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 18 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 over 7.2 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 | 1,617,617 |
| 1880 Census | 142,711 |
| Birth Certificates (1915-21, 1943-2010) | 2,435,858 |
| Marriage Certificates (1978-2010) | 686,594 |
| Divorce Records (1978-2010) | 298,863 |
| Death Certificates (1904-2010) | 781,103 |
| Fetal Deaths (1978-2010) | 9,051 |
| Social Security Death Index | 479,501 |
| Utah Cancer Records (1966-2009) | 277,673 |
| Idaho Cancer Records (1969-2010) | 165,476 |
| Driver License | 3,115,903 |
| Inpatient Hospital Claims (1996-2009) | 3,561,378 |
| Voter Registration | 1,586,961 |
| Ambulatory Surgery (1996-2009) | 3,399,968 |
| Total Records | 18.6 million |
| Links to external medical record sets | |
| University of Utah Health Sciences Center | 1,795,557 |
| Intermountain Healthcare | 3,747,282 |
Coverage of Data sets by year, last updated 03/16/2013
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.
