The information found on these pages has been submitted to the USGenWeb Archives Project. It is offered free to all who visit. The ownership/copyright stays with the submitter. Please read and respect the copyright on all submittals.
NOTE: Thank you to Rootsweb for providing free space, technology, and staff time for TWELVE years to make the Archives and the search engine possible. You may also access the text files directly at: http://files.usgwarchives.org/ar/.

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Picture This!

You're looking for information on someone in an Arkansas county and you go to the county in the USGenWeb Archives and guess what? The county has every bit of info you need ON LINE and you can access it FREE!

All it takes is people like you and me to accomplish this. Wouldn't you like to volunteer to transcribe a record or two? Just a little time each week from a lot of people and within a year or two there's no telling what we could do.

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Guidelines for archivists and file managers - This link takes you OFF this site.

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To Submit Records:

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Most records can be submitted by copying them into an email message
or sending as an attachment to an email message. Please send your file to the
county file manager. Each county has an email address for submissions.
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If you have data already on a webpage,
WE CAN DO THE WORK.
Just send in the URL where the material is located, along with a
description of the material you want in the archives and we'll do the
rest! Your copyright will remain intact.

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Types of Files Needed for the Archives

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Federal Census (free, slave, mortality, agriculture, veterans... schedules)
State Census
Vital Records

1. Marriage
2. Birth
3. Death
4. Divorce (or under court?)

Court records (county, federal, civil, circuit, probate....)
Church records (members lists, baptisms...)
Bible Records
Newspapers (obits, marriage & birth announcements, local events...)
Prison Records (got some proven moonshiners in my tree - the rest is just rumor)
Military Records (rosters, muster rolls, service records, pension applications...)

1. Revolutionary
2. Civil War
3. Indian Wars
4. Mexican
5. Spanish-American
6. War of 1812
7. WWI
8. WWII
9. Korean
10. Viet Nam
11. Persian Gulf

Land Records (deeds, land transfers, federal land grants, surveyor's records...)
Tax Records (land, property, state, federal, local....)
Local Histories
Local Directories (phone books, old county and city directories....)
Occupational (?) (Mining inspector's reports, Accident reports, railroad reports, company newsletters....)
Educational (?) (school histories, newsletters, school census, yearbooks?)
Cemeteries
Deeds/grants
Misc. genealogical records (Ask me if they're acceptable... I'll probably say yes!!)
Newspapers/obituaries
Ship Lists
Tax lists
Wills
Family Histories (just no gedcoms!)
Genealogically related books or indexes - just be sure they're either your own or have the copyright expired (printed before 1923).

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Guidelines for File Submissions

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1. Only virus-checked files will be accepted.

2. Ascii text (.txt) files are preferred. Non-text will be converted to text before storing. If you have created a .doc, .wri, .xls, .dbf, etc. file, you may submit it for reformatting. Hard "tabs" are not encouraged, as they do not translate the same on all browsers. Please use "5 spaces" in place of tabs. Large files may be split. We may, at our discretion, store the same data in several formats. Scanned documents will be considered, depending on their content.

3. All data is free to the public, and the USGenWeb Archives project will not pay royalties on any submissions.

4. Data is provided for downloading "as is" -- no guarantees of anything

5. File contributors must use their own discretion regarding the inclusion of data on living people. If it is not public domain information, however, please do not submit it. For example, a family tree with living people should have all living persons edited out.

6. We will not accept gedcoms due to space considerations.

7. No executable files will be accepted.

8. Do not send copyrighted material, unless it is your own, and you include a statement of permission to use in the document.
Note: Public domain records cannot be copyrighted.

9. We cannot guarantee permanency, in the event data is lost.

10. Any obviously false, malicious, libelous, or copyrighted data will be erased. We do not guarantee the validity of any files. Always check the original document.

11. These guidelines are subject to change.

12. Once submitted, the data can't be retracted by submitter. (This rule causes concern to many potential submitters. The reason for this rule is that the volunteer file managers spend many hours preparing the files in the proper format for viewing by all types of computers. We have to discourage submissions - retractions - submissions - retractions because of the volume of data that is submitted. The USGenWeb Archives are accessible FREE and will remain FREE, to researchers. The files within will not be used for any commercial purposes by the USGenWeb Project.)

13. We retain the right to refuse any submission.

14. Files in the USGenWeb Archives may not be copied for selling in any format.

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Become an Archivist

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Being responsible for a county in the AR Archives is an important job and we do need volunteers. There are very few rules but they are important ones.
 

1. The Tables of Contents (TOCs) must be UPDATED on a regular basis. Regular means every time a new file is uploaded or at least once a month. Most TOCs are already set up with the required components. ASK before you remove anything.
2. The files must be MANAGED according to the USGenWeb Guidelines. Files may NOT be removed from the Archives without the permission of the State File Manager. Remember that every change made affects more pages than just the TOC.
3. You must have the TIME to tend to these responsibilities.
4. You cannot "give away" a county. If you resign your position, the responsibility for the county returns to the State File Manager.
5. You must be SUBSCRIBED to the ARGWARCH mailing list for the duration of your position.

If you are interested in becoming an Archivist, contact .