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=== Court Records === | === Court Records === | ||
=== Funeral Homes === | |||
===== Decisions, discussions, to do ===== | |||
Link to [[Utah Funeral Homes|Utah Funeral Homes]] page in process.<br> '''Discussions''' ''Merged [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 Aug 22#Progress_reports|Aug 22]] and [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 Aug 29#Progress_reports|Aug29]] discussions into one list.'' | |||
*Lois Fowles is almost finished inputting funeral homes on the county pages | |||
*Lois is also contacting the State Board of Funeral Directors with important questions | |||
**Funeral homes that have discontinued business: where are those records? | |||
**Laws that affect what records they create, what they keep. | |||
***Early times vs now. | |||
***When did the records begin to reflect only what was on a death certificate? | |||
***Typical practices for keeping records beyond what the law requires | |||
**Funeral programs, obituaries, other funeral-specific records created | |||
*We need a ‘’death-related records’’ page that discusses the paper trail when a death or burial occurs. | |||
**That page will discuss each record with it’s genealogical contents, years it was used, if still extant, how to access. It will be very nice to also have an image for each. | |||
***Current weakness: we talk about records in the Wiki, but not about why you should use them, or the contents, how to use the records, how to analyze, how and why to compare with other records, and include images of the records so they can see for themselves. | |||
***The beginner finds one record about death and thinks they found it all. Analyze, get more than just one. – and why they need to do this. | |||
***Liz did not find such a page on the Wiki in a quick look 8/29. | |||
***We need someone to research this in the Wiki. We DO need to know where burial permits, for example, are kept and how they are accessed, whether in the archives, in funeral homes, or held by sextons. | |||
**Records, paper (or computer) trail: what do they create for each death/funeral/burial. What do they keep? | |||
***Where are the records? Who has them, how do we access them, what years do they cover? | |||
***Differences between early records and later records. Do early records give more or less genealogical info? Does computer technology encourage more or less info gathered and preserved? | |||
***Is there more than just what is on the death certificate? | |||
***transportation records; embalming, care of body; another location for burial, esp if in different states; burial permits; purchasing gravesite, funeral programs; embalming, care of the body | |||
***Funeral homes that have gone out of business, where are those records? Do you have records from previous funeral homes. Do they know where early records might be? | |||
*Questionnaire for info gatherers or for the funeral homes themselves | |||
**What do users need | |||
***Years their records began, any gaps? | |||
***Did they preserve the funeral programs? | |||
***How to access those records. Suggested we give the contact info for the records person, rather than the front desk, if possible. | |||
**Types of records (but shall we do this in a general way, rather than each funeral home?) Do we have to ask each funeral home about each type of record, or just say that the records are typically these types. | |||
***Decided to do a deeper look into a few, and see if we need to expand it. | |||
***Sometimes they may have much more. We’d like people to know about it. | |||
**Do you have records from previous funeral homes. Do you know where earlier records might be? | |||
**Pros and cons of asking too much, or too little. Let's let the people ask whatever they want, and gather whatever they want. Make a basic project for now, and more detail later. We may discover some record types that are unique to Utah or that have not been considered previously. | |||
**Those who contact, if they have their cameras and request permission to take pictures. Copyright -- funeral home and family? | |||
**Wiki page for each funeral home? If we find out they are quite similar, don't need a separate page -- unless they have something unusual. | |||
*What will Funeral Homes want? | |||
**Will they care if they are listed on our Wiki? | |||
**Will they encourage or discourage people contacting them for genealogy? | |||
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=== Land and Property === | === Land and Property === | ||