FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Project leaders meeting

Attend the meeting meeting ID: 3220. 9:00 a.m. Tuesday mornings, virtual meeting, not recorded.

11 Sept 2012

Nuts and bolts

• Poll for policy guidelines
• Handout for UGA conference in Sandy next week
  • Funeral homes, libraries, (church records?)
  • Their skill levels
  • Contact info -- theirs and ours
  • Inviting and interesting (help!)
• Plan tomorrow's meeting
  • How to find birth records in US/Utah?
  • Utah page report or discussion?
  • Births report or discussion?
  • Church records report or discussion?

Vision thinking (brainstorm)

• Death-related records page: Possible format at WikiHow

4 September 2012

• Birth templates, Utah State Archives, etc.
  • Can we have Liz proceed with birth area for all counties?
  • Just the state archive part or the entire "Since 1897" piece?
    • Liz went to BYU library and looked at every film. There are differences as some DO give the names of the children.
  • What about the other state archive holdings? Liz or prepare a project description?
• Pattern page for Church Records -- Wilma
• Funeral homes -- the bad news from Lois, plans for tomorrow's meeting
  • We will make further plans, but do they have
  • Strategy: pick a county - check death records for that county and look for names of funeral homes , then contact funeral director about that info.
  • Liz does Washington, Jana does Davis County.
• Sandy UGA Conference -- What shall we recruit with now?
  • Still funeral homes? Remove. Can still do it at last minute
  • Public libraries?
  • Gather names of willing people, include a date for training re: whatever tasks were suggesting
  • Liz/Jana suggestions?
    • Let's have both avenues ready: training for gathering, email info to contact person to enter it; or if you prefer to put it in yourself, contact x person for training.
  • Requests for images of various types of Utah records? (Baby books, Funeral Programs, etc.?)
• Utah page: request from the Thursday meeting group that we revamp it to interest and guide less experienced researchers. See England page for some ideas. -- Jana
  • What do we name this "sandbox" page? User:JanaStokes/Sandbox Utah
  • Shall we open it to someone else to do, or have us work on it with discussions? There is a difference when someone is writing it as opposed to a group putting it together
    • Painstakingly slow, but in the end it is just sooo good.
    • table at top is one suggestion
• Death-related records page: Possible format at WikiHow