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Searching for Arkansas birth records, Arkansas census records, Arkansas marriage records, or Arkansas death records? How about a free genealogy search? Find help for your family history search and building your family tree. |
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Arkansas Genealogy Databases
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Arkansas Genealogy Help Vital records, as their name suggests, are connected with central life events: birth, marriage, and death. Maintained by civil authorities, these public records are prime sources of genealogical information. These records are critically important in genealogy research, often supplying details on family members well back into the nineteenth century. There are many sources for birth, death and marriage events that are not in the Arkansas vital records office. Cemeteries, church records, newspapers, military records, immigration and naturalization records, as well as family records in letters and Bibles, are all places where evidence of vital events might be found. Once Arkansas vital records have been researched, and especially if none are available for the location and time period required, a good procedure would be to try to locate your Arkansas ancestors using Arkansas census records. Every state has a division charged with the responsibility of maintaining and dispersing public information from its vital record holdings. Each state page on this website indicates the availability of birth records, marriage records, death records, and divorce records and the agencies responsible for maintaining them. |
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Arkansas Vital Records Information (How to contact the Vital Records Department of Arkansas) Event: Birth Cost of copy: $5.00 Address: Remarks: State office has had records since February 1914 and some original Little Rock and Fort Smith records from 1881. Additional copies of death record, when requested at the same time, are $1.00 each. Check or money order should be made payable to Arkansas Department of Health. Personal checks are accepted. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (501) 661-2336. This will be a recorded message. Event: Death Cost of copy: $4.00 Address: Remarks: State office has had records since February 1914 and some original Little Rock and Fort Smith records from 1881. Additional copies of death record, when requested at the same time, are $1.00 each. Check or money order should be made payable to Arkansas Department of Health. Personal checks are accepted. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (501) 661-2336. This will be a recorded message. Event: Marriage (State) Cost of copy: $5.00 Address: Remarks: Coupons since 1917. Event: Marriage (county) Cost of copy: Varies Address: See remarks Remarks: Full certified copy may be obtained from County Clerk in county where license was issued. Event: Divorce (State) Cost of copy: $5.00 Address: Remarks: Coupons since 1923. Event: Divorce (county) Cost of copy: Varies Address: See remarks Remarks: Full certified copy may be obtained from Circuit or Chancery Clerk in county where divorce was granted. |
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