Cache County, Utah Genealogy

United States Utah  Cache County

County Courthouse
Cache County Official Website

179 North Main St. Suite 102 Logan, UT 84321 435-755-1460

Parent County
5 January 1856: Cache County was created from part of the area of old Green River County of the former Utah Territory and unorganized territory.

Neighboring Counties
Box Elder | Rich | Weber Idaho counties: Bear Lake | Franklin | Oneida

Cemeteries (Rural)
For the cemeteries within or just outside the cities or towns, please refer to the listing of populated places above.

Mount Sterling


 * Findagrave.com

Old Ephraim's Grave


 * Findagrave.com

Cache County Cemeteries at the Utah Historical site

Census
For information and tips on accessing census records online, see Utah Census

The 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 U.S. federal population schedules of Cache County are available online. If you're having trouble finding your ancestors in national indexes, try checking local indexes. Created by experts familiar with the area's families, these indexes are often transcribed more accurately than nationwide indexes.

See Utah Population Schedule Indexes: Fiche, Film, or Book for more information about statewide printed indexes.


 * 1856
 * 1860
 * 1870
 * 1880
 * 1890
 * 1900
 * 1910
 * 1920
 * 1930

Church History and Records
Early church records, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for Cache County Wards and Branches can be found on film and are located at the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The film numbers, for each ward, can be locate through the Family History Library Catalog at https://www.familysearch.org/. Or by refering to Jaussi, Laureen R., and Gloria D. Chaston. Register of Genealogical Society Call Numbers. 2 vols. Provo, Utah: Genealogy Tree, 1982. (FHL book 979.2258 A3j; fiche 6031507). These volumes contain the film numbers for many (but not all) membership and temple record films.

Message Boards

 * Cache county Message Board from the county GenWeb site hosted by RootsWeb.

History

 * A Brief History of Cache County at the county GenWeb site was written by Larry D. Christiansen. It contains basic information about the county, statistics, and additional links to significant events, interesting features and individual histories.
 * A History of Cache Valley at the county GenWeb site compiled and written by M.R. Hovey in 1923 with a detailed table of contents.
 * Automobile History of Cache County, Utah at the county GenWeb site includes background information as well as an alphabetical listing of automobile owners from May 1909 through 1915.

Newspapers

 * One major resource for newspapers throughout Utah is the University of Utah's Utah Digital Newspapers project "with more than 600,000 pages of digitized Utah historical newspapers." The Utah Logan Journal from Cache County is included in this digital project. Read more... about using Utah newspapers for your family history research.

Archives and Libraries

 * Logan Library
 * 255 North Main Logan, UT 84321
 * Telephone: 435-716-9123
 * Special Collections include the former Everton Genealogical Library as well as local history, photos, and more.

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Hyrum Utah North Family History Center
 * Logan Utah Family History Center
 * Logan Utah YSA 3rd Family History Center
 * Logan Utah YSA 4th Family History Center

Logan Utah Family History Center

Marriages
33,211 marriages from 11 Apr 1859 to 7 Mar 1966 are listed on the Western States Marriage Index. Index is incomplete as there are no civil government recorded marriages prior to 1887 in Utah.

Deaths
Utah Death Certificates 1904 - 1956

A free internet access to the 1904-1956 death certificates can be viewed at https://www.familysearch.org/. Utah requires a death certificate before a burial is completed. A death certificate may contain information as to the name of the deceased, date of death, and place of death, as well as the age, birthdate, parents, gender, marital status, spouse and place of residence.

Web Sites

 * The Cache County UTGenWeb Project, a member of The UTGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Cache County.
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Cache County. (Backup site)
 * Cache County, Utah Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)