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Agenda[edit | edit source]

Meeting Participants: James is doing a little better. May join us. Patsy's father is not doing well. She is in Oregon with family.

Wiki News

Problem with the CSS - grid lines in tables: see what they are probably going to look like

News and Events[edit | edit source]

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

Review of last meeting[edit | edit source]

Progress reports[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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.

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 == Agenda  ==
-'''Meeting Participants:''' James is doing a little better. May join us. Patsy's father is not doing well. She is in Oregon with family. I did not send out a reminder about today's meeting, so others may have forgotten as well.
+'''Meeting Participants:''' James is doing a little better. May join us. Patsy's father is not doing well. She is in Oregon with family.
 '''Wiki News'''
-*Problem with the CSS - grid lines in tables: see what they are probably going to [https://stage.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Beaver_County,_Utah look like]
+*Problem with the CSS - grid lines in tables: see what they are probably going to [https://stage.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Beaver_County,_Utah look like]
 == News and Events  ==
-*Jan 17. 7 p.m. ''[http://ugagenealogy.org/cpage.php?pt=11 What's New in FamilySearch Family Tree]'' Don R Anderson. UGA Virtual Chapter.
+*Jan 17: ''[http://ugagenealogy.org/cpage.php?pt=11 What's New in FamilySearch Family Tree]'' Don R Anderson. UGA Virtual Chapter.
 *January 14-18, 2013 [http://www.slig.ugagenealogy.org Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy] (SLIG).
 *March 21-23, 2013 [http://rootstech.org/ RootsTech]
 == Review of last meeting  ==
-[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 December 19|December 19]]
 == Progress reports ==
-*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Experimental County#Cemeteries|Cemetery Records]] progress:
+*Jana has suggested putting COUNTY online badges on the county page in place of the state Online collections badge.
-**Templates for the tables were causing problems. Changed to putting the full table on each county. If problems do arise, they will now be easier to fix.
+*Steps: Jana will prepare so others (Liz and I at least) can do it.
-**Liz was delayed seriously until this was done, yet has still finished through ___
+*Beginner's corner? Probably nothing until early next year that the "state pages" team meets.
-**Notice the colors
+*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Experimental County#Cemeteries|Cemetery Records]] progress:
-*[[Cache County, Utah#Churches and Religious Groups|Cache County]] LDS Church records
+**Thanks, Liz, for your ideas and hard work.
-**Check out Benson Stake!
+**Color, since we don't have table borders?
-**Last time Pat pointed out that the stake won't work for any wards or branches stopped before 1908, or organized after 1917.
+*[[Salt Lake County, Utah#Churches and Religious Groups|Salt Lake County]] LDS Church records
-***Soooo, an ''Excel'' file was created to compare all Utah church units in the Catalog with those included in our Wiki files.
+**Exciting breakthrough! Link to FHLC for stakes
-***With the Catalog including up to 1948, there will be several that are added to our pages.
+**Want an uncopyrighted map of SLC (1923 or before). Purpose--to make a clickable map of stakes per Jenson's (about 1930)
-***It seems to happen every time a problem is brought up with LDS Church records, a new and better way of doing it emerges.
+**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.
-**[[Salt Lake County, Utah#Churches and Religious Groups|Salt Lake City stakes]] This area is very unorganized right now. Pat talked with David Dilts, who has agreed to create clickable maps so people can click an area where their people lived and it will take them to the stake! Thanks Pat and David!
+**Stake won't work for unit stopped before 1908, or oganized after 1917. Pat.
-*Maps: Added OldMapsOnline.org link to Utah on the online collections page and [[Utah Maps]].
+**Comparisons: [[Cache County, Utah#Churches and Religious Groups|Cache County]];  [[Box Elder County, Utah#Churches and Religious Groups|Box Elder County]]
-**To do: county blurb with links to Utah Maps page.
+*Report to UGA re:Utah Wiki Project done by Patsy. Summary of accomplishments mentioned:
-**USGS.gov maps- keep or take off the page?
+**FS Historical Collections and Ancestry.com updated on counties
-**[http://historical-county./website/Utah/documents/UT_County_Index.htm Utah index of counties] (from Newberry): put each county's link under History Timeline? or Maps?
+**[[How to Find Birth Information in Utah]]
-*Extinct counties need to be added
+**SEO paragraphs
-*County online collections badges:
+**Experimental County page
-**Steps: Jana will prepare so others (Liz and I at least) can do it.
+*Project end: If we get volunteers, hoping they have something others can add before we quit.
-**Maintenance is a major concern. How would this be managed?
+**UGA members invited to help
-*Project end: We will adapt some of the tasks for the Ohio project so people will have something constructive to do. Wilma plans to be finished with her parts (see below) by March 31.
+**Proposal: meet monthly if needed. Wilma can't on Jan 2, so meet Jan 9. Decide then when/if next meeting.
-**Next meeting: February 6th
+*Strategies [[How to Find Birth Information in the United States]]; [[United States, How to Find Genealogy Records]] (If James is back)
-*Strategies [[How to Find Birth Information in the United States]]; [[United States, How to Find Genealogy Records]] (If James is back): More than halfway through with the Utah page.
 Still needed:
-*[[Utah Record Selection Table]]
+*Record selection table
 *Wilma will focus soon on Library section, then Deaths, then Marriages.
-*Beginner's corner? Probably nothing until early next year that the "state pages" team meets.
+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 a previous meeting: Do only for Ogden, Davis, Salt Lake? and others with large compilations. P 13 of printed version Utah Research Outline granite stake, Ogden Stake, 289.3?...
+*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
+*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Experimental County#Naturalization and Citizenship|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 [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Experimental County#Death|Death]], Marriage
+*1 Census
+*1 [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Experimental County#Cemeteries|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.
-From previous meetings:
-*Not a priority: 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.)
-*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Experimental County#Naturalization and Citizenship|FS Catalog links]].
-**To do: once Libraries section is ready, show the FS Catalog links to the person who has not liked them.
-*Wording for other topics.
-*Census
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