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This book contains maps of each of Arkansas' 75 counties, done in 1936, and printed in an 11X17 inch format. The maps show a much greater level of detail than current-day county maps produced by the highway department. These maps show the named civil townships (divisions of counties), the survey (numbered)townships, roads and their condition, ferrys, bridges, waterways, latitude and longitude numbers, towns and cities, schools, farms, fire towers, cemeteries, churches, sawmills, mines, factories, businesses, etc. Click on the link above to see a small sample from the Stone County map (just the area around Herpel: that little square with the flag on top is where my Grandpa went to school through the fourth grade, and the little square to the east of it is Uncle Charlie Williams' log cabin where he and Aunt Bert raised 11 children -- I could go on, but you get the idea). This is just a tiny portion of Stone County (my favorite portion).

You can take this book of maps to a copy machine with an enlarging feature and make copies of the specific areas where your folks lived. With information from federal land patents, dontation land records, county deed records, etc., you can write in the residences from range & township survey descriptions. Don't know much about the range & township survey system? See our book on Subdivisions of the Public Lands -- it's an old-time school textbook (from back when schools used to teach this sort of thing) we've reprinted. If you're a closet map-fondler, this book is for you. Order your copy today. Just click on the PayPal button above.

We answer a lot of questions from genealogists about place names. The source we turn to is a massive compilation by the federal government's USGS. Those folks took every possible named feature from all their 7.5 minute topographic maps (that's the really detailed ones), and then added more from all kinds of printed sources and old, original maps. They've come up with more than 30,000 names for Arkansas places: populated places, waterways, civil districts, counties, lakes, ponds, ditches, sloughs, schools, churches, hills, valleys, and every other physical and man-made thing with a name.

We've arranged them all in one alphabetical list, showing name, what it is, latitude and longitude, (and ending lat. and long. if it's something like a river or stream), elevation (if given), county, and the name of the 7.5 min. topo map where it's located. We've added a list of those 7.5 min. topo maps and provided a guide to there whereabouts with maps in the introductory material. This book is the be-all, end-all, dream book of where it's at in Arkansas. You'll want this one.

Shannon Henderson at Arkansas Tech University labored for a life time indexing The Arkansas Gazette. Now Cathy Barnes has taken up where he left off and has produced wonderful indexes for the Gazette for 1895 through 1901. Her indexes are much more than a subject index, however. They list all the Arkansas people and news, and they're indexed by name and subject. There's a tremendous amount of information packed in these pages.

This book contains four volumes which were initially published separately. Vol. I: Obituaries and Biographical Notes from Arkansas Newspapers 1819-1835; Vol. II: Obituaries and Biographical Notes from Arkansas Newspapers 1836-1840; Vol. III: Obituaries and Biographical Notes from Arkansas Newspapers 1841-1845; Vol. IV: Probate and Chancery Notices from Arkansas Newspapers 1819-1845. These were originally published in 1981 as separate volumes but have been combined into one volume for this printing.

Sources: Arkansas Gazette, Batesville News, North Arkansas, Fayetteville Witness, Arkansas State Democrat, Helena Constitutional Journal, Helena Southern Shield, Helena Spy, Arkansas Advocate, Arkansas Banner, Arkansas Star, Arkansas Times, Little Rock Times, Napoleon Journal and Messenger, Van Buren Arkansas Intellingencer, Western Frontier Whig, Arkansas Telegraph.

The material in this volume was transcribed by Dr. Marion Stark Craig from 1814, 1815, and 1816 tax lists for Arkansas County, and 1815 and 1816 for Lawrence County. These two counties were a part of Missouri Territory and covered ALL of what is now the entire state of Arkansas. The taxpayer is listed with tax years and county and notes about spelling variations. An appendix lists county officers. Originally published 1984.

To replace the missing 1820 federal schedules, James Logan Morgan used county records (deeds, jury lists, estray records, JP records, probate and will records and others), tax lists, newspaper items, petitions, and militia commissions to replace the missing census enumeration. Precise sources and statistical summaries for each of the five counties in Arkansas at that time are listed. The list of residents shows full name, county, source citation, and years present (1819, 1820, 1821). Originally published 1984.

We found a lot of folks miss out on this important source because they don't have access to the three-volume set. So we scanned all 3,362 pages and are offering them for sale on a single CD.

Special Offer: Buy Lew's index and the CD and save money. Both the printed index and the CD with the books when ordered together are $39.95. The files on the CD are in Adobe's portable document format (.pdf) and you'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader, a software program installed on most computers or available as a free download from www.Adobe.com . This file format works with Windows and Mac.

From June 18, 1933, through May 24, 1942, Lucy Marion Reaves wrote a column nearly every Sunday in The Arkansas Gazette titled Glimpses of Yesterday. The weekly column featured one or two photos and a genealogical and biographical article about the subjects in the photos. Often the subjects were nineteenth century Arkansas residents or ancestors of Arkansas residents.

Arkansas Families is a compilation of all these wonderful columns. The photos are not included; they weren't reproducible from the microfilm. Some minor editing has been done and annotations have been added. The text is indexed for full names of people, businesses, schools, organizations, and places--over 12,000 index entries in all. You can view a full-name index (personal names only) by clicking on the "View the Index" link above.

When she first began to write the column, Reeves' articles were about some of the more famous Arkansas families, but through the years, they included poor folks as well as rich, unknown as well as known. Though many of the people mentioned lived in Little Rock, others lived in counties all over the state. Sometimes the descendants are Little Rock residents, but the photos and articles are about their grandparents who never lived in Little Rock.