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Many societies have libraries and archive holdings, with biographical and genealogical records. These collections will be listed under '''[[Utah Societies]].'''  

See also [[United States Archives and Libraries]] for a more extensive list of libraries on a national basis.  

[[Utah State Archives]]{{·}} [[Utah State Historical Society]]{{·}}[[Church History Library]]{{·}} [[Daughters of Utah Pioneers]]{{·}} [[Logan Public Library]]{{·}} [[Salt Lake City Public Library]]{{·}} [[Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library|BYU Lee Library]]{{·}}  [[Family History Library]]{{·}} [[BYU Family History Library]]{{·}} [[Logan Utah Family History Center|Logan Family History Center]]{{·}} [[Ogden FamilySearch Library]]{{·}} [[Riverton FamilySearch Library]]{{·}} [[St. George Utah FamilySearch Library/Resources|St. George FamilySearch Library]]{{·}} [[Bancroft Library]] at UC Berkeley{{·}} [[National Archives at Denver]]

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*The [[Mountain West Digital Library]] is a search portal for an aggregation of digital collections from more than 50 universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, and historical societies in Utah, Nevada, and Idaho. It is in partnership with 60 academic libraries, public libraries, museums, historical societies, cities, counties, and state agencies from Utah, Nevada, Idaho, and Hawaii (coming soon: over 60 new partners in Arizona!)

*[http://pioneer.utah.gov/home.html Pioneer: Utah's Online Library] includes Centennial county history series; Utah historical serial publications; Utah Session Laws from 1851 (requires a [Utah] library card).

[[Image:Denver & Rio Grande Western Depot in SLC.jpg|thumb|right|280px|State Historical Society and State Library at the Rio Grande Railroad Station in Salt Lake City]]

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The Research Center is in the historic Rio Grande building and serves researchers of both the '''Utah State Archives''' and the '''Utah State Historical Society''' below.  

::346 S Rio Grande St<br>Salt Lake City, UT 84101<br>Phone: (801) 531-3848<br>Internet: [http://archives.utah.gov Utah State Archives]

:::The Utah State Archives and Records Service is a state government agency that works with records created by state and local governmental entities in Utah. Records of historical value are preserved and are available for research. The Archives also has the [https://archives.utah.gov/research/indexes/ Records Service: Name Indexes] database.

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::300 S Rio Grande St<br>Salt Lake City, UT 84101<br>Telephone: (801) 245-7225<br>Internet: [http://heritage.utah.gov/history Utah State History]

[https://heritage.utah.gov/library '''Utah State Library'''][[Image:Utah State Library.jpg|thumb|right|280px|Utah State Library in Salt Lake City]]<br>250 North, 1950 West, Suite A<br>Salt Lake City, UT 84116-7901<br>Telephone: 801-715-6777<br>Fax: 801-715-6767<br>Internet: [http://heritage.utah.gov/library Utah State Library Division]

[https://silver.health.utah.gov/ '''Utah Vital Records Office''']<br>PO BOX 141012<br>288 North 1460 West<br>Salt Lake City, UT 84114-1012<br>Telephone: (801) 534-4694<br>Internet: [https://usvitalrecords.org/utahhome.html?utm_source=bing&utm_term=%2Bvital%20%2Bstatistics&utm_campaign=UT+%28No+UT%29+-+Bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=dW9IlOrh_pcrid_1516571903_pkw_%2Bvital%20%2Bstatistics_pmt_bb_pdv_c Vital Records&nbsp;Office]<br>  

[[Image:Church History Library.jpg|thumb|right|170px|History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Library in Salt Lake City]]

[[Church History Library|'''Church History Library''']]<br>The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints History Library<br>15 East North Temple Street<br>Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3800<br>Library Telephone: 801-240-2745<br>Archives Telephone: 801-240-2272<br>Internet: [http://www.churchhistorylibrary.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints History Library]  

:The Church History Library collection is especially strong for early Utah and Mormon pioneers.<ref name="DB109" /> You will need to bring identification with a photograph, such as a driver's license, to use some of the records. Church History Library material does not circulate to Family History Centers.

[[Image:Pioneer Memorial Museum Salt Lake City Utah.jpg|thumb|right|280px|The Daughters of Utah Pioneers Memorial Museum in Salt Lake City]]'''[[Daughters of Utah Pioneers]]'''<br>300 N Main Street<br>Salt Lake City, Utah 84103<br>Telephone: 801-532-6479<br>Fax: 801-532-4436<br>E-mail: [mailto:info@isdup.org info@isdup.org]<br>Internet: [http://www.dupinternational.org/index.php Daughters of Utah Pioneers]

:Houses many records pioneers brought with them including Bibles, photos, diaries, journals, and letters. Also has compiled genealogies on nearly every pioneer that arrived before 1869.<ref name="DB109" />

===Brigham City Library===

:The Salt Lake City Public Library has a good heraldry collection, and better than average Western Americana collection including books about Latter-day Saint and other ethnic pioneers. They&nbsp;participate in inter-library loan service. Their noteworthy genealogically related databases include: HeritageQuest Online, The Pioneer (Utah's online library), Utah Digital Newspapers, Digital Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps 1865-1970, Gale Virtual Reference Library, and the Biography Resource Center.<br><br>

University Libraries may have unique collections useful for history and genealogy. These may include oral history interviews, family collections, and doctoral dissertations, to name a few.  

[http://library.weber.edu/guidetest.cfm/ '''Stewart Library''']<br>Weber State University<br>2901 University Circle<br>Ogden, UT 84408-2901<br>Telephone: 801-626-6515<br>Toll Free 877-306-3140<br>Fax: 801-626-7045 <br><br>  

[[Image:Family History Library.jpg|thumb|right|280px|Family History Library in Salt Lake City]]

===[[Family History Library]]===

35 North West Temple Street<br>Salt Lake City, UT 84150<br>Telephone: 801-240-2331<br>Fax: 801-240-1584<br>E-Mail: [mailto:fhl@ldschurch.org fhl@ldschurch.org]<br>Internet: [https://familysearch.org/ FamilySearch] Family Tree pedigrees, Memories photos, Search historical records, Genealogies, FamilySearch Catalog, and FamilySearch Wiki<br>

:450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, and records of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Many '''Utah''' microfilms are also at branch '''''[[Introduction to Family History Centers|FamilySearch Centers]]''''' in local church buildings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and described in their online [[Introduction to the FamilySearch Catalog|FamilySearch Catalog]].<ref name="DB1">Dollarhide and Bremer, 1.</ref>

162 North 400 East 2nd Floor<br>St. George, Utah<br>Telephone: 435-673-4591<br>E-mail: [mailto:stgeorgefsl@gmail.com stgeorgefsl@gmail.com]  

[[Image:Bancroft Library.jpg|thumb|right|280px|Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley in California]]

:'''''Archival&nbsp;''''' holdings consist of Federal records from the mid-1800s to the late 1900s received from over 100 Federal agencies and courts in Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, '''Utah''', and Wyoming. Includes Utah plural marriage cases, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and federal naturalizations. The '''''Federal Records Center&nbsp;''''' maintains non-current retired Federal records.<ref>[http://www.archives.gov/denver/ National Archives at Denver] in ''National Archives'' (accessed 5 September 2015).</ref>

To locate libraries in Utah, the state library maintains an updated site to public libraries.  

:[http://library.utah.gov/directory/index.html Utah State Library Directory]&nbsp;The directory has links to each library web page, provides addresses, phone numbers, hours, and maps.