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== Agenda  ==
== Agenda  ==


'''Meeting Participants:'''
'''Meeting Participants:'''<br>  
We welcome Marty Simon! She is currently a missionary, and very interested in genealogy and making contributions. For the Utah wiki, she is (at the moment) enhancing the [[Cache County, Utah#History Timeline|History Timeline]] of each county.<br>


== News and Events  ==
== News and Events  ==
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== Progress reports 10 minutes ==
== Progress reports  ==


*Funeral home records questionnaire  
*Funeral home records questionnaire  
**Lois asked Larkin funeral home about records and it sounded like they only have about what would be on a death certificate. (I think James told us that in one of the meetings)  
**Lois asked Larkin funeral home about records and it sounded like they only have about what would be on a death certificate. (I think James told us that in one of the meetings)
**We have decided to check with a few more, but use the following strategy:  
**We have decided to check with a few more, but use the following strategy: 1) check the online death certificates  
***learn the names of early funeral homes/directors from the online death certificates for a county;
*[[Beaver County, Utah#Neighboring_counties|Neighboring counties]]
***contact funeral homes of that area to see if they know where those records are AND how early the records exist for the funeral home contacted. In the process, what do they have for early records, such as programs, obituaries, names of participants, pall bearers, etc.  
**Joy has started experimenting with the clickable maps. Her husband, Bo, has finished proofreading and updated links to be sure every neighboring county is listed.  
***Volunteer signup - letting them choose -- church records?, libraries, funeral homes, and when training will be and who to contact. Distinguish between those who wanted to gather, and those who want to contribute. Will they give it back to us and/or have them make contact?
*Results of poll re: order of records to suggest for finding birth information. James started the update to [[How to Find Birth Information in Utah]].
*Birth Task Description: Doing in two segments:
*Start templates and task page for Births - Wilma made great progress
**Lois has agreed to do the birth sections before civil birth records were created. That task description is 99% complete.
*Start on the State Archives project - Liz reworded info to experimental county, will do this for all counties.  
**Liz will do the 1898-present segment. She has already checked all the microfilms (except Washington County) and has gathered all the info from the State Archives. As soon as Wilma finishes the templates (today we hope), Liz will have this done quickly. (She isn't called "Liz the whiz" for nothing.)
 
From previous meetings:
 
*Neighboring counties clickable maps: ongoing
*[[How to Find Birth Information in Utah]]: to discuss next week (really full agenda today)
*[[Utah Record Selection Table]] needs updating. (Just keeping on the list until done)  
*[[Utah Record Selection Table]] needs updating. (Just keeping on the list until done)  
*Get documentation of [[Utah Vital Records#Birth_Records|Delayed Birth Registration]] - dates started, etc. (Says 1941 on state page, but no citation.) - Pat  
*Get documentation of [[Utah Vital Records#Birth_Records|Delayed Birth Registration]] - dates started, etc. (Says 1941 on state page, but no citation.) - Pat  
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== Idea share  ==
== Idea share  ==


=== Utah Page 20 minutes ===
=== Vital records (BMD, Div) ===


In the Thursday [[FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting 30 August 2012#Updates_and_follow_up|Wiki Contributors]] meeting, I volunteered us to experiment with making the [[Utah]] page more inviting, helpful to beginners. Nathan suggested we look at the [[England]] page for some ideas. Jana has agreed to:
[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Experimental County#Birth|Birth]] Review the "to do" area of births to implement or discard ideas  


*Lead our brainstorming discussions on this.
Discussion minutes:  
*Scour the wiki and other sites for more ideas
*Create a page for us to review/improve. [[User:JanaStokes/Sandbox Utah]]


This is really something that CAN make a big difference to the Wiki overall. The Thursday group will want to be part of the discussion and brainstorming. They do not expect anything this Thursday, but we will want to keep them involved in the conversation.
Summary of minutes:


=== Church Records 15 minutes  ===
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[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Experimental County#Church_Records|Church Records]] Brainstorm what should be on the "pattern" for each congregation (for any religion, but based on LDS)
== Future meetings  ==


Discussion minutes:  
Meetings will be held on Wednesdays at 9:00 a.m.


Summary of minutes:  
Next week:  


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*Progress reports
*Future focus for discussions:


=== Ideas we won't forget  ===
*Church records
*Cemetery records
*Library area of each county


*Tip Bank
*Tip Bank

Revision as of 20:38, 4 September 2012

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Welcome! Make a difference! Add your voice to the Utah Wiki Project.

Join with other Utah project participants to see progress, to share ideas, and to get news and training. Please add items to the agenda before or bring them up during the conversation.
The Wiki currently has 150,329 articles in English

Agenda[edit | edit source]

Meeting Participants:

News and Events[edit | edit source]

Review of last meeting[edit | edit source]


Progress reports[edit | edit source]

  • Funeral home records questionnaire
    • Lois asked Larkin funeral home about records and it sounded like they only have about what would be on a death certificate. (I think James told us that in one of the meetings)
    • We have decided to check with a few more, but use the following strategy: 1) check the online death certificates
  • Neighboring counties
    • Joy has started experimenting with the clickable maps. Her husband, Bo, has finished proofreading and updated links to be sure every neighboring county is listed.
  • Results of poll re: order of records to suggest for finding birth information. James started the update to How to Find Birth Information in Utah.
  • Start templates and task page for Births - Wilma made great progress
  • Start on the State Archives project - Liz reworded info to experimental county, will do this for all counties.
  • Utah Record Selection Table needs updating. (Just keeping on the list until done)
  • Get documentation of Delayed Birth Registration - dates started, etc. (Says 1941 on state page, but no citation.) - Pat
  • Do the county newspaper pages - wilma

Idea share[edit | edit source]

Vital records (BMD, Div)[edit | edit source]

Birth Review the "to do" area of births to implement or discard ideas

Discussion minutes:

Summary of minutes:


Future meetings[edit | edit source]

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
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