Arkansas Probate Records
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Online Resources
- 1783–1998 Arkansas Wills and Probate Records 1783-1998 at Ancestry — index & images ($)
- 1817–1979 Arkansas Probate Records 1817-1979 at FamilySearch; images - How to Use this Collection
- Arkansas, Wills and Probate Records, 1818-1998 at Ancestry ($), index and images, incomplete.
- Arkansas Probate Records, 1817-1879 at FamilySearch; images.
- Full-Text Search - Probate Records at FamilySearch - index & images; dates, records, and places vary; How to Search
Historys
Probate records of Arkansas have been kept by the Chancery courts at the county level. The records include case papers settlements. See Arkansas Court Records for more detail.
Availability
You can obtain copies of the original records by contacting the clerk's office in the appropriate county courthouse.
A statewide index to Arkansas wills is available:
- Stevenson, Mrs. James H. and Mrs. Edward L. Westbrooke. Index to Wills and Administrations of Arkansas from the Earliest to 1900. Jonesboro, Ark.: Vowels Printing Company, 1986. FS Library Book 976.7 P22st, Fiche 6050936.
The FamilySearch Library has microfilm copies of many Arkansas probate records.
- Arkansas Probate Records (information only) by Genealogy Inc.