Genealogy
The Katie Murdoch Genealogy and History Room is located in the Russellville Headquarters Library
Family Index – location and annotation information from Vertical File and other material available in the library. There are over 340 pages in the index.
To access HeritageQuest Online, you must log into your patron account here, then click on the HeritageQuestOnline link.
For information about requesting genealogy and research information see: Katie Murdoch Genealogy and History Room Research Policy
E-Mail requests to: information@popelibrary.org
New Books for May 2010
Non-Circulating
Colonial Wills of Henrico County, Virginia: Part One, 1677-1737 by Benjamin B. Weisiger III.
Goochland County, Virginia Wills and Deeds:1728-1736 by Benjamin B. Weisiger III.
Goochland County, Virginia Wills and Deeds:1736-1742 by Benjamin B. Weisiger III.
Goochland County, Virginia Wills and Deeds:1742-1749 by Benjamin B. Weisiger III.
Henrico County, Virginia Deeds:1677-1705 by Benjamin B. Weisiger III.
Henrico County, Virginia Deeds:1737-1750 by Benjamin B. Weisiger III.
New Gilead Church: A History of the German Reformed People on Coldwater by Rev. Banks D. Shepherd.
Searching in Indiana: A Reference Guide to Public and Private Records by Mickey Dimon Cartly.
Some Wills from the Burned Counties of Virginia and other Wills not listed in Virgiania Wills and Administrations by William Lindsay Hopkins.
Circulating
The Die Is Cast: Arkansas Goes to War, 1861 ed. by Mark K. Christ.
Morkan’s Quarry: A Novel by Steve Yates.
Some of the Words are Theirs: A Memoir of an Alcoholic Family by George H. Jenson, Jr.
Statesmen, Scoundrels, and Eccentrics: A Gallery of Amazing Arkansans by Tom Dillard.
Types of Records Available in the History and Genealogy Department
Census Records:
Microfilm – Arkansas 1830-1930 on microfilm (every county)
Index Books:
Canada West (Ontario) 1848 and 1850 (one book).
Alabama 1810-1860.
Arkansas 1830-1870.
California 1850-1860.
Connecticut 1790-1800, 1830.
Florida 1830-1850.
Georgia 1790-1870.
Illinois 1810-1850.
Indiana 1820-1850.
Kentucky 1790-1860.
Louisiana 1810-1850.
Maine 1790.
Maryland 1790-1850.
Massachusetts 1870.
Michigan 1710-1830 (in one book).
Mississippi 1810-1870.
Missouri 1820-1850.
New York 1790-1800.
New Hampshire 1790.
North Carolina 1784-1850.
Ohio 1820-1850.
Pennsylvania 1790-1850.
South Carolina 1790-1850.
Rhode Island 1790.
Tennessee 1810-1870.
Texas 1840-1870.
Vermont 1790.
Virginia 1787, 1790-1850.
Newspapers:
Arkansas Gazette – 1819-1842, 1865-1875, 1891-1895, 1936, 1969, 1988-August 1991.
Courier-Democrat – 1875-Present.
Dardanelle Post-Dispatch – 1900-1978.
Johnson County Graphic and Herald-Democrat – 1912-1980.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette– January 1992-Present.
Indian Records:
Cherokee By Blood Volumes 1-9.
1900 Census Cherokee Nation (4 rolls of microfilm).
Selected census, immigration, birth, marriage and probate records.
1880 Cherokee Nation Census Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
Cherokee Guion-Miller Roll 1909.
Cherokee Dawes Roll 1898.
Military Records:
Revolutionary War:
DAR Patriot Index
Index to Revolutionary War Pensions.
Index to Lineage Books of NSDAR.
War of 1812:
1812 Ancestor Index.
Arkansas Military Bounty Land Grants.
Mexican War:
Arkansas’ Mexican War Soldiers.
Civil War:
Index to Arkansas Confederate Soldiers.
Arkansas 1911 Census of CSA Veterans.
Arkansas CSA Veterans Pension Index.
Arkansas’ Damned Yankees: An Index.
Arkansas Union Soldiers’ Pension Index.
Selected Regimental Histories.
Spanish-American War:
Arkansas’ Spanish-American War Soldiers.
County Records:
Pope County Courthouse Records 1830-1922.
Miscellaneous records from 68 other Arkansas counties.
Miscellaneous records from 34 other states.
Selected Holdings:
Gale’s Immigration and Passenger Index.
Swem’s Virginia Index.
DAR Library Catalog.
Index – Arkansas Wills to 1900.
Arkansas Gazette Indexes.
Arkansas Mortality Schedules 1850-1880.
Arkansas Family Historian and other Journals.
Virkus Compendium of American Genealogy.