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Utah State Vital Records
Search records of births, adoptions, marriages, divorces, and deaths recorded on registers, certificates, and documents.

Bureau of Vital Records
Utah State Department of Health 288 North 1460 West Street Salt Lake City, UT 84114 Telephone: 801-538-6105 Internet: Utah Department of Health

Utah Death Certificate
Available from 1904–1958 Utah Archives

1904–1956 FamilySearch

Utah State Archives and Records Service.
The death certificates are also on microfilm and cover the years from 1904 to 1960. You may call, write, visit, or e-mail the archives for information. The address is listed in the "Archives and Libraries" page. Their Internet site provides more details

Utah Death Certificates
1904 - 1956 -A free internet access to the 1904-1956 death certificates can be viewed on the Family Search Record Search. 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.

County Records of Births and Deaths
Most counties began keeping ledger entries of births and deaths in 1898 to comply with a state law. County records to 1905 are kept in the county clerk's office.

Utah Genealogical Association
Early death records have been indexed 1898-1905 county death records for all counties except Salt Lake County. The index includes name, sex, age, death date, county page number, and entry or registration number.

Family History Library
Has copies of most of the county birth and death records from 1898 to 1905 and more recent records for some counties.

Deseret News Death and Marriage Notices
Abstracts of Deaths Notices in the Deseret News Weekly newspaper of Salt Lake City, Utah (1852-1888)

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~utsaltla/archive/obit_DeseretNews_1850s.html

Abstracts of Death Notices unique to the Deseret News Semi-Weekly of Salt Lake City, Utah (1865 to 1900)

FamilySearch Historical Records
Vital Records Kept by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Birth and death information for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the 1840s to the present is often available in membership records or annual reports. The Family History Library has records to 1948.

Guide to Vital Records
You can learn more about the history and availability of Utah vital records through the Internet at Bureau of Vital Records and Utah State Archives Internet sites.

The following book also provides information. The Utah State Board of Health sponsored the survey in 1941.

Guide to Public Vital Statistics of Utah. Salt Lake City, Utah: Historical Records Survey, 1941. [16]The book has four sections: birth, death, marriage, and divorce. It has samples of the documents being used and a copy of the instructions to the clerks and doctors on how to fill in the forms.

[edit] Tips Information listed on vital records is given by an informant. Learn the relationship of the informant to the subject(s) of the record. The closer the relationship of the informant to the subject(s) and whether or not the informant was present at the time of the event can help determine the accuracy of the information found on the record. If you are unable to locate vital records recorded by governmenents, search for church records of christening, marriage, death and burial. A family Bible may have been used to record births, marriages and deaths. Privacy laws may restrict your access to some vital records. Copies of some vital records recorded in the last 100 years may be unavailable to anone except a direct relative. Search for Vital Records in the Family History Library Catalog by using a Place Search and then choosing Vital Records. Search for Utah to locate records filed by the State and then search the name of the county to locate records kept by the county. [edit] Archives, Library and Societies Utah Archives and Libraries

Other birth, marriage, death, and midwife records are available at the Family History Library. These can be found using the Family History Library Catalog Place Search under:

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Territorial Records

Territorial vital records are on a compact disc for the 1800s to 1906. This index contains birth, marriage, guardianship, naturalization, divorce records and wills.

The Utah State Archives now has digital copies of death records online for the years 1905 thru 1958. You can search the index and access the digital images at:

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