Utah, Church Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
This collection contains church records from the Congregational Church located in Provo, Utah. The information found in the church registers includes:
 * Church Registers, 1915-1926
 * Baptisms, 1915-1928, 1954-1969
 * Marriages, 1922-1925, 1963-1972
 * Deaths, 1955-1971

Other records may include: Lists of Officers, Members Received and Removed, and Minutes

What Can these Records Tell Me?
Church records may contain:
 * The names of members
 * Dates of significant events
 * The names of relatives

How Do I Search This Collection?
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 * The name of the individual
 * The approximate date and or location of the event

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I Found Who I was Looking for, What Now?

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 * Search for vital records such as birth,marriage, and death on the state or county level
 * Use the information found in the record to find land, probate and immigration records
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 * If you cannot locate your ancestor in the locality in which you believe they lived, then try searching records of a nearby town or county
 * Try different spellings of your ancestor’s name
 * Remember that sometimes individuals went by nicknames or alternated between using first and middle names

Research Helps
The following articles will help you in your research for 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

FamilySearch Catalog

 * Provo. Congregational Church Records, 1883-1981

FamilySearch Digital Library

 * Utah Historical Records Survey, Division of Professional and Service Projects Work Administration. Inventory of the church archives of Utah. 3 volumes. Salt Lake City, Utah : Utah Historical Records Survey, 1940

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