The Katie Murdoch Genealogy and History Room is located in the Russellville Headquarters Library
The Katie
Murdoch Genealogy and History Room currently has an exhibit:
Finding Community. This is a companion display to Arkansas
Tech Museum's exhibit, Sense of Place: Reconstructing Community
Through Oral History and Archeology. The exhibit is
accessible during normal library hours. 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
September!
Non-Circulating
Abstracts of Currituck Co., NC, Deed
Books 3-4: Volume Two b y John A. Brayton.
The Colonial Churches of St. Thomas’
Parish, Orange County, VA: With Notes on Sites i8n Orange,
Green, and Madison Counties by Lizabeth Ward Papageorgiou.
Deaths Reported in the Arkansas Gazette,
1912 compiled by Desmond Walls Allen.
Deaths Reported in the Arkansas Gazette,
1913 compiled by Desmond Walls Allen.
Dekalb County, Alabama Marriage Index
1836-1916 compiled by Dorothy Smith Duff.
Early Adventurers in the Town of
Evansham, The County Seat of Wythe County, Virginia, 1790-1839
(Volume IV in the Early Adventurers Series) by Mary B.
Kegley
Early Adventurers on the Western
Waters, Volume V: The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days,
1745-1820 by Mary B. Kegley.
Family Maps of Blount County, Alabama
by Gregory Boyd.
Family Maps of Carter County, Missouri
by Gregory Boyd.
Family Maps of Dade County, Missouri
by Gregory Boyd.
Family Maps of Douglas County, Missouri
by Gregory Boyd.
Family Maps of Franklin County, Arkansas
by Gregory Boyd.
Family Maps of Hinds County,
Mississippi by Gregory Boyd.
Family Maps of Holmes County,
Mississippi by Gregory Boyd.
Family Maps of Newton County, Missouri
by Gregory Boyd.
Family Maps of Yazoo County, Mississippi
by Gregory Boyd.
Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and
New Hampshire by Noyes, Libby and Davis.
The Grim Reaper’s Footsteps Across the
Nation As Mentioned in The Clay County (Arkansas) Courier
Newspaper 1893-1925 compiled by Cathy Barnes.
Deaths Reported in the Arkansas Gazette,
1912 compiled by Desmond Walls Allen.
Heads of Families at the Second Census
of the United States Taken in the Year 1800: Vermont.
Index of Death Notices Appearing in the
Arkansas Gazette 1914 compiled by Oscar G. Russell.
Index of Death Notices Appearing in the
Arkansas Gazette 1915 compiled by Oscar G. Russell.
Index of Death Notices Appearing in the
Arkansas Gazette 1916 compiled by Oscar G. Russell.
Index of Death Notices Appearing in the
Arkansas Gazette 1917 compiled by Oscar G. Russell.
Index of Death Notices Appearing in the
Arkansas Gazette 1918 compiled by Oscar G. Russell.
Obituaries of Conway County, Volume II:
1890-2002 extracted by Paula Gordon Stobaugh and Linda
Redditt Francis.
Proprietary Records of South Carolina,
Volume One: Abstracts of the Records of the Secretary of the
Province, 1675-1695 by Bates and Leland.
Proprietary Records of South Carolina,
Volume Two: Abstracts of the Records of the Register if the
Province, 1675-1696 by Bates and Leland.
Proprietary Records of South Carolina,
Volume Three: Abstracts of the Records of the Surveyor General
of the Province, Charles Towne 1678-1698 by Bates and
Leland.
Selected Final Pension Payment Vouchers
1818-1864, Volume I &2: Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Pittsburgh
by Kathryn McPherson Gunning.
Spartanburg District, S.C. Deed
Abstracts: Books A-T (1785-1827) by Albert Bruce Pruitt.
Spartanburg District, S.C. Deed
Abstracts: Books U-W (1827-1839) by Larry Vehorn.
Spartanburg District, S.C. Deed
Abstracts: Books X-Z (1839-1848) by Larry Vehorn.
Texas Land Survey Maps for Bell County:
With Roads, Railways, Waterways, Towns, Cemeteries and
Cross-referenced Data from the Texas General Land Office &
Railroad Commission by Gregory Boyd.
Texas Land Survey Maps for Caldwell
County: With Roads, Railways, Waterways, Towns, Cemeteries and
Cross-referenced Data from the Texas General Land Office &
Railroad Commission by Gregory Boyd.
Texas Land Survey Maps for Cooke County:
With Roads, Railways, Waterways, Towns, Cemeteries and
Cross-referenced Data from the Texas General Land Office &
Railroad Commission by Gregory Boyd.
Texas Land Survey Maps for Denton
County: With Roads, Railways, Waterways, Towns, Cemeteries and
Cross-referenced Data from the Texas General Land Office &
Railroad Commission by Gregory Boyd.
Texas Land Survey Maps for Hall County:
With Roads, Railways, Waterways, Towns, Cemeteries and
Cross-referenced Data from the Texas General Land Office &
Railroad Commission by Gregory Boyd.
Texas Land Survey Maps for Lavaca
County: With Roads, Railways, Waterways, Towns, Cemeteries and
Cross-referenced Data from the Texas General Land Office &
Railroad Commission by Gregory Boyd.
