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Statehood: 1836
US territory status: 1819 (part of Louisiana Territory in 1803, then Missouri Territory in 1812)
First federal census:1830, as Arkansas Territory
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Statewide birth and death records begin: 1914
Statewide marriage records begin: 1817
Public-land state
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Counties: five in 1819; 75 today
Contact for vital records:
Arkansas Department of Health
Division of Vital Records,
4815 W. Markham St., Slot 44
Little Rock, AR 72205, (800) 637-9314
healthy.arkansas.gov/programs-services/program/certificates-and-records
Websites
Publications
- Arkansas Historical Quarterly (Arkansas Historical Association, included with annual membership)
- Colonial Arkansas, 1686-1804: A Social and Cultural History by Morris S. Arnold (University of Arkansas Press)
- Confederate Arkansas: The People and Policies of a Frontier State in Wartime by Michael B. Dougan (University of Alabama Press)
- Historical Atlas of Arkansas by Gerald T. Hanson and Carl H. Moneyhon (University of Oklahoma Press)
- The Old South Frontier: Cotton Plantations and the Formation of Arkansas Society, 1819-1861 by Donald P. McNeilly (University of Arkansas Press)
Archives & Organizations
Arkansas Genealogical Society
Box 26374, Little Rock, AR 72221, agsgenealogy.org
Arkansas Historical Association
416 Old Main, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, (479) 575-5884, arkansashistoricalassociation.org
Arkansas State Archives
1 Capitol Mall, Little Rock, AR 72201,
(501) 682-6900, ark-ives.com
Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
401 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock, AR 72201,
(501) 320-5700, butlercenter.org
Fort Smith Public Library
Genealogy Department, 3201 Rogers Ave.,
Fort Smith, AR 72903, (479) 783-0229,fortsmithlibrary.org/genmain.html
National Archives at Fort Worth
1400 John Burgess Dr., Fort Worth, TX 76140,
(817) 551-2051, <archives.gov/fort-worth>
Northwest Arkansas Genealogical Society
405 S. Main St., Bentonville, AR 72712, (479) 271-6820, rootsweb.ancestry.com/~arnwags
Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives
201 Highway 195 South, Box 134, Washington,
AR 71862, (870) 983-2633, archives.arkansas.gov/sara/sara-about-us.aspx
For more Arkansas resources, visit:
State Research Guide: Arkansas
What’s Hot in Arkansas?
From the May/June 2018 issue of Family Tree Magazine.
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