All public records at the Utah State Archives are accessible through the Research Center. However, once processed the records are easier to use with proper storage and fuller descriptions, including online series inventories. The following list includes record series that were processed during the month of April 2012: Dept. of Community and Economic Development Community impact records, 1972-1985 Department of …
How do you research?
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Newly Processed: March 2012
All public records at the Utah State Archives are accessible through the Research Center. However, once processed the records are easier to use with proper storage and fuller descriptions, including online series inventories. The following list includes record series that were processed during the month of March 2012: MX Missile Policy Board Administrative records, 1979-1981. Draft environmental impact studies, 1980-1981. …
Battleship Utah Silver Service
Just over one hundred years ago, the people of Utah were asked to raise money for a silver service set to be presented to the new ship named in honor of the state, the U.S.S. Utah. A committee was formed to accomplish this task and their records may be found at the Utah State Archives (Series 1129). As part of …
Newly Processed: January 2012
All public records at the Utah State Archives are accessible through the Research Center. However, once processed the records are easier to use with proper storage and fuller descriptions, including online series inventories. The following list includes record series that were processed during the month of January 2012: Weber County (Utah). Clerk of the County Court 1880 Census Lists of …
Dept. of Transportation Photograph Index Online
The Community Relations Office of the Department of Transportation created an index to their official photographs. The office assigned a job number to each set of photographs taken or adopted by the office as official photographs. The job number provides access to all photographic material in the official photographs collection. Job numbers include a three-part number series. For each job …
The ten-hour day
Most government offices in Utah are now open from 8-5 Monday through Friday. Though some state employees have retained an option to work four ten-hour days, staff members at the Archives look back with nostalgia at the three-day weekend. Others think a ten-hour day is way too long. With diminished budgets and staff, government offices are attempting to do more …
Newly Processed: November and December 2011
All public records at the Utah State Archives are accessible through the Research Center. However, once processed the records are easier to use with proper storage and fuller descriptions, including online series inventories. The following list includes record series that were processed during the months of November and December 2011: Attorney General’s Office Colorado River Commission case files, 1925-1963 Battleship …
Browse Death Certificates Online, 1961
Although fully searchable name indexes are not yet available for all the latest death certificates, we are now able to offer digital images online that may be browsed by date and county, similar to the process when visiting the Research Center. 1961 Narrow results by choosing both year and county. Within a folder, certificates are chronological by date. Links will …
Newly Processed: October 2011
All public records at the Utah State Archives are accessible through the Research Center. However, once processed the records are easier to use with proper storage and fuller descriptions, including online series inventories. The following list includes record series that were processed during the month of October 2011: Department of Natural Resources. Division of Parks and Recreation Administrative records, 1948-1979