Central Arkansas Genealogical & Historical Society

Open Research Night and New Research Equipment
Thursday, March 14, 2012,
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.,
2nd floor of the Arkansas Studies Institute,
100 Rock St., Little Rock.


Join us in the opportunity to actually knock down a brick wall or two...in your genealogy research, that is.

Some of the CAGHS members have decades of experience with the Arkansas Studies Institute's wonderful genealogical sources, and those attending may find just the person there who knows what resource they might try to see if their hard-to-find ancestor will come out from behind the brick walls in their family research.

Those new to genealogy - or someone who isn't yet familiar with ASI resources - will appreciate the opportunity to ask "Where should I start?" or "What should I do next?"

There will be a short training session on the new digital microfilm scanners in the research room.

Graves Discovery and New Research Equipment
Thursday, February 14, 2012,
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.,
2nd floor of the Arkansas Studies Institute,
100 Rock St., Little Rock.

The program will begin with a report from Oakland & Fraternal Historic Cemetery Park., where a large section of graves have been discovered. The methods of documenting these burials with headstones, cemetery records and newspaper obituaries will be outlined.

Later, we will provide training on new digital microfilm scanners available in the Arkansas Studies Institute. Training on the overhead document scanner also will be provided to anyone interested.

There will be time after the program for research, so come and bring a friend!

AHPP-Cemetery Preservation

The AHPP will be holding its Cemetery Information Resource Fair, November 17, at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 310 W. 17th Street, Little Rock from noon to 4. Presentations and information on preservation of historic cemeteries will be available at this free fair.
Call Holly Hope at 501 324-9148 with questions.

CAGHS-November Meeting

Central Arkansas Genealogical & Historical Society
November 8, 2012 - 6pm-10pm
Butler Center for Arkansas Studies

Located on the second floor of the Arkansas Studies Institute (ASI), at 401 President Clinton Ave. in Little Rock's River Market District, please use the Clinton Ave. Entrance


                    “Come Join in Our Genealogy Fun Night!”

Each person will be given an a page from the 1940 Arkansas census, pick one family from that page to research in one hour. You will then have the opportunity to present what you have found and the sources you used.

Have fun; sharpen your research skills using the extensive Butler Center genealogical resources.

Remember you will be on your own, one person, one family. When we give you the census page, you must decide at that time which family you are going to research.

 This will be the first of our quarterly Genealogy Fun Nights.

 Each quarter the  “game” will be different.

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Central Arkansas Genealogical & Historical Society-September

Central Arkansas Genealogical and Historical Society

September 13, 2012 6:00pm-8:00pm

Join us at the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies

Located on the second floor of the Arkansas Studies Institute (ASI), at 401 President Clinton Ave in Little Rocks River Market District, please use the Clinton Ave, Entrance.

The program for September will be a video presentation by Tim Bingaman.

 

        “Descendancy Research-Finding the Past in the Present”     

 

This video demonstrates the importance of researching the whole family, not just your direct line.  You could discover the missing pieces to your family puzzle. I appreciate Mr. Bingaman granting us permission to use the video at our meeting.

Don’t forget out Library Lock-In on October 5^th.  It is open to members and non-members! We will have a sign up sheet at the September meeting.

CAGHS-LIBRARY LOCK IN

Central Arkansas Genealogical & Historical Society, Inc

Friday, October 5, 2012 - 6pm-10pm

Butler Center for Arkansas Studies

Located on the second floor of the Arkansas Studies Institute (ASI), at 401 President Clinton Ave. in Little Rock's River Market District, please use the Clinton Ave. Entrance

                      

                                           Library Lock In

Friday, October 5^th, 2012

Pack up your research materials and head downtown to the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies for an evening of undisturbed research from 6:00pm until 10:00pm. The doors will be locked at 6pm so be sure you are at the Butler Center before then.

The library computers have free access to Ancestry Library Edition, Heritage Quest and Fold3. You can bring your laptop and use the library’s WiFi.

Ancestry is only available on the library computers, but you can access Heritage Quest and Fold3 with your library card. The Butler Center also has a wonderful genealogical book collection, Arkansas county records and Revolutionary War Pensions on microfilm. They have recently become a Family History Library Affiliate, so you can use the Family History Library Catalog to order film and have it sent to the Butler Center for your use.

 There will be volunteers there to give hands on help if needed.

Visit our website caghs.net for information about our organization and membership app

Arkansas Confederate Pension Records

Our Partner Project with FamilySearch is up and running. We are indexing Arkansas Confederate Pensions. If you would like to help with this project, register for a free FamilySearch account, then send me your username only. I will add you to the group. Send to jhdavenport39@gmail.com. Very first batch I indexed had a Davenport in it, in a county where I would not have expected him to be! Great records......