Alpine, Utah: Difference between revisions

Many experts recommend starting your research with the death records first. A first thought might be to begin instead with birth records, but the death record is the most recent record. It may be more likely to be available to you. Death records are kept in the state where your ancestor died, not where they were buried. However these records can provide a burial location. Death records are especially helpful because they may provide important information on a person's birth, spouse, and parents. Some researchers look first for death records because there are often death records for persons who have no birth or marriage records.  

Death records are frequently considered as Primary Source Records for the death and burial dates, locations and cause of death. They are secondary sources for birth information unless the birth occurred within days of the death.

Utah requires a death certificate before a burial is completed. A death certificate may contain information as to the name of the deceased,date of death and place of death, as well as the age, birth date, parents, gender, marital status, spouse and place of residence.<br>  

*For deaths before 1904 [http://history.utah.gov/burials/execute/searchburials Utah State Burial Index]

*[https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Special:Search?fulltext=true&search=Social+Security+Death+Index+%28SSDI%29 Social Security Death Index]&nbsp;

*[http://www.familysearch.org/searchapi/search/collection/1675546 Utah Marriages]