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[edit | edit source]

Nuts and bolts

Poll for policy guidelines
Cancel next week.
Plan tomorrow's meeting (60 minutes)
- Utah page report or discussion? (5 minutes) Then possibly after James there will be time to open for questions which may entail both pages anyway. Jana to share?
- How to find birth records in US / Utah? (10 minutes)
  - Coordinate w/Utah page, since it will likely feed to it.
  - Let him report - limit the time. He may ask for feedback. We can place our feedback on his talk page or email.
- Births report - How many counties are done
- Church records report or discussion? (15 minutes)
Handout for UGA conference in Sandy next week
- Jana will create it (she has a MAC)
- Training could be offered in this meeting in October (Wilma will be in FamilyTree training)
- How many to print? Any ideas? Wilma check registration.
- Cost reimbursed by Wilma and will be reimbursed by UGA
- Funeral homes, public libraries, church records, local museums

Check the topic you are interested in.

- Which county(s) or city(s) do you prefer to work with? Fill in blank
  - What do we want them to do? 1) List the libraries, churches, etc., 2) link to website and catalog, 3) learn unique holdings?, 3) Utah or a county room or section?
- Turning in their papers? Contacting us?
- Form they will fill out and return it -- or contact info (new gmail account. UtahWikiProject (user name) password: ProjectLeaders2012 Liz will set it up.
- Their skill levels
  - Constructive use of their time
  - Do they want to 2) gather by phone, 3) in person, or only on the 1) Internet
- Contact info -- theirs and ours
- Inviting and interesting (help!) I can make a difference and I can learn something.
- Invite your ideas on how, and we want consistency
- We will provide a "pattern" and training at all levels
- Online (Training schedule: Tuesdays, 9 a.m. October

Vision thinking (brainstorm)

DUP museum, museums
Death-related records page: Possible format at WikiHow
Historical societies, archives -- gleaning

4 September 2012[edit | edit source]

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