Arkansas Genealogy & Family Trees

Learn when births, deaths, and marriages were recorded in Arkansas, and how to obtain Arkansas birth, death, marriage, divorce, and adoption records. Includes links to Arkansas birth certificate, marriage certificate, and death certificate applications.

Find links to free online census records for Arkansas from Mark E. Reed

Well-maintained list of locality-specific resources, includes links to Arkansas genealogy records, mailing lists, organizations, and archives - organized by county.

The largest genealogical organization in the state of Arkansas offers free membership, a mailing list, and genealogy classes.

Society Hill offers a good listing of genealogical and historical societies in Arkansas with phone numbers, addresses, and Web sites (when available).

Learn how to research your Arkansas ancestors with this free compilation of Arkansas genealogy research strategies and resources. From FamilySearch.org.

State resources on this huge volunteer Web site include census, vital records, queries, surname listings, publications, associations and libraries, lookup volunteers, and more!

Listing of Arkansas research books for sale, an excellent introduction to genealogy, and information about county creation dates, parent and progeny counties, and boundary changes.

Part of the worldwide Books We Own project, this Arkansas page contains listing of genealogy and history books with volunteers willing to do lookups.

Family History Centers, outreaches of the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City,  are located throughout the world to help individuals search the records of their ancestors.

A free message board devoted to Arkansas queries.

John Fuller and Christine Gaunt maintain a wonderful list of genealogy mailing lists for Arkansas and its counties, plus information on how to subscribe to each.

Online census data transcribed by hard-working volunteers of this USGenWeb project. Some years and counties are not yet available.  Consider signing up to help!

A registry, by state and county of transcribed cemeteries and of individuals and groups who plan to record cemetery data for the state of Arkansas - a special project of USGenWeb.

A guide to obtaining copies of Arkansas vital records, such as birth & death certificates, marriage licenses & divorce decrees.