per project leaders meeting (Oct 23) and group meeting (Oct 31)


 * Blurb giving value and scope of the records
 * FHLC link
 * Link to the Utah page for that topic
 * Links to Ancestry.com and FS Historical Records collections Done by Jana early Nov.

"Boots on the ground" person or group to maintain, update, add to each county.
 * Ideas per group meeting Oct 31


 * UGA Patsy can get zips of UGA members and contact for their interest
 * FHCs in area - do they know someone they can suggest?
 * Libraries in area
 * ULA - Pat can email everyone asking for help

We are aiming at 31 March 2013 as completing what will be done as a project.