This file is as complete and accurate as possible, however if you
should find errors, have additions or deletions, send them to me
and I will update the file.
 
Bill Green         bgreen@milo.nodak.edu     bill90@Delphi.Com
 
Date of last update: 4 November 1993
 
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       GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF ARKANSAS
                       5 March 1989
                      Robert McLaren
                    7810 Kincardine Ct.
                 Alexandria, VA 22310-4025
 
The following file contains a listing of genealogical and historical
societies in Arkansas.  Included in the listing, where known, are telephone
numbers and yearly dues.  This listing is donated to the public domain and
may be freely copied.  Under no conditions can this listing be sold or used
in any other commercial fashion.  If you think this list has any value, then
donate that value in helping your local genealogical society (or the National
Genealogical Society).
 
If you write to any of the societies on this list for information, remember
to include a self addressed stamped envelop (SASE).  Many of these societies
work with a limited budget, supplemented by volunteers, and can not afford to
respond unless a SASE is included in your letter.
 
     Arkansas Genealogical Society
     P.O. Box 908
     Hot Springs, AR 71902-0908
       Dues:
 
     Arkansas Historical Association
     History Department
     Ozark Hall, 12
     University of Arkansas
     Fayetteville, AR 72701
       Dues:
 
Arkansas County
 
     Grand Prairie Historical Society
     P.O. Box 122
     Gillett, AR 72055
       Dues:
 
Ashley County
 
     Ashley County Genealogical Society
     P.O. Drawer R
     Crossett, AR 71635
       Dues:  $15.00 per year
 
Baxter County
 
     Baxter County, Arkansas Historical and Genealogical Society
     c/o D. Garvin Carroll
     P.O. Box 309
     Mountain Home, AR 72653
       Dues:
 
Benton County
 
     Northwest Arkansas Genealogical Society
     P.O. Box K
     Rogers, AR 72757
       Dues:  $9.00 per year
 
     Benton County Historical Society
     P.O. Box 1034
     Bentonville, AR 72712
       Dues:  $7.50 per year
 
Calhoun County
 
     Ouachita-Calhoun Genealogical Society
     P.O. Box 2092
     Camden, AR 71701
       Dues:
 
Carroll County
 
     Carroll County Historical Society
     Berryville, AR 72616
       Dues:
 
     Northwest Arkansas Genealogical Society
     P.O. Box K
     Rogers, AR 72757
       Dues:  $9.00 per year
 
Clark County
 
     Clark County Historical Association
     Box 516
     Arkadelphia, AR 71923
       Dues:
 
Clay County
 
     Clay County Genealogy Club
     c/o Piggott Public Library
     361 West Main
     Piggott, AR 72454
       Dues:
 
Cleburne County
 
     Cleburne County Historical Society
     Rt. 2, Box 326 K
     Heber Springs, AR 72543
       Dues:
 
Crawford County
 
     Crawford County Historical Society
     929 East Main Street
     Van Buren, AR 72956
       Dues:
 
Dallas County
 
     Dallas County Arkansas Genealogical and Historical Society
     c/o Dallas County Library
     Fordyce, AR 71742
       Dues:
 
Desha County
 
     Desha County Historical Society
     P.O. Box 432
     McGehee, AR 71654
       Dues:
 
Faulkner County
 
     Faulkner County Historical Society
     Conway, AR 72032
       Dues:
 
Garland County
 
     Melting Pot Genealogical Society
     400 Winans Ave.
     Hot Springs, AR 71901
       Dues:
 
Greene County
 
     Greene County Historical and Genealogical Society
     901 West Kings Highway
     Paragould, AR 72450
     (501) 239-8576
       Dues:  $10.00 per year (single); $12.00 per year (family)
 
Hempstead County
 
     Hempstead County Genealogical Society
     P.O. Box 1158
     Hope, AR 71801
       Dues:
 
Hot Springs County
 
     Hot Springs Historical Society
     P.O. Box 674
     Malvern, AR 72104
       Dues:  $12.00 per year
 
Independence County
 
     Independence County Historical Society
     Box 1412
     Batesville, AR 72501
       Dues:
 
     Batesville Genealogical Society
     P.O. Box 3883
     Batesville, AR 72503-3883
       Dues:  $10.00 per year
 
Izard County
 
     Izard County Historical Society
     c/o Izard County Historian
     P.O. Box 84
     Dolph, AR 72528
       Dues:
 
Jefferson County
 
     Jefferson County Genealogical Society
     P.O. Box 2215
     Pine Bluff, AR 71613
       Dues:
 
