The Utah Population Database (UPDB) is a dynamic
database and receives annual updates from contributors for Utah
births, marriages, divorces, deaths, cancer records, and driver
licenses, as well as from Idaho cancer records. There are over 14.5 million records in the UPDB and those records include names and
other information for family members. For example, a birth certificate
record includes the name of the child, mother, and father. Multiple
records for an individual are matched and a “person-oriented
record” created. There are about 6.4 million unique individuals
created from these records.
The longitudinally linked data captures many events associated with
an individual.
Records Available in UPDB
| RECORD TYPE |
RECORDS |
| Family History Records |
1,612,001 |
| 1880 Census |
142,711 |
Birth Certificates (1915-21, 1944-2008)
|
2,309,408 |
Marriage Certificates (1978-2008)
|
642,080 |
Divorce Records (1978-2008)
|
278,629 |
Death Certificates (1904-2008)
|
751,343 |
Fetal Deaths (1978-2008)
|
8,425 |
Social Security Death Index
|
479,497 |
Utah Cancer Records (1966-2007)
|
255,516 |
Idaho Cancer Records (1969-2007)
|
135,816 |
Driver License
|
3,060,281 |
Inpatient Hospital Claims (1996-2008)
|
3,284,454 |
Voter Registration
|
1,586,961 |
Total Records
|
14.5 million |
|
|
Links to external medical record sets
|
|
University of Utah Health Sciences Center
|
1,377,126 |
Intermountain Healthcare
|
3,446,849 |
Generations
The Utah family histories represent pedigrees that may span as many
as eleven generations. The majority of families living in Utah are
represented in this database with a special emphasis on genealogy
records of the pioneers of Utah and their Utah descendants. Merging
data from genealogies and birth certificates allows information
for new generations to be added and most families can be linked
across five generations. For example, looking at all individuals
born in Utah in 1950, 79 percent have grandparent information available
in the UPDB and 67 percent have five or more previous generations
documented in the UPDB.
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