The Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board Wins 2025 Award of Merit

For the third consecutive year, the Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board (USHRAB) has received the State Historical Records Advisory Board Award of Merit from the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). The Award of Merit recognizes outstanding efforts by state boards to strengthen the preservation and use of historical records. Utah’s

The Utah Division of Archives and Records Service was honored with two awards from the Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists (CIMA) at their annual conference last month.  Archival Project Award: Colorado River Compact Project In 2022, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Colorado River Compact, our team digitized over 40,000 records that document the negotiation of the

The Utah Division of Archives and Records Service is pleased to announce that Gina Strack, Digital Archives Program Manager, has been honored with the 2022 CIMA Service Award from the Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists (CIMA), an association of archivist, conservators, historians, and archival professionals from Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, and New Mexico. The CIMA Service Award is given to an

The Utah Death Certificate Index was named one of the best state websites for 2010 by Family Tree Magazine. In genealogy, as in real estate, it’s all about location, location, location. Finding where your ancestors lived is the first step in identifying records about them. Fortunately, the internet-ization of America also has swept over the nation’s state archives, historical and