Johnson County
 
     Johnson County Historical Society
     P.O. Box 505
     Clarksville, AR 72830
       Dues:
 
Lee County
 
     Tri-County Genealogical Society
     P.O. Box 580
     Marvell, AR 72366
 
It provides information on Lee, Monroe, and Phillips Counties in Eastern
 Arkansas.  They also have some Tennessee & Mississippi information, and are
 very helpful.  If your ancestors passed that way, it's a great resource.
Members (Membership is $10) may submit an unlimited  of queries, by the way.
                                          gblane@UALR.EDU ("Gloria B. Lane")
 
Logan County
 
     Logan County Historical Society
     P.O. Box B
     Paris, AR 72855
       Dues:
 
Madison County
 
     Madison County Genealogical and Historical Society
     P.O. Box 427
     Huntsville, AR 72740
       Dues:
 
     Northwest Arkansas Genealogical Society
     P.O. Box K
     Rogers, AR 72757
       Dues:  $9.00 per year
 
Miller County
 
     Texarkana USA Genealogical Society
     Mrs. Charles Wilson
     Rt. 7, Box 466, BA7
     Texarkana, AR 75501
       Dues:
 
Monroe County
 
     Tri-County Genealogical Society
     Monroe-Phillips-Lee Counties
     P.O. Box 580
     Marvell, AR 72366
       Dues:  $10.00 per year
 
     Monroe County Historical and Cemetery Association
     804 Walker Street
     Clarendon, AR 72029
       Dues:
 
Montgomery County
 
     Montgomery County Historical Society
     P.O. Box 520
     Mount Ida, AR 71957
       Dues:
 
Ouachita County
 
     Ouachita-Calhoun Genealogical Society
     P.O. Box 2092
     Camden, AR 71701
       Dues:
 
Phillips County
 
     Tri-County Genealogical Society
     Monroe-Phillips-Lee Counties
     P.O. Box 580
     Marvell, AR 72366
       Dues:  $10.00 per year
 
Poke County
 
     Poke County Genealogical Society
     P.O. Box 12
     Hatfield, AR 71945
       Dues:
 
Pope County
 
     Pope County Historical Society
     c/o J. B. Lemley, Pres.
     1120 North Detroit
     Russellville, AR 72801
       Dues:
 
Pulaski County
 
     Pulaski County Historical Society
     P.O. Box 653
     Little Rock, AR 72203
       Dues:
 
Saline County
 
     Saline County Historical and Heritage Society
     P.O. Box 221
     Bryant, AR 72022-0221
       Dues:  $10.00 per year
 
Sebastian County
 
     Frontier Researchers Genealogical Society
     P.O. Box 2123
     Fort Smith, AR 72902
       Dues:
 
     Fort Smith Historical Society
     61 South 8th Street
     Fort Smith, AR 72901
       Dues:
 
Stone County
 
     Stone County Genealogical Society
     P.O. Box 557
     Mountain View, AR 72560
       Dues:
 
Union County
 
     Union County Genealogical Society
     Barton Library
     E. 5th and N. Jefferson
     El Dorado, AR 71730
       Dues:
 
Washington County
 
     Washington County Historical Society
     118 East Dickson Street
     Fayetteville, AR 72701
       Dues:
 
     Northwest Arkansas Genealogical Society
     P.O. Box K
     Rogers, AR 72757
       Dues:  $9.00 per year
 
Yell County
 
     Yell County Historical and Genealogical Society
     P.O. Box 356
     108 West 18th
     Russellville, AR 72801
       Dues:
 
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                       VITAL RECORDS
 
          Division of Vital Records
          Arkansas Department of Health
          4815 W. Markham Street
          Little Rock, AR 72201
 
Birth records are supplied only to the individual named or family
member or for family history use.  The purpose for the record must
be stated in the request.
 
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                       STATE ARCHIVES
 
>> From: RP04@NS.CC.LEHIGH.EDU (R M Price)
 
The following are unauthorized transcriptions of brochures describing the
holdings of the Arkansas History Commission and the Genealogy Department of
the Central Arkansas Library System.  The brochures were acquired in late
1990.
 
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOURCE MATERIALS at the ARKANSAS HISTORY
COMMISSION
 
One Capitol Mall
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201
 
One of the oldest existing state agencies, the Arkansas History Commission
was created by the General Assembly in 1905.  Inspired and guided during its
early years by John Hugh Reynolds, the Commission is the official archives of
the state, responsible for collecting and preserving the source materials of
the history of Arkansas.
 
