Arkansas Genealogy Society Discussion 10 June, 1995 in the Mid-Southern SIG GFH Wally: Gentlemen, the floor is yours. We are now in PROTOCOL. Go ahead. ArkGenSoc: Arkansas Genealogical Society was organized in 1962 and we are alive and well with 1000+ mem ArkGenSoc: members. Great group. Membership in AGS is $15 per calendar year. This entitles you to ArkGenSoc: four quarterlies and a 50-word query published in The Arkansas Family Historian ArkGenSoc: To join, send $15 (and a note saying you saw it on AOL) to AGS, PO Box 908 ArkGenSoc: Hot Springs, AR 71902. We hope you'll become members! ArkGenSoc: We want to tell you about a file we've prepared for you that can be found in the Genealogica ArkGenSoc: File Library, under General Genealogical Library, Tips and Resources Section ArkGenSoc: The file is Arkansas Resource, and it lists a tremendous amount of books and information ArkGenSoc: about Arkansas. There are sections in the file for each county and general info on maps ArkGenSoc: other societies, courthouses, libraries, etc. Be sure to download it for reference. ArkGenSoc: We want to entertain questions about how to attack an Arkansas problem. To do that ArkGenSoc: we need to know about the area (county if possible) of the state and the time period. ArkGenSoc: It makes a great deal of difference which time period because of the nature of the records ArkGenSoc: available. And problems of a more recent nature are apt to have more records available. ArkGenSoc: Wally, let's take some questions. LindyT: ? GFH Wally: OK, if you have questions, please type a "?" and we'll take them. CMBarker: ? GFH Wally: Lindy, go ahead. KeRob: ? LindyT: Marion and Searcy COs 1830-1900 Franklin Co 1850 ArkGenSoc: What's your question? Want to know what's available? LindyT: Yes and any info sources ArkGenSoc: Lindy, the undisputed expert on Searcy County is James Johnston, 2333 East Oaks Dr. KeRob: Any chance of finding info on the Civil War unit "Co. D, 26th Inf. other than Nat. Archives? BushBar: "?" Dixchas: ? ArkGenSoc: Fayetteville, AR 72703. He publishes a newsletter reaching everyone interested in ArkGenSoc: Searcy County. On Marion County, be sure and see the compilation of early tax records ArkGenSoc: listed in the Arkansas Resource file previously mentioned. Marion is a burned county and Lee VK: ? ArkGenSoc: you're going to need all the help you can get. You've seen the Turnbo volumes? All 9? GFH Tom: BushBar: Go LindyT: Yes I wish there were more Turnbos in other areas:-) ArkGenSoc: KeRob: Re: 26th Infantry - you can check several early Arkansas histories by Hempstead ArkGenSoc: and Herndon that mention the activities of the 26th BushBar: gf d in 1929 in Hope,wrote Hope Star for obit,no answer,state has no DC. Help. ArkGenSoc: BushBar: Bobbie Jones McLane and Allen Syler are publishing a series of Clark County ArkGenSoc: obits and they cover surrounding counties, too. You might write for more info to Bobbie BushBar: ! GFH Tom: Dixchas: Pls ask you question:) ArkGenSoc: McLane, 222 McMahan Dr., Hot Springs, AR 71913 Dixchas: Is there a Confederate Cemetery in Little Rock? Angeldrd: ! ArkGenSoc: Dixchas: Yes! Major CSA cemetery beside the National Cemetery in eastern LR b.6/22/1838 GA d. 11/23/1908 Emet,OK BushBar: Hope in Hempstead,Arkadelphia is Clark GFH Tom: LeeVK: Pls ask you question:) ArkGenSoc: BushBar: Newspapers often reported deaths in surrounding counties - these would be from ArkGenSoc: the Arkadelphia Southern Standard. You might also write the Arkansas History Commission Lee VK: VanBuren Co from 1850 to 1915 - need death records ArkGenSoc: with the exact date and let them search for a newspaper obit. ArkGenSoc: LeeVK: County has no death records. State records start Feb. 1914 but are very spotty ArkGenSoc: until the time of WWII. Van Buren County Historical Society has done a cemetery census GFH Tom: Angeldre: Pls ask you question:) ArkGenSoc: that may answer your question. Or you could search for a probate record. Angeldrd: welll...this is a hard one...I'm trying to get info on my ggf who was murdered in heber MajikMarti: ? ArkGenSoc: Angeldrd: got it - saw it earlier Angeldrd: springs in 1919 or 1920, but he was indian, and I can't seem to find him anywhere Angeldrd: his name was Leeroy Puckett...are there newspaper accounts? CMBarker: ? ArkGenSoc: Ang: start with the 1920 census and find the family (or widow and children). That'll give yo ArkGenSoc: a start on the date. Have you written the Cleburne County Historical Society? They may ArkGenSoc: have published an article on it. PO Box 794, Heber Springs, AR 72541 ArkGenSoc: Also check the circuit court records in the event a trial was held for the guilty party. ArkGenSoc: Since you know the year, you just need to write the courthouse and ask if they'll look for Angeldrd: great...atleast that gives me somewhere else to check...they weren't on the census ArkGenSoc: a murder. There weren't so many back then that they can't check for it. GFH