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, as well as from Idaho cancer records. There are over 31 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 almost 10 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 | 1,909,936 |
| Ambulatory Surgery Utah (1996-2016) | 6,290,436 |
| Birth Certificates (1915-21, 1929-2016) | 2,929,761 |
| Cancer Data Registry of Idaho (1969-2015) | 204,412 |
| Cancer Registry of Utah (1966-2016) | 362,844 |
| Death Certificates (1904-2015) |
864,878 |
| Divorce Records Utah (1978-2010) | 298,866 |
| Driver License Utah | 3,878,825 |
| Fetal Deaths Utah (1978-2015) | 10,529 |
| Inpatient Hospital Claims Utah (1996-2016) | 5,547,405 |
| Marriage Certificates Utah (1978-2010) | 689,133 |
| Social Security Death Index (Nationwide) | 581,372 |
| U.S. Census of Utah – (1880-1940) | 2,300,085 |
| Voter Registration Utah | 2,070,080 |
| Total Records | 27.94 million |
| Links to external medical record sets | |
| University of Utah Health Sciences Link | 2,054,424 |
| Intermountain Healthcare Links | 4,302,801 |
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.