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United States Utah Archives and Libraries

Guide to ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

Family History Library 35 North West Temple Street Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3400 Phone: 1-801-240-6996                Hours Mon: 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Tues-Fri: 8:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. Sun: Closed Holidays: Click Here      Like us on Facebook! Facebook logo.jpg

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Classes, Hours, Parking: 1 801-240-6536

• Lost and Found: 1 801-240-5624
• Group Reservations: 1 801-240-4673
• World Wide Support Research Help: 1-801-240-2584

Hours: Normal Hours of Operation

• Mon: 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
• Tues-Fri: 8:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M.
• Sat: 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
• Sun: Closed

Holidays: Click here

Maps: Google Map; MapQuest.

Parking and Transportation:

Parking can be an issue in downtown Salt Lake City. The following parking is available in the area:

Free: Parking lot behind the Church History Museum

• Monday to Friday, 4:30-9 pm; all day Saturday
• Limitations: Closed during Conference Center events, and from the day after Thanksgiving to January 2nd. Parking subject to availability.

Pay: For a Family History Library area pay-parking lots map click here. Pricing is subject to change and is not controlled by the Family History Library. As of July 16, 2013 the following fees apply:

• Salt Palace Parking a maximum of $12.00 per day.
• Lot on the northwest corner of North Temple is $2 under 1 hr, $5 under 2 hrs, $8 under 12 hrs
• The JSMB underground parking is a flat rate of $10.

Public Transportation: For FrontRunner (commuter rail), TRAX (light rail), and bus public transportation information see the Utah Transit Authority Internet site.

Library Resources

Classes and Online Webinars

Attend classes in person in the Family History Library or view some of them online as a Webinar. Click on the month to see a list of all classes. All classes and webinars are free to the public. View the following schedules using Google Chrome, or Internet Explorer. They may NOT appear using a Mozilla Firefox browser.

October 2015 Schedule
November 2015 Schedule

Click the link to view handouts for the webinars.

Click the link to view past webinars.

Collection Description

Largest genealogical collection in the world—it is especially strong for the United States, British Isles, Scandinavia, Mexico, and parts of Germany, but also has material from all parts of the world. Includes civil vital births, marriages, and deaths, church records, county and local histories, court records, military records, probate records, American passenger arrival lists and naturalizations, and land records. The large microfilm and book collections are being digitized and are showing up on the FamilySearch Internet site.

Subscriptions websites available at the Library

Click the link Subscriptions websites at the FHL link to see what subscription websites are accessible at the Library. 

Guest Resources

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  Over 500 public guest computers
• Over 300 microfilm readers
• 36 microfiche readers
• 27 digital microfilm and microfiche copiers (to paper or to flash drive)
• 3 HD book scanners
• 14 book copiers (to paper or to flash drive)
• Seating capacity for 375 at tables
• Orientation and research classes
• Currently about 30 full-time and part-time professional staff
• Approximately 600 trained volunteers
• British Isles Research Specialists Directory
• International Research Specialists Directory
• United States and Canada Research Specialists Directory

Donations

Gifts of family histories, autobiographies, biographies, indexes, local histories, and well-organized collections of genealogy research are welcome. If you own the copyright, you can indicate that you would like the item digitized for the Internet. More details about donations.

• Donations Guidelines.
• If you have questions about donations please contact:
  Book Donations
  Telephone: 1-801-240-1855E-mail: bookdonations@familysearch.org

Request a "Vault Film" before Visiting

Films in the "Vault" take several days to reach the Family History Library. If the Catalog shows a film is in the vault, order it ahead of time so it will be at the Library when you arrive. For details see Order Process.

United States and Canada Research Consultants

Plan Group Visits

Click the link to review the Group visit options and make a reservation.

Library Rules

Click the link Library Rules to see the up-to-date rules in the Family History Library.

FamilySearch Centers

FamilySearch Centers are branches of the Family History Library
Over 4,500 family history centers operate in more than 100 countries
Local FamilySearch Centers are staffed by helpful volunteers
Click here to locate a nearby family history center, or call 1 866-406-1830 in the United States or Canada. Click here for the map-based locator.

Alternate Repositories

If you cannot find a source you need at the Family History Library, a similar source may be available at one of the following.

Repositories with very large genealogical collections
Library of Congress, Washington, DC, Local History and Genealogy Reading Room is part of the world's largest library including 50,000 genealogies, 100,000 local histories, and collections of manuscripts, microfilms, maps, newspapers, photographs, and published material, strong in North American, British Isles, and German sources.

National Archives I, Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service & pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, federal bounty land, homesteads, bankruptcy, ethnic sources, prisons, and federal employees.

Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana, home of the Periodical Source Index (PERSI), more than 350,000 printed books and 513,000 items of microfilm/fiche including family histories, censuses, city directories, passenger lists, military records, local histories, American Indians, African Americans, Canadian, British, & German collections.

Repositories with significant Latter-day Saint collections
Church History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, LDS history 1830-now: diaries, manuscripts, Church records, photos, oral history, architectural drawings, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, maps, microforms, audiovisual material

Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Salt Lake City, Utah, the Museum displays artifacts, and the History Department collects and preserves about 100,000 histories of pioneers who set out for, settled, or were born in Utah by 10 May 1869.

Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, family histories, photographs, books, manuscript collections, telephone directories, maps, newspapers, yearbooks, and periodicals are available in the Research Center and online.

Neighboring repositories
Brigham Young University Library, Provo, Utah, genealogy, history, census, Family History Center, digital family history.
Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, Utah newspapers on microfilm, and genealogical databases.
Utah Vital Records Office, Salt Lake City, Utah, statewide births and deaths since 1905; marriages and divorces since 1978.
Utah State Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah, newspaper, death, land, court, history, naturalization, military, directories, criminals.
Utah State University, Logan, Utah, Special Collections and Archives local historical and biographical sources.
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, history, biography, newspapers, government documents, and Western Americana.
United States District Court of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, federal court records.
Salt Lake County Court, Salt Lake City, Utah, local court records.
Salt Lake County Clerk, Salt Lake City, Utah, county marriages since 1887, probate records since 1852.
Salt Lake County Recorder, Salt Lake City, Utah, property, tax, and military discharge DD-214 papers.

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