FamilySearch Wiki talk:WikiProject Utah Experimental County: Difference between revisions

*Color, content, ideas, suggestions.  

Wilma, the construction in the Sandbox is WONDERFUL,  so colorful, and such immediate feed back. I would stay on the Utah Project just because it is immediate success.  Fabulious construction.  Thank you for all of your hard work!!! [[User:Wyzer17|Wyzer17]] 15:34, 28 December 2011 (UTC)  

Way to experiment! I love looking at new ways to do things. Two comments: 1)I think the page is really long and when it has more data in it it will get even longer. Is there a way to break it up into a series of pages rather than one really long page? Just a thought. 2) I would love to see some step-by-step guidance for finding births, marriage, death, etc.[[User:LoosleDC|loosledc]] 19:29, 18 January 2012 (UTC)  

**You may want to share the idea of the table with an instructional designer and see what they might add.  

**Not sure what the colors mean.  

*I love that you have directed them to other counties what Beaver residents may be from. [[User:LoosleDC|loosledc]] 19:31, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Implemented Suggestions:  

*Wilma and others who visit this page.  I have changed the colord on the first table, but feel they are not as inviting as more vibrant colors.  Would love you input.  Thank you! [[User:Wyzer17|joy]] 20:51, 17 January 2012 (UTC)  

*Wilma ...  I fixed your spacing at the top of the TOC box where it is level with your Infobox  Jane [[User:Evancol|evancol]] 21:19, 17 January 2012 (UTC)  

*Add a panoramic picture at the top, not just a stark table. [[FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting 17 Jan 2012|Contributor's meeting 17 Jan]] and [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Meeting Notes#Wednesday.2C_18_January.2C_2012|admin meeting 18 Jan]]

**columns  

**link to a separate page  

*Color, icons  

**What about using a light bulb and the color yellow on the pages for suggestions, not just words.[[User:AdkinsWH|AdkinsWH]] 18:53, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

*Use '''Bullets''' for each item listed under a topic or heading.  

*Use SHORT paragraphs. Computer screen space is limited, people bypass paragraphs longer than 1 or 2 lines  

*Using "templates" for repeated content in counties.  

*Move this below resources. The term "Find records" should work for beginners and not interfere with experts. (Comments from [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 Jan 17|meeting17 Jan, 2012]])

'''Implemented on the Experimental page:'''  

== Genealogical topics  ==

=== Cemeteries  ===

=== Church Records  ===

*See the Forum thread [https://www.familysearch.org/learn/forums/en/showthread.php?t=13269 Lists of LDS Wards on Utah Pages]

=== Obituaries  ===

Back to [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Experimental County#Obituaries|obits area]] of experimental page.  

*Must treat with Newspapers as well. Done adequately?

*How shall we word this? Use several, or a few and link to a US page?<br>

*Interlibrary loan

=== Vital Records  ===

*Western States mg index

*I would love to see some step-by-step guidance for finding births, marriage, death, etc.loosledc 19:29, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Restate when birth records start, and where originals are housed  

When state starts and how to get those  

Rather than a long list of all these, use a More link  

== Icons ready to review.  ==

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For digital newspapers, the quality of the image affects the accuracy of your searches. Early issues may be low quality. Suggestion: look at a microfilmed copy of the newspaper. Better yet, find an &nbsp; &nbsp; original if at all possible.  

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Clouds - possible icon for online resources  

== Comment on Newspapers  ==

So this conceptual way of organizing/heading-things could be applied to probate records, newspapers, vital records, etc. The goal is to make headings that are "problem solvers" for people with heading one being the first choice of solving the majority of patrons needs.  

These will almost always be online. In fact the only exception I can think of would be OCR searchable PDF file within library or society that while on a CD or the libraries "intranet" is NOT made available to the public on the cloud. Fully searchable are powerful (usually online, yippie!) problem solvers, often they are the larger collections thereby a patron would stand a higher probability of finding what they need right from the get go since more records will be searched with a single click. Would include things like a google book (if the book was OCR searchable) of Beaver county newspaper abstracts.  

These may or may not be on-line. USGenWeb might have an on-line index. (clearly not as potentially problem solving as fully searchable which would pick a name in an obit even if it was listed as parent or child whereas the on-line index would only pick up the dead person). But this heading would pick up more traditional books (including google non-OCR books) or catalogs (Early Church Info File?) --again these may or may not be on-line; but the key is that they are secondary problem solvers.  

These stand the least probability of being on line (ie: microfilms) but if they are digitalized but not indexed they should be listed as resources. And this heading is needed because even if a record is identified in a Heading One source or Heading Two Source the researcher may need to know more about how to tract down an image. (Esp significant for just a name index.)  

A while back you made a comment along the lines of "prime real estate". Heading one is prime real-estate - this category should solve as many problems as possible and quickly before we loose the readers attention and before we ask the reader to enter the beginning world of research in heading two.