Texas Land Survey Maps for Rusk County:
With Roads, Railways, Waterways, Towns, Cemeteries and
Cross-referenced Data from the Texas General Land Office &
Railroad Commission by Gregory Boyd.
Texas Land Survey Maps for Taylor
County: With Roads, Railways, Waterways, Towns, Cemeteries and
Cross-referenced Data from the Texas General Land Office &
Railroad Commission by Gregory Boyd.
Circulating
Cry Wolf: A Political Fable
by Paul Lake.
D.
O. C. Department of Corrections
by Steve Whisnant.
James B. Lile: The Arkansas Knifesmith:
Knifemaker to the World.
Marching With The First Nebraska: A
Civil War Diary by August Scherneckau.
Natural Numbers: An Arkansas Number Book
by Michael Shoulders, illus. by Rick Anderson.
Once Upon Dickson: An Illustrated
History, 1868-2000 by Anthony J. Wappel with Ethel C.
Simpson.
(DVD) Rivers of North America: The
Arkansas River.
New Books for
August!
Non-Circulating
*Colonial Records of North Carolina, Volume
8 edited by William L. Saunders.
A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate
Records: Hartford District 1635-1750: 3 Volumes by Charles
William Manwaring.
Professional Genealogy: A Manual For
Researchers Writers Editors Lecturers and Librarians by
Elizabeth Shown Mills
*Proprietors’ Records of the Town of
Waterbury Connecticut, 1677-1761, edited by Katharine A.
Prichard.
*The Seed of Sally Good’n: A Black Family
of Arkansas 1833-1953 by Ruth Polk Patterson.
Wayne County Tennessee Family Bible
Records by the Wayne County Historical Society.
Circulating
Down by the Riverside by Jackie
Lynn.
Early Education in the Arkansas Delta
by D. Antonio Cantu.
A Gathering of Diamonds by Eric
Wilder.
Jacobs Ladder by Jackie Lynn.
A Journey Through Arkansas Historic
U.S. Highway 67 by Ray Hanley.
On the Laps of Gods by Robert
Whitaker.
White River by Danny Hicks.
New Books for
May!
Reference Books
Annals and Antiquities of the Counties
and County Families of Wales, 2 vols. byThomas Nicholas.
Bibliographic Checklist of African
American Newspapers by Barbara K. Henritze
In Full Force and Virtue: North
Carolina Emancipation Records, 1713-1860 by William L. Byrd,
III.
Second Stages in Researching Welsh
Ancestry edited by John & Sheila Rowlands.
Selected Final Pension Payment
Vouchers, 1818-1864: District of Columbia by Alycon Trubey
Pierce.
Selected Final Pension Payment
Vouchers, 1818-1864: Maryland: Baltimore by Alycon Trubey
Pierce.
The Surnames of Wales by John &
Sheila Rowlands
Welsh Family History: A Guide to
Research, 2nd ed. by John & Sheila Rowlands
Circulating
An Epitaph for Little Rock: A Fiftieth
Anniversary Retrospective on the Central High Crisis ed. by
John A. Kirk
Farther Along by Donald Harington
Golf My Own Damn Way by John Daly
Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later
(DVD)
New Books for April
Reference
Books
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to
America before 1700, 8th ed.
by
Frederick Lewis Weis.
Family
Maps of Polk County, Arkansas
by
Gregory Boyd.
Family
Maps of Benton County, Missouri
by Gregory Boyd.
Family
Maps of Ozark County, Missouri
by Gregory Boyd.
Genealogical Notes of New York and New England Families
compiled by S. V. Talcott.
A
Guide to Copies and Abstracts of Irish Wills
ed. by Rev. Wallace Clare.
Guide
to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861-1865
by James E. McGhee.
Things
Grew Beautifully Worse: The Wartime Experiences of Captain John
O’Brien, 30th Arkansas Infantry, C.S.A.
ed. by Brian K. Robertson.
Transcription of Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Records, Volume
1: Wills and Deeds, Book D 1656-1666
by John A. Brayton.
Virginia County Records: Volumes VI,
VII, and X by William Armstrong Crozier.
With
All Deliberate Speed: Implementing Brown v. the Board of
Education
ed. by Brian J. Daugherity and Charles C. Bolton.
Circulating Books
“All Cut to Pieces and Gone to Hell”: The Civil War, Race
Relations and the Battle of Poison Spring ed. by Mark K. Christ.
Arkansas Lawn Guide by Steve Dobbs.
Bandits, Bears, and Backaches: A Collection of Short Stories
Based on Arkansas History by Velma B. Branscum Woody.
Deep Down in the Delta: folktales and poems by Greg Alan
Brownderville.
“A
Rough Introduction to This Sunny Land”: The Civil War Diary of
Private Henry A. Strong, Co. K, Twelth Kansas Infantry ed.
by Tom Wing.
Things Grew Beautifully Worse: The Wartime Experiences of
Captain John O’Brien, 30th Arkansas Infantry, C.S.A.
ed. by Brian K. Robertson.
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-April 2005.
Dardanelle Post-Dispatch – 1900-1978.
Johnson County Graphic and Herald-Democrat – 1912-1980.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette– January 1992-March 2005.
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.
|