The History Commission is composed of seven members appointed by the Governor
with the approval of the State Senate.  Members serve seven-year terms
staggered so that one expires each January.  Members may be reappointed for
additional terms.  Since 1971 the History Commission has been a part of the
Department of Parks and Tourism.
 
 
UNITED STATES CENSUS
 
Population Schedules
Alabama       1830-80          Nebraska   1860-80
   (Soundex)  1880             Nevada     1870-80
Arizona       1870-80          New Hampshire     1790-1850
Arkansas      1830-80, 1900-10 New Jersey    1830-50
   (Soundex)  1880, 1900-10    New Mexico    1850-80
California    1850-80          New York      1790-1850
Colorado      1870-80          North Carolina 1790-1880
Connecticut   1790-1850           (Soundex)   1880
Delaware      1800-80          Ohio           1820-80
Dist. of Columbia 1800, 1820-80   (Soundex)   1880
Florida       1830-80          Oklahoma Territory
Georgia       1820-80             and state   1890, 1900-10
  (Soundex)   1880                (Soundex)   1900, 1910
Illinois      1820-80          Indian Territory 1900
  (Soundex)   1880                (Soundex)     1900
Indiana       1820-80          Oregon           1850
  (Soundex)   1880             Pennsylvania     1790-1860
Iowa          1840-80          Rhode Island     1790-1850
Kansas        1860-80          South Carolina   1790-1880
Kentucky      1810-80, 1900       (Soundex)     1880
  (Soundex)   1880             Tennessee        1810-80, 1900-10
Louisiana     1810-80, 1900-10    (Soundex)     1880
  (Soundex)   1880             Texas            1850-80, 1900-10
Maine         1790-1850           (Soundex)     1880, 1900-10
Maryland      1790-1880        Utah             1850-60
Massachusetts 1790-1850        Vermont          1790-1850
Michigan      1820-50          Virginia         1790, 1810-80
Minnesota     1850             West Virginia    1870-80
Mississippi   1820-80, 1900-10 Wisconsin        1850
  (Soundex)   1880             United States    1890
Missouri      1830-80, 1900-10    (Fragment only)
  (Soundex)   1880
 
Indexes available for most states -- 1790-1860
 
Special Schedules, Arkansas
Defective Classes -- 1880
Manufactures -- 1850-80
Mortality -- 1850-80, indexed
Productions of Agriculture -- 1850-80
Slave Schedules -- 1850-60
Social Statistics -- 1850-70
 
State Census
Arkansas -- 1823, 1829.  Fragments only.
 
MILITARY RECORDS
Heitman, Historical Register and Directory of the US Army 1789-1903 (book)
Registers of enlistments in the US Army, 1798-1884 (Regular Army)
 
Colonial Soldiers of the South 1732-1774 (book)
Index to US Military Pensions (Old War) 1815-1860 (book)
Returns of US Military Posts and Bases in Arkansas 1800-1916
Records HQ Army of the SW Frontier 1835-1853
 
REVOLUTIONARY WAR (1775-83)
DAR Patriot Index (books)
Index to compiled service records, military and naval personnel
Index to compiled service records, North Carolina
Index to pension applications (book)
 
WAR OF 1812 (1812-15)
Index to compiled service records, all states
Index to pension applications, all states
Military bounty land grants for Arkansas (book)
Military bounty land warrants, 1815-58, Arkansas, Missouri, and Illinois
 
INDIAN WARS (1815-58)
Index to compiled service records, all states
 
MEXICAN WAR (1846-48)
Service records, Arkansas
Compiled service records, Texas
Index to compiled service records, all states
Index to pension applications (book)
 
CIVIL WAR:  Confederate (1861-65)
Confederate service records, Arkansas
Confederate pension applications, Arkansas
Ex-Confederate amnesty papers, Arkansas
Resident records, Arkansas Confederate Home
Consolidated index, Confederate soldiers, all states
Confederate service records, units raised directly by the CSA government
Confederate veterans census, 1911-12, Arkansas
Confederate military history (books)
Registry of CSA soldiers, sailors and citizens who died in Federal
   prisons
CSA casualty lists and battle reports, by state
CSA naval and marine personnel records
Records of Louisiana Confederate soldiers (book)
Tennesseans in the Civil War (books)
Index to Confederate pensions, Oklahoma (book)
Index to Confederate pensions, Texas (book)
Index to Confederate pensios, Tennessee (book)
Confederate Veteran magazine, 1892-1932
 
