How to Find Birth Information in Utah
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See also Utah Utah Vital Records
See also United States, How to Use Birth Records
Introduction
Earliest Records
Finding birth information about an ancestor is key. Yet birth records weren't started in Utah until 1892 or later.
Records with Birth Information in the 1800s
Birth Records from 1900 to the Present
Alternative Records
- Family records including Family Bibles and personal histories
- Birth records including city and county civil registrations
- Death records often contain birth information
- Marriage records
- Census records sometimes give ages and in some records tell the month and year of birth
- Church records of births and christenings
- Obituaries often give birth information
- Cemetery records including Tombstonesusually give birth and death dates
- Funeral home records
- Emigration and immigration records
- Military records
- Newspapers often listed new births
- Probate records
- Land and Property records
References
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