Arkansas Heritage is the digital home of the Arkansas State Archives and has online and onsite collections for genealogy and family history research. Online records include searchable death indexes, Civil War and World War I records, slave records, land records, and more. The Archives have two regional archives, the Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives and the Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives, both of which have searchable collections at this site–Indexes, searches, and catalogs.
Arkansas State Archives Birth, Marriage, & Death Records
Arkansas death records index, 1812-2006
Dubisson Funeral Home records, 1925-1985
Arkansas State Archives Residence Records
Maps
Arkansas Department of Education school district maps, 1952-1954
Land Records
Arkansas State Land records, 1822-1986
Arkansas State Archives Military Records
Arkansas soldiers in the Mexican War index cards
Arkansas World War I discharge records
Arkansas State Archives Daily Life Records
African American & Slavery
Arkansas-Missouri slave case records, 1849-1859
Leek Plantation Freedman’s Bureau ledger, 1867
Lowden Plantation records, 1922-1930
Diaries/Journals
Colonel John Brown diaries, 1821-1865
Cynthia Earle Ward diary, 1865
George W. Paschal letterbook, 1838-1939
Charles Hillman Brough: Elaine riot and other events scrapbook, 1919-1920
Hattie Caraway 1938 Senatorial Race scrapbook, 1936-1942
Henry Brockman journal, 1862-1867
H. Lewis Dunn, Various Electrical Companies, scrapbook, 1907-1919
Thomas Jefferson Jobe diary, 1861
T.W. Hardison diaries, 1923-1957
Walter J. Lemke drawings collection
William Leon Russell scrapbook, 1940-1974
Works Progress Administration (WPA) Arkansas scrapbooks, 1933-1943
Government Records
County and local records
State government records
Arkansas and Missouri Union Army muster rolls, 1863-1864
Arkansas Civil Appointment records, 1819-1958
Arkansas General Assembly composite images, 1866-2011
Arkansas Secession Ordinance, 1861 May 6
Arkansas Territory General Assembly records, 1819-1820; 1835
Arkansas Territory official correspondence, 1825-1828
Brooks-Baxter War telegrams, 1874
Civil War Maimed Soldiers lists, 1867
Independence County records, 1825-1852
Medical Board of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederate States Army records, 1862-1865
Military Board of Arkansas records, 1861-1865
Quapaw Treaty, 1824 November 15
Register of Legal Voters, 1867-1868
NEARA
NEARA microfilm collection inventories
SARA
SARA microfilm collection inventories
Libraries, Museums, & Archives
Archival collections
Home Demonstration Clubs of Arkansas, 1933-1966
John Hugh Reynolds materials, 1855-1923
Marion Reed Biddle collection, 1942-1943
Phillips County American Legion minutes, 1919
St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railroad, Texarkana, Arkansas, station ledger, 1880
United States Western District Court of Arkansas records, 1839-1908
Guides and finding aids
Microfilm collection inventories
Exhibits
Arkansas flag competition entries, 1913
Japanese American internment in Arkansas
Tales from the vault: treasures from ASA collections
Newspapers
To see selected Arkansas titles from the State Archives holdings digitally, explore the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America collections
Newspapers in microfilm format are available for viewing at our three facilities and inventories can be searched at:
ASA newspaper microfilm inventory
NEARA newspaper microfilm inventory
SARA newspaper microfilm inventory.
Photographs
Arkansas State Archives images collection, 1830s-current
Ozark Folk Center photograph collection, 1970-2000
Shrader Studio negatives collection, 1932-1979
Thomas Harding photograph collection, 1970s-1983
Schools
Educational resources
Lesson plans supplemental materials
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