UTAH Archives

If you have public-domain documents that would help other researchers, please submit them to the Utah USGenWeb Archives Manager. These archives depend fully on donations of files and volunteers to transcribe items for us. Contributions by folks like you, are what makes this project grow.

NOTE: To Submit a Family Group Sheet, Family Group Sheets, Please follow instructions.

RECENT UPLOADS

You can help further Utah Genealogy by offering your census information, wills and other public domain documents to the UTGenWeb Archives! 

Nothing copyrighted, unless you have written permission from the author. Please contact me, Christine Goff, UT's Archive file manager, if you would like to add your public domain documents to the archives.

Be sure to read "More Information About Sending Files". 

Also you can check out The USGenWeb Time-to-Do page for more about the guidelines for submitting files.

The Archives provides you with FREE access to these files. The files have been donated by other researchers, such as yourself. Please do not send queries here, they will not be answered. We do not do private research, look-ups, answer family or county queries here at the archives. If you have a query, please....contact the county host. There you can find a list of all the county coordinators and links to the individual county pages. Check these pages out they all have wonderful informtion to help you in your research!

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING FILES

1. Only virus-checked files will be accepted.

2. Text is preferred and depending on the size, we may zip it. Also, no tables. Please use spaces and not tabs in the text. Tabs cause everything to go loopy when I post it. Non-text may be converted to text before storing. Large files may be split. We may, at our discretion, store the same data in several formats. Scanned documents will be considered, depending on their content. For some other tips on the text files check out The USGenWeb Time-To-Do

3. All data is free to the public, the USGenWeb Archives project will not pay royalties on any submissions.

4. Data is provided for downloading "as is" -- no guarantees of anything

5. File contributors must use their own discretion regarding the inclusion of data on living people.

6. We will "not accept gedcoms" due to space considerations.

7. No executable files will be accepted.

8. Do not send copyrighted material, unless it is your own, and you include a statement of permission to use in the document.

Note: Public domain records cannot be copyrighted.

9. No anonymous submissions.

10. We cannot guarantee permanency, in the event data is lost.

11. Any obviously false, malicious, libelous, or copyrighted data will be erased. We do not guarantee the validity of any files.

12. These guidelines are subject to change.

13. Once submitted, the data can't be retracted by submitter.

14. We retain the right to refuse any submission.

15. State archive coordinators must follow the rules established for the archives. The archive committee will have "owner" access to all state directories.

16. Files in the USGenWeb Archives may not be copied for selling in any format.

AOL Members Please Read:

There is no password required to read USGenWeb Archives files online or to download them. If you use AOL's built-in web browser, it might ask you for a user name and password. To work around this, do the following:

1. Enter keyword FTP
2. Click on "Go to FTP"
3. Click on "Other site"
4. Enter the address of the archives and Do NOT check the box "Ask for login and password."
5. Click on "Connect"

The above will put you in the main directory of the USGenWeb Archives. From here you can click on any state directory, which will take you to a directory listing the counties. You can choose the county of your choice, then go to other sub-directories which will be identifiable by subject, such as "census", "vitals", "cemeteries", etc.