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=== Archives<br>  ===
=== Archives<br>  ===


'''[http://www.ark-ives.com/ Arkansas History Commission]''' (State Archives)<br>One Capitol Mall<br>Little Rock, Arkansas 72201<br>Phone: (501) 682-6900
'''[http://www.ark-ives.com/ Arkansas History Commission]''' (State Archives)<br>One Capitol Mall<br>Little Rock, Arkansas 72201<br>Phone: (501) 682-6900  


Online collections include 1911 Confederate Veterans Questionnaires, Confederate Pension Records, Land Records, and World War I Discharge Records among others.  
Online collections include 1911 Confederate Veterans Questionnaires, Confederate Pension Records, Land Records, and World War I Discharge Records among others.  
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'''[http://www.archives.gov/southwest/ National Archives Southwest Region (Ft. Worth)]'''<br>501 West Felix Street, Building 1 <br>Fort Worth, Texas 76115-3405<br>Phone: (817) 831-5620<br>Fax: (817) 551-2034<br> The National Archives—Southwest Region (Ft. Worth) has records created by federal agencies and courts in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. The archives has microfilms of all available federal census records, many naturalization records, passenger arrival lists, military records, and other historical resources.[[National Archives Southwest Region (Ft. Worth)|Learn more.]]  
'''[http://www.archives.gov/southwest/ National Archives Southwest Region (Ft. Worth)]'''<br>501 West Felix Street, Building 1 <br>Fort Worth, Texas 76115-3405<br>Phone: (817) 831-5620<br>Fax: (817) 551-2034<br> The National Archives—Southwest Region (Ft. Worth) has records created by federal agencies and courts in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. The archives has microfilms of all available federal census records, many naturalization records, passenger arrival lists, military records, and other historical resources.[[National Archives Southwest Region (Ft. Worth)|Learn more.]]  


'''[http://www.southwestarchives.com/ Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives]'''<br>201 Highway 195 S<br>PO Box 134<br>Washington, Arkansas 71862<br>Phone: (870) 983-2633<br>Fax: (870) 983-2636
'''[http://www.southwestarchives.com/ Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives]'''<br>201 Highway 195 S<br>PO Box 134<br>Washington, Arkansas 71862<br>Phone: (870) 983-2633<br>Fax: (870) 983-2636  


=== Libraries  ===
=== Libraries  ===
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'''[http://www.agsgenealogy.org/ Arkansas Genealogical Society]<br>'''P.O. Box 26374 <br>Little Rock, Arkansas 72221  
'''[http://www.agsgenealogy.org/ Arkansas Genealogical Society]<br>'''P.O. Box 26374 <br>Little Rock, Arkansas 72221  
=== Arkansas Digital Collections  ===
{{ARDCleft}}has <u>statewide</u> '''online''' database links which ''may'' include vital records, biographies, cemeteries, censuses, histories, immigration records, land records, maps, military records, naturalizations, newspapers, obituaries, or probate records.
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=== Reference Guides  ===
=== Reference Guides  ===


*Baker, Russell Pierce. ''Guide to Microfilmed County Records at the Arkansas History Commission''. Alexander, Arkansas : Professional Genealogists of Arkansas, 1989. {{FHL| 425192|item|disp=FHL book&nbsp;976.7 A1 no. 140}} {{WorldCat|20031649|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat).}}<br>
*Baker, Russell Pierce. ''Guide to Microfilmed County Records at the Arkansas History Commission''. Alexander, Arkansas&nbsp;: Professional Genealogists of Arkansas, 1989. {{FHL| 425192|item|disp=FHL book&nbsp;976.7 A1 no. 140}} {{WorldCat|20031649|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat).}}<br>


To learn more about the history and record-keeping systems of Arkansas counties, use the inventories of the county archives published by the Historical Records Survey around 1940. Copies of mandy of these inventories can be found in the[https://familysearch.org/#form=catalog Family History Library catalog] with a Place-name search using the name of the county and selecting the topic, "Archives and Archives and libraries - Inventories, registers, catalogs."
To learn more about the history and record-keeping systems of Arkansas counties, use the inventories of the county archives published by the Historical Records Survey around 1940. Copies of mandy of these inventories can be found in the[https://familysearch.org/#form=catalog Family History Library catalog] with a Place-name search using the name of the county and selecting the topic, "Archives and Archives and libraries - Inventories, registers, catalogs."  


=== Web Sites<br>  ===
=== Web Sites<br>  ===
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