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August 11, 2017

Newly Processed: June-July 2017

The following list includes record series that were processed at the Utah State Archives during the month of June-July 2017.
June 9, 2017

Newly Processed: May 2017

The following list includes record series that were processed at the Utah State Archives during the month of May 2017.
June 8, 2017

Newly Processed: April 2017

The following list includes record series that were processed at the Utah State Archives during the month of April 2017.

June 7, 2017

Newly Processed: March 2017

The following list includes record series that were processed at the Utah State Archives during the month of March 2017.

June 6, 2017

Newly Processed: February 2017

The following list includes record series that were processed during the month of February 2017.

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May 25, 2017

Butch Cassidy Indicted

As a preview to a brand new online collection called “Crime in Utah,” the grand jury indictment of the notorious Butch Cassidy from 1897 is now online. He and several others were accused of robbing the payroll from the Pleasant Valley Coal Company in Castle Gate, Utah. The case file is from the Seventh District Court for Carbon County. The
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April 28, 2017

Personal Digital Archiving

As part of Preservation Week, we wanted to share information on how you can preserve one of the more difficult forms of records both for institutions like the Utah State Archives and in our personal lives: digital and electronic. Why Digital is Special Paper is one of the more stable forms on which people have recorded information throughout history, using
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April 4, 2017

Join Us at the South Davis Family History Conference

On Saturday April 22, 2017 the Utah Genealogical Association will present the 20th annual South Davis Conference on family history. The Utah State Archives is pleased to join for the first time as a vendor and leading one of the 70+ classes and labs. 9:20 am – 10:20 am “What’s in the Utah State Archives?” Register and find more information
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March 13, 2017

Coming Soon

On October 1, 2017, Utah’s Division of Archives and Records Service will combine our two blogs into a single blog here at archivesnews.utah.gov. After October 1, we will no longer be posting on RecordsKeepers.blog and archivesresearch.wordpress.com. The posts on the old blogs will still be available in their original locations until our vendor can seamlessly move all of them over
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March 13, 2017

Records Preservation Grant Funding Available

The Utah State Archives and Records Service in cooperation with the Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board has grant funding available to non-profit cultural heritage organizations and local governments for historical records preservation projects. Funding can be used to help Utah repositories preserve at-risk, historic records and to provide access to important collections. These grants are intended for short-term projects.