FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Tasks County History

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Task Description

Add information or links to the History area (located under Quick Facts on each county page) for the 29 counties.

What to include in this brief history:

• Events that affected the record-keeping, such as:
  • Fires, floods, and other natural disasters that destroyed the records
  • Settlement, migration into or out of the county. This can include an influx of settlers from specific countries, such as Scandinavians, or religious groups.
  • Crop damage that led to ghost settlements.
  • Whatever is interesting and will help users know what happened, especially as if affected records and record-keeping.
• Links to Internet sites telling the history of the county. Please be selective, especially if the sites are redundant. Please also place those links under Local Histories, which appears under the Resources heading.

If you choose to do this in a timeline, please start each line in year-month-day format, then the event description. There is a blank table you may use by clicking on the Discussion tab at the top of this page. Simply copy it in WikiText to the county you are working on. 

If you are doing a timeline history, you may repeat information in the other sub-headings of Quick Facts (Parent County, Boundary Changes, Record Loss). Please don't repeat them if you are doing a short paragraph-style history.

Prototype:

You are welcome to choose between a timeline or a brief paragraph format. See show sample of timeline or show sample of paragraphs for examples.

Assignment Chart

Volunteers are needed to check all 29 counties, adding items as appropriate. Please place four tildes (~~~~) in the "Volunteer" column next to the counties you choose for this assignment. This will automatically give your username and the date you signed up.

County	Volunteer	Date Completed	Remarks
Beaver	.	.	.
Box Elder	.	.	.
Cache	.	.	.
Carbon	.	.	.
Daggett	.	.	.
Davis	.	.	.
Duchesne	.	.	.
Emery	.	.	.
Garfield	.	.	.Can we put the Bryce Canyon image elsewhere?
Grand	.	.	.
Iron	.	.	.
Juab	.	.	.
Kane	.	.	.
Millard	.	.	.
Morgan	.	.	.
Piute	.	.	.
Rich	.	.	.
Salt Lake	.	.	.
San Juan	.	.	. This county is not organized the same as other counties.
Sanpete	.	.	.
Sevier	.	.	.
Summitt	.	.	.
Tooele	.	.	.
Uintah	.	.	.
Utah	.	.	.
Wasatch	.	.	.
Washington	.	.	.
Wayne	.	.	.
Weber	.	.	.