News

The Research Center will be closed Friday, September 30, 2011 for staff training. It will open again Monday, October 3, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. Visit historyresearch.utah.gov to access online research available anytime.

The Utah State Senate bill files from the first one hundred years of statehood are now available online from the Utah State Archives and Records Service. These working bill files may include multiple drafts, committee assignments or other revisions made during the legislative process. The Senate’s Working bill files from 1896 to 1989 are the newest additions the Utah State

Tomorrow is the final Friday that the Utah State Archives administrative offices, Records Center and Research Center will be closed as part of the Executive Branch’s “Working 4 Utah” initiative begun in 2008. Beginning Tuesday, September 6, 2011 (after the Labor Day holiday), all division offices and services will be available Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Following

The Research Center will be closed Monday, September 5, 2011 for Labor Day. It will open again Tuesday, September 6, 2011 with new hours of 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., including Fridays from this point forward.

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 August 2011: Bear River (Utah) Interment registers, 1895- Centerfield (Utah) Cemetery lot books, 1909-

As an update to an earlier post, birth certificate images for 1909 and 1910 are now online at archives.utah.gov/digital/81443.htm. Although they are not indexed by name yet, if one knows the birth date and county it should not be difficult to locate the correct location and browse through a few dozen images in chronological order for the time being.

The usual list of new series inventories is not particularly feasible this month. This is due mostly to the end stages of the microfiche backlog project which added or updated somewhere around 600 finding aids! Perhaps with final reports we will be able to compile a complete list in the coming months. Another project progressing well–and which also added many

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 June 2011: Legislature Little Hoover Commission administrative records, 1965-1966. Salt Lake City (Utah). Division

The daily schedules of Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. (2005-2009)  were created to coordinate his activities and obligations efficiently. Each day’s schedule records date, times, type of activity, often with notations, names of persons or groups with whom he would be meeting, and staff involved. Governor (2005-2009 : Huntsman) Schedule

For almost as long as there has been government in Utah, there has been the desire to reorganize, optimize, streamline and generally make it better. This past week, Governor Herbert announced the Advisory Council to Optimize State Government to fulfill recent legislation. The Utah State Archives holds records to several past projects of a similar nature and has made many