AGENCY: Division of Archives and Records Service

SERIES: 5339
TITLE: Veterans' burial locations cards and forms
DATES: ca. 1950-ca. 1990.
ARRANGEMENT: Alphabetical by surname.

DESCRIPTION: In the 1950s, the Archives began collecting information on veterans' burial locations. Starting in the late 1960s, most of the cards were converted to a computerized database (series 8490) with the original cards destroyed. The database itself was converted to fiche in 1986 and deleted. This series includes cards which were never converted to that database, updates which were never corrected on the database, and form letters received after the abandonment of the conversion project.

The data was initially collected to provide information to veterans' organizations on burial locations so graves could be flagged for Memorial Day. Form letters were sent to next of kin to obtain information. This information was then transcribed to cards (ca._1950-1970), which in turn were largely entered in the database; entered directly to the database (ca._1969-1986); or left on the letter after the abandonment of the project (post 1986).

Each entry in this series provides name, birth and death dates, military service data, and cemetery and plot. The majority of these veterans are those of the territorial era or the Spanish-American War who had died by the 1970s. The occasional form letters date to deaths in the mid-1980s.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

These records are in Archives' permanent custody.

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in State Records Center permanently or until microfilmed and then destroy provided microfilm has passed inspection.

Microfilm duplicate: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

Microfilm master: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Historical

This disposition is based on the records' documentation of Utah's veterans.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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