Tooele County, Utah Genealogy

United States &gt; Utah &gt; Tooele County

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

Neighboring Counties
Box Elder | Davis | Juab | Salt Lake | Utah | Weber | Nevada counties: Elko | White Pine

Cemeteries
LDS Cemetery Records US Vol. 21 page 188 - Mercur Cemetery

Census
The 1850 [1851], 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 U.S. federal population schedules of Tooele 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.


 * 1850 (1851)
 * 1856
 * 1860
 * 1870
 * 1880
 * 1890
 * 1900
 * 1910
 * 1920
 * 1930

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Benmore
 * Burmeister
 * Clover
 * Deep Creek
 * Erda
 * Grantsville
 * Grantsville 1
 * Grantsville 2
 * Iosepa
 * Lake Point
 * Lake View
 * Mercur
 * Ophir
 * St. John
 * Stockton
 * Tod Park
 * Tooele
 * Tooele 1
 * Tooele 2
 * Tooele 3
 * Tooele 4
 * Tooele 5
 * Tooele 6
 * Tooele 7
 * Tooele 8
 * Tooele 9
 * Tooele 10
 * Tooele N.
 * Tooele S.
 * Vernon
 * Wendover

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." Two newspapers from Tooele County are included in this digital project, the Tooele County Chronicle and Tooele Transcript-Bulletin. Read more... about using Utah newspapers for your family history research.

Vital Records
4,630 marriages from 24 May 1855 to 4 Nov 1955 are listed on the Western States Marriage Index.

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 Tooele County UT GenWeb Project, a member of The UTGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project
 * Family History Library Catalog
 * Tooele County, Utah Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)