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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 February 2011: Governor (2005-2009 : Huntsman) Executive correspondence, 2004-2009. Press releases, 2005-2009. Schedule, 2005-2009.

In the immediate aftermath of  World War II, the Department of War and the Department of the Navy both published national lists of casualties for the U.S. Army and Army Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. The intent was to disseminate the information to the general public in a timely manner, for the benefit of next of kin,

The Research Center for the Utah State Archives and Utah State History will be closed Monday, February 21, 2011 for Presidents’ Day. It will open as usual Tuesday, February 22 at 8:30 a.m.

Finally picking up where we left off with the House of Representatives’ Bills in 2008, we are pleased to announce that the Senate Working Bills Files beginning in 1896 will be now be available online. Currently, work has been completed up through the beginning of the 1927 session (which equals just over 25% of sessions that will be part of

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 2011: Statehood Constitutional Convention State Constitution, 1895. | View Online Division of State

The oaths for Governor Herbert and Lt. Governor Bell recently sworn in January 3, 2011 are now online. State officers are required by both the federal and state constitutions to take an oath of office. The Constitution of the United States requires members of the legislature as well as all executive and judicial officers of the states to be bound

The Utah State Archives is pleased to announce that the 116-year-old Utah State Constitution is now available with a full text search on its web site. The Utah State Archives is also the custodian of the record which now may be viewed along side a typescript taken from the 1898 Revised Statutes of Utah at archives.utah.gov. The “engrossed” copy of

The Research Center for the Utah State Archives and Utah State History will be closed Monday, January 17, 2011 for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. It will re-open Tuesday, January 18 at 8:30 a.m. Don’t forget about all the online research opportunities like death certificates, birth certificates, legislative bills, learning how to use marriage records or court records and everything

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The Research Center for the Utah State Archives and Utah State History will remain open as normal Monday-Thursday 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. through the end of December. The Christmas and New Year’s holidays will each be observed on a Friday when it is usually closed. If you have been meaning to do some research and you have time off,