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U.S. States - Arkansas Vital Records

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Class Outline: Goal 3

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GOAL 3: Vital Records

Choice A:

“FS: Arkansas Vital Records”

- Scroll down to Birth Records and briefly review each of the time periods: 1880-1893, 1881-1914, and 1914-present.

- In Marriage Records select one of the links in the yellow to show marriage record transcriptions on Rootsweb.

- In Death Records briefly review the “1914-present” paragraph.

- In Substitute Records discuss each of the bullet points at the beginning, for types of non-vital records that can be helpful in researching births, marriages, and deaths.

- In Tips discuss each bullet point for suggestions in working with vital records.

“Access Genealogy” link

- Scroll down to Birth Records. Explain that this article has tips for ordering vital records from the state of Arkansas. Each main section in the article - birth, marriage, death, and divorce - has similar tips.

Choice B:

“FS: How to Find Arkansas Birth Records”

- Scroll through the article to show the basic sections. Explain that it has info for finding records by time period, as well as how to obtain records from state agencies.

“FS: Arkansas Bible Records”

- In Online Resources and Websites, mention the categories for Databases, Transcriptions … and Digital Books as places to find family bibles.

- In Why Search for Family Bibles briefly summarize the paragraph for key points about family bibles.

“LDS Genealogy” link

- Explain that this article has links for county and statewide vital records. In County Specific Birth Records click the “See More” link to show additional county resources.

“Vital Records Practice” link

- Click the link to show a sample research problem to solve with a selected record collection (QUIKLink).

- Click “Hints” to show tips for solving the problem.

- Mention that the “Answers” link has the answers to the research problem.

- Also mention that there are additional Practice Exercises later in this Goal.

Choice C:

“FS: How to Find Arkansas Marriage Records”

- Scroll through the article to show the basic sections. Explain that it has info for finding records by time period, as well as how to obtain records from state agencies.

“Explore links for Arkansas marriage records”

- Click the link to open the “I Dream Of” site.

- Scroll down to Carroll County and click one of the links.

- Review the columns in the table and briefly scroll through the list.

Choice D:

Explain that the first several steps have links to obituary resources. Most of these are for recent obituaries, but some older obits have been transcribed on the Ancestor Hunt site.

“Explore The Ancestor Hunt for obituaries”

- Scroll down to the first list of links and explain that these have good background info for obituaries.

- Scroll down to “Arkansas Obituaries” and select “Arkansas Obituaries - Obit City” - then briefly browse the list.

“FS: How to Find Arkansas Death Records”

- Scroll through the article to show the basic sections. Explain that it has info for finding records by time period, as well as how to obtain records from state agencies.

“Explore Maine Death Records …”

- Click to open the DeathIndexes.com site and scroll down to the “by County” section.

- Open a link to demonstrate a county resource.

Choice E:

“FS: Arkansas Census Records”

- In Population Schedules briefly review the paragraph that begins “Though the United States …”

- In Non-Population Schedules summarize the first paragraph to emphasize the information captured on federal censuses for Arkansas, outside the regular population name list.

- In Online State and Territorial Censuses summarize the first paragraph about state censuses. Then review the table with state census information.

- In Why Use the Census review the bullet list for types of information that can be found in the state census records.