CIVIL WAR:  Union (1861-65)
Union service records, Arkansas
Arkansas' Damned Yankees (book)
Arkansas Union records (book)
Report of the Adjutant General of Arkansas, 1866 (book)
General index to US military pensions, 1861-1934
Census of Union veterans and widows, 1890 (Kentucky through Wyoming),
   includes some Confederates
Official records, Civil War battles and campaigns (books)
Letters received by Secretary of Navy:  Mississippi squadron, 1861-65
 
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR (1898)
Service records, Arkansas, indexed
Index to pensions, Arkansas
Index to compiled service records, Louisiana
 
FIRST WORLD WAR (1917-18)
Index to army nurses, Arkansas
Index to discharge and death records, Arkansas
Arkansas war service records (book)
 
SECOND WORLD WAR (1941-45)
Fighting Men of Arkansas (book)
 
BLACK HISTORY SOURCES
Records of the Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and
   Abandoned Lands, Arkansas 1865-71
Records of the Superintendent of Education, Freedmen's bureau, Arkansas
   1865-71
Arkansas field office records, Freedmen's Bureau 1864-68
The American Slave (ex-slave narratives) (books)
 
INDIAN RECORDS
 
Letters received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-81:
   Arkansas Superintendency:  1824-34
   Caddo Agency:  1824-32
   Cherokee Agency "West":  1824-50
   Cherokee Emigration:  1828-54
   Osage Agency:  1824-80
Letters received at the Neosho-Quapaw Agency:  1831-47
Census of Creek Indians by Parsons and Abbott:  1832
Census roll, Cherokee Indians east of the Mississippi and index to roll,
   1835
1890 Cherokee national census
Old Settler Cherokee census roll: 1895
Index to payment roll, Old Settler Cherokees:  1896
Starr, Old Cherokee Families (book)
A Compilation of Records from the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory,
   1896 census and others
1896 Choctaw national census
Index and final rolls of citizens and freedmen of the Cherokee, Choctaw,
   and Chickasaw tribes and the Creek and Seminole tribes in Indian
   Territory:  1906, (MSS) 1907
Enrollment cards for the Five Civilized Tribes (in Oklahoma), 1898-1914
(See also 1900 US census of Indian Territory and 1910 US census of
   Oklahoma)
 
NEWSPAPER FILES
Files of about 900 Arkansas newspapers published at some 300 different
   places, 1819 to present
Indexes, Arkansas Gazette, 1819-1890, 1964 to present
 
COUNTY RECORDS
 
Selected records of 75 Arkansas counties, 1797-1920.  Includes marriages
   estates, deeds, county courts.  Inventories and some indexes available.
 
STATE LAND OFFICE RECORDS
These records are organized by legal description or claim number only
   and are not indexed
Lovely County (Ark) land donations
Military bounty land grants, Arkansas, War of 1812
Original land entries, Arkansas
Original entries, swamp lands, Arkansas
Original survey plats (maps), Arkansas
Spanish land claims, Arkansas, 1816-38
 
LEGISLATIVE RECORDS
Includes Acts of Arkansas, Senate and House journals, journals of
 
   constitutional conventions, various special studies and reports,
   1819-present
 
FEDERAL EXTENSION SERVICE RECORDS
Annual Reports of Extension Service Field Representatives, Arkansas,
   1909-44
 
CITY DIRECTORIES
Little Rock, Arkansas 1871-1978
Memphis, Tennessee 1865-1901
New Orleans, Louisiana 1861-66; 1870-71; 1880-81; 1890-91; 1900-01
St Louis, Missouri 1863, 1870-71, 1880, 1890-91, 1900-01
Kansas City, Missouri 1900-01
 
PASSENGER LISTS
Index to New Orleans passenger arrival records, 1853-99
Index to Atlantic and Gulf Coast port arrivals, 1820-74
 
FRENCH LOUISIANA RECORDS
Records from French archives relating to Louisiana, 1694-1806 (in French
 
MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS
Books and pamphlets                 Naturalization records
Cemetary records                    Photographs
Church and religious records        Territorial papers of US Senate
Family histories                         1789-1873
Governors' papers                   Theses and dissertations
Manuscript collections              US postal records, Arkansas
Maps (including Sanborn fire             1832-1971
   insurance maps, Arkansas)
 
Arkansas History Commission
One Capitol Mall
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201
501-682-6900
 
Research Room hours:
Monday through Saturday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Closed state holidays
 
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