Archives: Events
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Rose Park Baseball photos
During COVID, the Salt Lake City Library’s Day-Riverside branch worked with a generous citizen to scan and provide public access to hundreds of historic Rose Park Baseball photos and documents. The collection celebrates and archives the beloved program, as well as memorializes the coaches and players that have participated over the years. This is a…
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Tales of Park City Halloween Lecture
Park City Museum will host an in-person and virtual lecture called Tales of Park City Halloween given by Dalton Gackle on Monday, October 25th from 5-6 p.m. at the Education and Collections Center Building located on 2079 Sidewinder Drive. This lecture will also be broadcast on Zoom. Along with outlining the history of Halloween in the United States, Dalton…
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Digging Through History’s Dumpster: The Woman’s Exponent Advertising Database
In 2019 the Marriott Library worked with BYU’s Lee Library to re-digitize a complete archive of Woman’s Exponent, a newspaper published in Salt Lake City from 1872-1914. While the work to transcribe the complete text is ongoing, every advertisement from the paper was transcribed, cataloged, and made available in a searchable web database in 2021. Dr.…
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Using the FamilySearch Wiki
The FamilySearch Research Wiki is a free, online, genealogical guide that helps you find ancestors from around the world. Learn how to effectively navigate and use the Wiki to find websites, databases, records, and research strategies. Presented by Family History Library. To register go to https://bit.ly/36D49CJ
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Organizing Your Genealogy
Researching your family produces stuff, including names, dates, places, families, documents, newspapers clippings, pictures, charts, DNA results, and much, much more. Understanding what you have found, determining whether that information is valid, planning the next step in your research, and finding that information again later on all requires that you spend time organizing that stuff.…
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A Glimpse into the Societies of the Mid-Atlantic States
There are many types of societies that dedicate their resources to the preservation of materials especially helpful to genealogists. Many of these collections are unique and not available elsewhere. Explore some of the resources held by genealogical, ethnic, and other historical societies of the Mid-Atlantic region. Presented by the Family History Library. To register go…
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UVU Fulton Library Exhibit
Utah Valley University’s Fulton Library and Sutherland Archives staff have created a brand new exhibit entitled “Conversations in the Archives” for Utah Archives Month! Items include a letter from 1897, a two-way pager, an 8mm feel reel, and a Master Six Splicer from the ’50s! If you are in Utah County, make sure to check…
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Day of Remembrance Celebration and Black History Conference
The Sema Hadithi African American Heritage and Culture Foundation and the Utah Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society are excited to announce this year’s Day of Remembrance Celebration and Black History Conference. The events will take place on October 8-9, hosted by the University of Utah Black Cultural Center and the Fort Douglas…
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Terrace Utah, Population 0
Utah’s desert sands have buried incredible stories – now it’s time to uncover what has been lost. Hustling and bustling to starkly quiet, the life of one of Utah’s largest railroad towns of the 1870s-1890s remains part of the historical and archaeological record. Archaeologists with the Utah State Historic Preservation Office and the Bureau of…
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50 Stories for 50 Years Exhibit
Come explore 50 stories from the history of Weber County to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Special Collections. Learn about the Bagley train wreck, 3 O’Clock High, the Rocky Mountain Carnival and the Friendly Club. On October 5th at 7 p.m., Dr. Pepper Glass, Associate Professor of Sociology, will discuss his book “Misplacing Ogden” in…