Salt Lake County, Utah, U.S., Births, 1890-1911

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Salt Lake County, Utah, U.S., Births, 1890-1911 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2023.
Original data: Birth Records, 1890-1911. Salt Lake County Digital Archives. https://slco.org/Digital-Archives/Vital-Records/details: accessed January 2023.

About Salt Lake County, Utah, U.S., Births, 1890-1911

About Salt Lake County, Utah, U.S., Births, 1890-1915

General collection information

This collection contains an index of county birth records from Salt Lake County, Utah between 1890 and 1915. All records are in English. Birth records from Utah are accessible to the public 100 years after the birth occurred.

Using this collection

Records in the collection may include the following:

  • Name
  • Birth year
  • Birth month
  • Parents’ names
  • Parents’ occupations
  • Parents’ residences
  • Parents’ age and birth place
  • Number of other children parents have together

    • Often, babies weren’t named at the time their births were registered. Some records might not list the child’s name, so it’s especially useful to search by parent name.

    These records contain information that can make finding birth certificates easy. If you want an official copy of a certificate, they can be purchased at VitalChek.

    Collection in context

    Salt Lake City began registering births in 1890. These are some of the earliest records available in Utah, as county clerks didn’t begin registering deaths until 1898. Utah began recording births on a statewide level in 1905. By 1916, Utah citizens who were born before the registration mandate could apply for a delayed birth certificate. Delayed birth certificates were filed more than one year after the birth occurred.

    In 1933, the U.S. government began to require the civil registration of births on a federal level for all states.

    Bibliography

    Cdc.gov “The Organization of the Civil Registration System of the United States.” Last modified May 1980, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/isp/008_the_organization_of_the_civil_registation_system_of_the_united_states.pdf.

    Morton, Sunny Jane. “Salt Lake City Research Guide.” Family Tree Magazine. Last Modified April 2012.https://familytreemagazine.com/us/utah/salt-lake-city-city-guide/.

    Utah Department of Health & Human Services. “Birth Records.” Last Modified May 2, 2021.https://vitalrecords.utah.gov/records.

    Utah Division of Archives and Records Services. “Research Birth Records.” Last Modified September 21, 2019. https://archives.utah.gov/research/guides/birth.html.