San Juan County, Utah Genealogy

United States &gt; Utah &gt; San Juan County

== County Courthouse

117 South Main, Monticello, 84535

== History

Parent County

 * 1880--San Juan County was created 17 February 1880 from Kane, Iron, and Piute Counties. County seat: Monticello

Early Settlements
The earliest settlers to the San Juan area were part of a group which came to be called the "San Juan or Hole-In-The-Rock Mission." The policy from the beginning of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints or Mormon Church was to win the favor of the indians and to establish good relations. A list of some of many of those early settlers is available online.

Neighboring Counties
Emery | Garfield | Grand | Kane | Wayne | Arizona counties: Apache | Coconino | Navajo | Colorado counties: Dolores | Mesa | Montrose | San Miguel | San Juan County, New Mexico

Cemeteries
Blanding City Cemetery, Blanding Indian Graveyard, Bluff City FHL Book: 979.259 V3t

Census
The 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 U.S. federal population schedules of San Juan County are available online. For tips on accessing census records online, see Utah Census. 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.


 * 1880
 * 1890
 * 1900
 * 1910
 * 1920
 * 1930

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records

= Town Histories =


 * Blanding

On April 2, 1905 Albert Robison Lyman and his wife Mary Ellen Perkins and their baby Casse settled on white masa which was to become the city of Grayson. When the city became incorporated March 20, 1916 it was renamed Blanding.


 * Bluff
 * Grayson
 * La Sal
 * Lockerby
 * Monticello

Newspapers

 * One major resouce 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." One newspaper from San Juan County is included in this digital project, the San Juan Record. Read more... about using Utah newspapers for your family history research.

Vital Records
Utah Death Certificates 1904 - 1956 -A free internet access to the 1904-1956 death certificates can be viewed on the Family Search Record Search Pilot. 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 San Juan County UT GenWeb Project, a member of The UTGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
 * San Juan County, Utah Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * San Juan County, Utah Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)