Most people today have family members who served in the military, from
the Civil War, through World Wars I and II, to the present. Participants of this workshop will learn
where to begin their research on finding records that pertain to a family
member’s military service. With new
technology and the internet, researching personal records has never been so
easy. However, these venues will not
help if a person does not know where to go to begin the search. This two hour workshop, conducted by Arkansas
History Commission staff, will educate the public on resources available to
research military records.
The
MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History relates the military heritage of
Arkansas and its citizens to a diverse and widespread audience. Located in the
historic Arsenal Building in MacArthur Park – one of Central Arkansas's oldest
surviving structures and the birthplace of one of this country's foremost
military heroes – the museum collects, preserves, and interprets our state's
rich military past from its territorial period to the present.
The
Arkansas History Commission is one of the oldest existing state agencies in
Arkansas. As the official state archives, created by the General Assembly in
1905, the Commission has a wealth of resources on the history of Arkansas from
territorial days to the present. With select military records from every war
from the 18th century to the mid-20th century, more than
4000 manuscript collections, and 3000 newspaper titles from 1819 to the present,
the State Archives has the largest collection of Arkansas history material
anywhere.
For more
information, contact Rachel Miller at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military
History at (501) 376-4602, or by email at rmmiller@littlerock.org . The Arkansas History
Commission can be reached at (501) 682-6900, or by email at state.archives@arkansas.gov.
