Utah, State Archives Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
The collection consists of images to various record types held by the Utah State Archives. Record types include civil and criminal case files, divorce records, probate case files, and naturalization records for the counties and cemetery records for the cities.

The collection includes records from 1848 to 2001. The coverage of record type and date range varies by county and the time periods listed may have gaps.

Counties in this collection include Beaver, Box Elder, Cache, Carbon, Davis, Emery, Garfield, Grand, Iron, Juab, Millard, Piute, Salt Lake, San Juan, Sanpete, Sevier, Summit, Tooele, Wasatch, and Weber.

What Can These Records Tell Me?
The following information may be found in these records: • 3

Coverage Table
As of 5 April 2013 this collection contained the following records.

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I Found the Person I Was Looking For, What Now?

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 * Use the information found in the record to find land, probate and immigration records
 * Use the information found in the record to find additional family members in censuses. Witnesses were usually family members
 * Utah Church Records were kept years before counties began keeping records. They are a good source for finding ancestors before 1900

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Research Helps
The following articles will help you research your family in the state of Utah.
 * Utah Guided Research
 * Utah Record Finder
 * Utah Research Tips and Strategies
 * Step-by-Step Research: 1850-1905 | 1900-Present

Other FamilySearch Collections
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FamilySearch Catalog

 * Guide to official records of genealogical value in the state of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah : Utah State Archives and Records Service, 1980. FS Library 979.2 A33ut

 Historical Records Survey
 * Inventory of the county archives of Utah, no. 01, Beaver County (Beaver)
 * Inventory of the county archives of Utah, no. 14, Millard County (Fillmore)
 * Inventory of the county archives of Utah, no. 24, Uintah County (Vernal)
 * Inventory of the county archives of Utah, no. 27, Washington County (St. George)
 * Inventory of the county archives of Utah, no. 29, Weber County (Ogden)

 Cemeteries • 2 Naturalization  • 2 Divorce Court-Probate • 2 Land
 * Box Elder County, divorce records, 1875-1876
 * Davis County, divorce records, 1875-1886
 * Iron County, land records, 1872-1879
 * Salt Lake County, land claim records, 1871-1894
 * Summit County, land claim records, 1871-1878

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