Geneaology

Your Family Tree—A Part of History!

For over seventy-five years Arkansas State University Museum has been this region’s principal repository of tangible local heritage. The lion’s share of the Museum’s holdings are donations from families in Northeast Arkansas who felt a sense of kinship with this region’s past and a desire to preserve and share their history with future generations. Thus, ASU Museum came into being by accepting stewardship of vintage wedding gowns and quilts, tools, farm implements, intriguing gadgets, dolls, furniture, family photographs, a covered wagon and a canoe, mother-of-pearl buttons and button-making tools—even a complete dentist office and other shops from the turn of the 19th century! And so much more. Now these items are in good hands, getting the care they need to continue to the next generation. 

But these objects are only part of the heritage story our region has to tell. Each and every member of this community is a living, breathing repository of oral heritage—stories your grandmother and great grandfather told you, stories that will go down in history only if you tell them and pass them onto your children, nieces and nephews, and grandchildren.  Make your place in history: keep telling these stories. You can strengthen these stories by backing them up with your family’s genealogy, that is, by completing your “Family Tree.” Below are some links that will help you trace your roots back to the people with whom your heritage originated, people in your family who deserve to be remembered: your ancestors.

General Genealogical Links  

http://www.campbellot.com/campbell%20genealogy/genelink.htm

Genealogical Search:

http://www.genealogysearch.com/  

Access Genealogy:

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/

Military Genealogy:

http://www.military-genealogy.com/

Arkansas Genealogical Society:

http://agsgenealogy.org/

The Arkansas GenWeb Project:

http://www.argenweb.net/

Arkansas Gazette: Arkansas Oldest Newspaper:

http://www.arkansasties.com/Gazette/NewsIndex.htm

Arkansas History Commission:

http://www.ark-ives.com/

The Craighead County Library Geneaology search:

http://www.libraryinjonesboro.org/?q=taxonomy_vtn/term/2

 ASU Museum Family Heritage Workshop