Sanpete County, Utah Genealogy

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Parent County
1852--Sanpete County was created 3 March 1852 as an original county. County seat: Manti

Ghost towns
Clarion | Dover

Neighboring Counties
Carbon | Emery | Juab | Sevier | Utah

Cemeteries
The Utah State History Cemetery and Burials Database has records from these Sanpete county cemeteries: Centerfield, Chester, Dover, Fairview (upper and lower indexed together), Fayette, Fountain Green, Freedom, Gunnison, Indianola, Manti, Mt. Pleasant, Spring City Pioneer Cemetery, Sterling, Wales, Yorgason Family Cemetery. (current as of May 2009)

The Sanpete County GenWeb project has internment lists for these Sanpete county cemeteries: Fairview Pioneer Cemetery, Fountain Green Cemetery, Moroni Cemetery. (current as of May 2009)

Ephraim Park Cemetery. The City of Ephraim is putting Park Cemetery online.

Ephraim Pioneer Cemetery. This is not yet a complete list of interments; it is a work in progress - the result of individuals photographing tombstones and transcribing the cemetery's internment records and posting them at findagrave.com.

Census

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

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Axtell
 * Centerfield
 * Chester
 * Clarion
 * Ephraim
 * Ephraim N.
 * Ephraim S.
 * Ephraim W.
 * Fairview
 * Fairview N.
 * Fairview S.
 * Fayette
 * Fountain
 * Green
 * Freedom
 * Gunnison
 * Hamilton
 * Indianola
 * Manti
 * Manti Center
 * Manti N.
 * Manti S.
 * Mayfield
 * Milburn
 * Moroni
 * Moroni E.
 * Moroni W.
 * Mt. Pleasant
 * Mt. Pleasant N.
 * Mt. Pleasant S.
 * Mountainville
 * Oakville
 * Spring City
 * Sterling
 * Wales

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 Sanpete County is included in this digital project, the Manti Messenger. Read more... about using Utah newspapers for your family history research.

Vital Records
18,441 marriages from 25 Sep 1850 to 9 Feb 2007 are listed on the Western States Marriage Index.

Sanpete County Death Register 1898-1905. The scanned images are online and searchable at the Utah State Division of Archives &amp; Records Services.

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

 * Utah GenWeb project - Sanpete County. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Family History Library Catalog