Meeting with BYU on Jun 23

To Do

Notes

• There is momentum in the church history department (LDS)
  • BYU has a lot of students who want to work on this
    • Could be data entry and transcription
  • LDS has grants if we can sell it to them
• Integrated ancestors project
  • Immigration records
  • PDF records from 1854-188x, plus another group from 1849-
• Brandon: Early Saints
  • Using ArcMap
  • High priorities:
    • Get small databases to be sharable
    • Luther is creating a match table (identity matching between–and within–databases)
      • Basically, what IATH is hiring me to do
  • Sample
  • He is trying to import Layton’s information from her research, and Luther is working on hosting her database
  • Main people lived in the core of downtown (center of town)
  • The LDS church owns most of the central land of Nauvoo. But they have 6 blocks missing (owned by private people)
  • Brandon is using his class to fill out the parcel data and matching historical and current records.
• Kathleen
  • Interested in aritficial kinship structure (the construction with sealings and adoptions)
  • Suggestion: tree for marriages rather than chord diagrams
  • She thinks they are family-constructing activities
  • She wants the neighborhood connections figured out (people who JS trusted)
  • Fascinated to see who is adopted to John Taylor
  • Marriage is a metaphor for what they’re doing (these are different kind of sealings, they are not marriages or adoptions)
  • Numbers on the chord diagrams of adoption, biological, sealings, etc.