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Goal 9: Learn about Utah newspapers.
Choices
ALearn about Utah newspapers.
Summary
- Discover the history of Utah newspapers.
- Learn more about how to use Utah periodical and manuscripts.
- Learn about Utah newspapers in these articles.
FS—Wiki: Utah Newspapers
AC—Wiki: Vermont Periodicals, Newspapers, and Manuscripts - Learn about using Utah digital newspapers for research.
BYU: Using Utah Digital Newspapers for Research—61:34
- Learn about researching historical Utah newspapers in this tutorial from The Ancestor Hunt. Research Free Historical Utah Newspapers—9:16
BExplore Utah newspapers.
Summary
- Find research clues in the Library of Congress historical newspaper collection.
- Search Utah online newspaper sites.
- Search for
Utah historical newspapers in the Library of Congress collection. - Find links to Utah newspapers on the Wikipedia site.
- Explore Utah newspaper resources on the Ancestor Hunt site.
- Explore historical newspapers on the Old Newspaper Research site.
- See additional Utah newspaper resources on the Linkpendium site.
- Explore additional links for Utah newspapers and obituaries on the LDSGenealogy site.
- * Good: Using the articles and videos in this Choice, write down key learnings for newspaper records. Then use the learnings for searches for a U.S. ancestor.
- * Proficient: Same as above, for two or more ancestors.
Record Search Practice |
The obituary for Charles A Hughes was published in a Utah newspaper. Use the "AC: Salt Lake Tribune, The (Salt Lake City, Utah)" QUIKLink below to answer these questions:
- Where did Charles die?
- Who are his parents?
- How many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great grandchildren did Charles have?
- Click the QUIKLink mentioned above.
- In the search screen, enter "Charles A" as the first name and "Hughes" as the last name.
- In the search results screen, select the first result and read the article with the Charles A Hughes name highlighted.
- Charles died in a hospital in St. George, Utah.
- His parents are James Hughes and Carmella Mariah Burgess Hughes.
- Charles had 68 grandchildren, 105 great-grandchildren, and 3 great-great grandchildren.
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Utah Counties
Name = FamilySearch; A = Ancestry; L = Linkpendium; G = Genealogy Inc; U = USGenWeb; T = GenealogyTrails
Get a printable map of counties.
Get an interactive map of counties.