Agenda

1. Discuss database organization
   • New database diagram, as discussed. Full-size image.
     
2. Start grabbing Jill’s data now?

Notes

1. General discussion
   • Sealings and Marriages
     • should only be 1 officiator for sealing
     • 2 witnesses for sealing
     • will put anomalies for additional officiators of marriages in the notes
   • Need ecclesiastical title and dates in the database (use in Church Org Membership table)
2. Brown book:
   • Endowment dates: Dec 1845, Jan-Feb 1846
3. Discussion with Rick Turley
   1. How to show types of marriages (color?)
      • sealings (time, eternity) vs civil
      • suggests using color for the connection
      • What we should do – chords among parents in a marriage for the sealing types (colors for types)
   2. Track settlement companies as well as pioneer companies
      • We should keep track of where they settle, so we can see how the company led to a social network and marriages based on where they settled (settlement/pioneer company -> marriages?)
   3. Initial groups to consider
      • AQ (good church group)
      • Relief society
      • 1-2 Pioneer companies (on-foot group that moves)
        • Advanced company (will give sealings)
        • Vanguard company (Kimball, but he goes back)
        • The Big Company (combination of a few companies)
          • 1847, following Vanguard company
        • Giant companies (under Pratt, Taylor)
          • This is The Big Company above, I think
      • Good families
        • all members of 12 and 1st presidency can be tracked through 1860
        • Benjamin Franklin Johnson (huge family) BYUID=1515
        • Amasa Mason Lyman BYUID=33365
        • Aaron Johnson BYUID=1318
        • Oliver Huntington BYUID=289
   4. Pre 1908-tithing records are available
      • arranged by locality
      • identifies person by surname, first name, and lists their contribution
4. Questions to continue considering:
   • How to denote root marriage in database?
5. Demonstration to LDS Archives
   • Visualizations of:
     • sealed and blood relationships
       • Annointed Quorum
       • Heber C Kimball company
         • Show adopted sons and who might spin off into towns
     • Brigham Young
     • Heber C Kimball
       • lots of adoptions
     • Aaron Johnson BYUID=1318
     • Oliver Huntington BYUID=289

To Do

1. Get nicer way to grab marriage IDs to Joseph
   • send: http://ford.cs.virginia.edu/nauvoo/
2. ask worthy about getting someone to help with scripting in Jill’s data and Brown data
   • Kathleen will pay for someone to make it faster
3. Finish database organization, import Jill’s data