Overview

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. UPDB 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 almost 11 million unique individuals created from these records. The longitudinally linked data captures many events associated with an individual.

Records Available in UPDB

Source Records

Record Type	Years Available	Records
Original Family History Records	1700's - 1975	1,916,172
Vital Records
Birth Certificates	1915-21, 1929-2017	3,018,667
Death Certificates	1904-2017	902,053
Marriage Certificates Utah	1978-2010	689,275
Divorce Records Utah	1978-2010	298,925
Fetal Deaths Utah	1978-2017	11,107
Medical Records
Ambulatory Surgery Utah	1996-2017	6,806,482
Inpatient Hospital Claims Utah	1996-2017	5,840,073
Emergency Department	2015-2017 (older records forthcoming)	2,230,386
All Payer Claims Data	2013-2017	3,561,630
Utah Cancer Registry	1966-2017	378,829
Birth Defects Network	1995-2017	21,235
Additional Records
U.S. Census of Utah	1880,1900-1940	2,300,085
Social Security Death Index	Last updated 2011	581,373
Driver License Utah	Last updated 2019	3,997,558
Voter Registration Utah	Last updated 2016	2,069,001
TOTAL		31.74 million

Externally Linked Records

Record Type	Years Available	Individuals
University of Utah Health Sciences Links	1992-Current	2,069,001
Intermountain Healthcare Links	1992-Current	4,374,273
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services	1992-2012
Utah Department of Human Services	1995-2019	896,482

Coverage of Data sets by year, last updated 06/08/2018

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, 84 percent have grandparent information available in the UPDB and 67 percent have five or more previous generations documented in the UPDB.