Weber County (Utah). Clerk of the County Court

• 1880 Census Lists of Persons, 1880.
• See this record’s story

Dept. of Community and Economic Development

• Agenda for the Eighties reports, 1980.

It will open once again Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 9 a.m.

• Department of Transportation Official Photograph Index, 1965-1998

The photographs that indexed here number in the hundreds of thousands–a true treasure unexpectedly found within government records. Find an interesting job in the index? Visit the Research Center to access the photographs from some of these series:

• Official Photographs, 1964-1998 (Series 24289)
• Official photographs: Thistle disaster documentation, 1983-1984.
• Subject Photographs, 1957-1970, 1979.

All public records at the Utah State Archives are accessible through the Research Center. However, once processed the records are easier to use with proper storage and fuller descriptions, including online series inventories. The following list includes record series that were processed during the months of November and December 2011:

Attorney General’s Office

• Colorado River Commission case files, 1925-1963

Battleship Utah Silver Service Committee

• Report to the Governor, 1911

Summit County (Utah). County Coroner

• Reports, 1913-1920

Water and Power Board

• Minutes, 1958-1967
• Administrative records, 1947-1956
• Correspondence, 1954-1955

• 1961

Narrow results by choosing both year and county. Within a folder, certificates are chronological by date.

Links will also be added to the series inventory. Death certificates become public 50 years after the date of the death. With key partnerships with the Office of Vital Records and FamilySearch, the Utah State Archives is actively working to toward a goal of yearly updates for online access, with name indexes added as soon as they are completed.

We will also be closed Monday, January 2, 2012 for New Year’s Day, opening again Tuesday, January 3, 2012.

Happy Holidays!

John Walter Holbrook

The Research Center for the Utah State Archives and Utah State History will be closed Friday, November 11, 2011 for Veterans’ Day. Normal hours will resume Monday, November 14 at 9:00 a.m.

Are you looking for military records? We have research guides online to help you:

• Utah Military Records Collection
• Service Records
• Discharges and Benefit Records
• Wars and Conflicts

Department of Natural Resources. Division of Parks and Recreation

• Administrative records, 1948-1979

Mugshot books

Thank you to the Salt Lake Tribune for covering the final Archives Month presentation featuring Robert Kirby.

By Janelle Stecklein

The Salt Lake Tribune

State historians on Friday launched an effort to collect law enforcement memorabilia Utahns might have stored away.

“It’s important to save our law enforcement history because it’s something being lost every second,” said Melissa Coy Ferguson, the manuscripts curator with the Utah State Historical Society.

She said many law enforcement journals, booking documents or other old items of interest are often tossed because people or agencies don’t know what else to do with them. Some are tucked away in attics or garages.

“A lot of times families don’t understand what they have,” Ferguson said.

Read more at Historians seeking Utah law enforcement memorabilia | The Salt Lake Tribune.