Tom: MajikMarti: Pls ask your question:) MajikMarti: My great uncle supposedly led a raid on Union troops near Hazen, Ark. late in 1863, or 1864. MajikMarti: This resulted in the expulsion of my gggrandmother and family for harboring a fuugitive DavMackey: ? MajikMarti: Where could I look for info concerning this? ArkGenSoc: Maj: Check the 128 volume set called the Official Records Compendium - Vol. 128 is the index ArkGenSoc: to the set. Check for personal names, unit names, commanders, etc. All large reference ArkGenSoc: libraries have this set. MajikMarti: Is this for the entire Civil War--Union Records? BJFaught: ? ArkGenSoc: Maj: the Ark Gazette was out of business for the last of the war - Yankees locked up the ArkGenSoc: presses but there might be an account in another paper if you have an exact date. GFH Tom: DavMackey: Pls ask your question:) ArkGenSoc: Maj: ORC contains records of both Union and Confederate - captured correspondence, etc. MajikMarti: Thanks, but I don't have the date MajikMarti: Ok, thankyou DavMackey: Huntsville Massacre, where could I find some info ArkGenSoc: Dav: say more, when? another title? Mountain Meadows Massacre? DavMackey: It occurred in Jan 1863 DavMackey: Madison Co ArkGenSoc: Dav: you need the ORC, too - prev. mentioned 128 vol set and a county history with info GFH Tom: BJFaught: Pls ask your question:) DavMackey: Is there one for Madison Co BJFaught: Where do I begin, Charles Hendee Leverett died Fayetteville AK 1897 CMBarker: ?#3 ArkGenSoc: Dav: try writing Madison County Historical Society, PO Box 427, Huntsville, AR 72740 ArkGenSoc: BJF: Washington County Historical Society, 118 E Dickson, Fayetteville, AR 72701 and ArkGenSoc: NW Ark Genealogical Soc., PO Box 796, Rogers, AR 72757, have cemetery inscriptions ArkGenSoc: Tom, who's next? GFH Tom: CMBarker: Pls ask your question:) CMBarker: Calvin BARKER, last known Washington Co. AR, 1870 Census...need death date/place GFH Wally: ? ArkGenSoc: CMB: see addresses above - also check county records to see if he's paying taxes and ArkGenSoc: perhaps you can pinpoint the year of death, then begin a search for newspaper obit. ArkGenSoc: Tom, who's next? GFH Tom: GFH Wally: Pls ask your question:) GFH Wally: Where is the central research facility for Arkansas, including where the ORC is located? ArkGenSoc: Wally: Arkansas History Commission, One Capitol Mall, Little Rock, AR 72203, telephone ArkGenSoc: 501/682-6900 is our state archives. ORC has been reprinted and is available in most univ ArkGenSoc: university libraries. The reprint is better than the original - no crumbling paper. GFH Wally: What are the hours at the library? Kathi: ? ArkGenSoc: AHC is open 8-4:30 Monday through Sat, excluding state holidays GFH Tom: Kathi: Pls ask your question:) Kathi: What is ORC? ArkGenSoc: Official Records Compendium, 128 vol. set of correspondence and records about the ArkGenSoc: War Between the States. Vol. #128 is an index to the entire set. Sweetie12: ? GFH Tom: Go Sweetie 12:) ArkGenSoc: ORC covers all the events of the War Between the States, all states. GFH Tom: ! Sweetie12: I am looking for an ancester that was born around 1860. ArkGenSoc: Ancestor's name? Possible place of birth? Sweetie12: State archives only go back until 1881 Sweetie12: William Henry Dolan. Either Ireland or Schenectady, NY ArkGenSoc: Which state archives? Arkansas has records back into colonial period. ArkGenSoc: Sweetie: Contact New York organizations - we're experts on Arkansas here. GFH Wally: ? Scott M 26: O'Hara-O'Hare Minneapolis ArkGenSoc: Tom? GFH Tom: Go Wally: Sweetie12: thought the tracking process might be the same GFH Wally: A man born in Tennessee around 1804 shows up in ARK census records after 1840. GFH Wally: What Civil War records, or other records, might exist to identify his involvement in the war ArkGenSoc: Find him in the 1860 census and note all the men in the neighborhood who'd have been of ArkGenSoc: military age 1861-65. Look all those men up in the National Archives' microfilmed indexes ArkGenSoc: to Confederate soldiers. Don't neglect the Union indexes, too. That way, you'll find him GFH Wally: Thanks !!! Tom? Your turn ArkGenSoc: among a known group of associates and will know it's him. Once found in the indexes, ArkGenSoc: order his compiled service record on microfilm instead of with an NATF-80 form and you ArkGenSoc: can study the records of all the men in his company. GFH Wally: (woops!!! Sorry !!!) ArkGenSoc: Tom? GFH Tom: Ark: Have the ORC's in my library:):) Can ans. E-Mail inquireies:) GFH Wally: Any other questions? ArkGenSoc: We're glad so many folks have participated. Remember to download the Arkansas Resource GFH Tom: A Big thanks to ArkGenSoc for being here tonight!!!!! Yeh Yeh Yeh! ArkGenSoc: file in the Tips and Resources Section of the General Gene. Library area. Thanks for having ArkGenSoc: us tonight. GFH Wally: :::::::::::::::::::APPLAUSE FOR AN EXCELLENT PRESENTATION!!! :::::::::::::::::::