The most popular baby names that were given in 1911 according to Utah birth certificates.
Highlights with Heidi: Lula Betenson
Although tax records have a reputation of being boring, they are a super useful tool for finding people in a specific location and time! To prove residency, a patron needed to find a property record in the Piute County tax records. I searched these records on their behalf and found a familiar name instead: Lula Betenson! You might ask, who is …
New Finding Aids at the Archives: February 2023
Our archivists write inventories as finding aids to describe records. Here is the newest one created during February 2023: Inventory of Board minutes from South Summit School District (Utah), 1915- Inventory of Class registers from South Summit School District (Utah), 1910-1915; 1921-1924; 1931-1932; 1942-1943. Inventory of Business license applications and bonds from Spanish Fork (Utah), 1882-1895; 1904-1909. Inventory of Mayor’s …
Utah Black History: Insight Into Alex Bankhead’s Life in Spanish Fork through Primary Source Records
Black Americans were among the first pioneer settlers to arrive in Utah, coming to the Great Basin as enslaved people. Although many lived in Utah long enough to become free, their enslaved status and later position on the fringe of Utah society have left us with incomplete versions of their stories. Secondary sources are often the only available records that …
Utah’s Black History: Green Flake
Early Life On January 6, 1828, Green Flake was born into slavery on the William Jordan Flake Plantation in North Carolina. Green was “gifted” to James, William’s son, as a wedding present in the 1840’s when Green was in his early teens. Shortly after marrying, James Flake moved to Mississippi in hopes of claiming land. Green was taken with the …
New Finding Aids at the Archives: January 2023
Our archivists write inventories as finding aids to describe records. Here is the newest one created during January 2023: The following series inventories were also updated:
February 6, 1911: Strike at Kenilworth Mine
My macabre curiosity always gets the best of me, and I couldn’t help but thumb through the pages of the Huntington City Register of Deaths, a compilation of death certificates, local duplicates of the official records that get filed with the state. They came to the State Archives during a transfer of records from Huntington City. I read each page, …
Utah Drought Solutions Under Governor George Clyde, 1957-1965
This blog post was written by Sadie Webster, a fall 2022 intern at the Utah State Archives and Records Services. She is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Library Science from Emporia State University. Drought is a common plague for the agriculture industry in the dry and torrid West, particularly in a place such as Utah where this industry is …
New Finding Aids at the Archives: December 2022
Our archivists write inventories as finding aids to describe records. Here is the newest one created during September 2022: In addition, the following were updated:
New Finding Aids at the Archives: November 2022
Our archivists write inventories as finding aids to describe records. Here is the newest one created during November 2022: