Series 26955

District Court (Second District : Weber County) Probate registers of action

Dates: 1894-1986.

13.50 cubic feet and 27 microfilm reels

These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.

Scope and Content

Records and documents pertaining to a particular civil, criminal or probate action are filed together by the court clerk and collectively these documents constitute the case file. As these records or actions are filed, the clerk enters them in the registers which comprise this series.

A probate register of actions may contain the following entries for each case: the name or names of the individuals involved; the type of case being heard; the name of the petitioner's attorney; a list of each action taken in the case and the date that action was taken.

Arrangement

Numerical by case number, thereunder chronological by date.

Related Records

Probate record books from the District Court (Second District : Weber County), Series 6405, more fully document court proceedings as they relate to individual cases.

Probate case files from the District Court (Second District : Weber County), Series 6874, contains the complete case files cited throughout these record books.

Probate Court index from the District Court (Second District : Weber County), Series 21023, is comprised of an index book kept by the court which can be used to locate early probate index numbers.

Probate registers index from the District Court (Second District : Weber County), Series 26956, contains index books that can be used to access the entries in these register books.

Additional Forms

This series is available on microfilm.

This series is available online as part of the Utah State Archives Digital Archives.

Access Restrictions

Utah law, enacted in 1941, sealed all adoption records with the exception that they can be released upon a court order expressly permitting inspection (Laws of Utah, 1941, chapter 17, 14-1-15). This restriction has subsequently been amended (1999) to allow public access one hundred years after the date of final decree or access as provided for in a mutual consent registry (Utah Code 78-30-15, 18). The probate division's jurisdiction over adoptions preceded the enactment of these laws and therefore many adoption records were cited in record books kept by the court. Utah State Archives staff supervises access to this series in order to provide access to probate records, but not to adoption records.

Preferred Citation

Cite the Utah State Archives and Records Service, the creating agency name, the series title, and the series number.

Processing Note

This series was archivally processed by Jim Kichas in October 2008.

Finding Aids

Indexes: An alphabetical index is located at the beginning of each register.

Indexing Terms

• Court records--Utah--Weber County.
• Civil Procedure and Courts

Container List

REEL	VOLUME	DATE	DESCRIPTION
1	1	1894-1898	1-778
2	2	1899-1905	779-1370
3	3	1905-1911	1371-1962
4	4	1911-1916	1963-2562
5	5	1916-1919	2563-3160
6	6	1919-1922	3161-3686
7	7	1922-1926	3687-4276
8	8	1926-1930	4277-4894
9	9	1930-1935	4895-5534
10	10	1935-1939	5535-6174
11	11	1939-1943	6175-6814
12	12	1943-1946	6815-7454
13	13	1946-1949	7455-8094
14	14	1950-1953	8095-8734
15	15	1953-1957	8735-9374
16	16	1957-1960	9375-9978
17	17	1960-1963	9979-10626
18	18	1963-1965	10627-11272
19	19	1965-1968	11273-11822
20	20	1968-1970	11823-12372
21	21	1970-1973	12373-13020
22	22	1973-1976	13021-13668
23	23	1976-1978	13669-14218
24	24	1978-1980	14219-14768
25	25	1980-1982	14768-15317
26	26	1982-1984	15318-15867
27	27	1984-1986	15868-17147