AGENCY: Salt Lake County (Utah). County Clerk

SERIES: 6688
TITLE: Marriage applications and licenses
DATES: i 1887-
ARRANGEMENT: Numerical by marriage license number

DESCRIPTION: The first two reels of this series consists of marriage licenses filed with the county probate court clerk. Beginning in 1888, an application was filed first. Then the marriage license was filed with the application. Later, they moved to bound volumes of applications with the license attached. These are original applications and licenses with original signatures. The series was assumed by the county clerk when the probate court was abolished.

Information on applications gives family history data: dates and places of birth, number previous marriages, parents' names, etc. The license includes names, addresses, and ages of bride and groom; date and number of license; date of marriage; title and signature of person performing the ceremony; and signatures of bride, groom, witnesses, and county clerk. If permission was required for the marriage of minors, that too was recorded.

Entries were numbered consecutively from number 1 beginning in 1887. In 1905, the clerk started over again with number 1. Renumbering was begun yet again in 1974; printer error in creating the forms accounts for the apparent gap between 1000 and 1801. In 1977, they chose not to use numbers 27385-27999. In 1983, renumbering was begun once more.

RETENTION

Retain permanently

DISPOSITION

May Transfer to Archives.

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

Retention and disposition for this series were specifically approved by the State Records Committee.

APPROVED: 03/1991

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: For records beginning in 1983 and continuing to the present. Retain in Office permanently.

Microfilm master: Retain in State Archives permanently.

Microfilm duplicate: Retain in Office permanently.

Paper: For records prior to and including 1982. Retain in Agency Record Center until microfilmed and then destroy provided microfilm has passed inspection.

APPRAISAL

Historical

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Exempt. UCA 26-2-22