YELL County Arkansas Obits ..... and More
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This site is for genealogists who are researching their ancestors that established
Roots in Yell County, Arkansas or passed thru here on the way to other places.
This site contains collections of obituaries and newspaper clipping and other articles
from the YELL COUNTY RECORD newspaper and other newspapers around the state.
The YELL COUNTY RECORD (YCR) is a weekly newspaper printed each Wednesday
in Danville, Arkansas.
Currently our collection contains over 15,500 obituary images, transcriptions and newspaper clipping. We are
in the process of converting the Danville Library Obituary Collection which should increase our count to
over 17,000 once we are completed. In 2009, we plan to start adding the Dardanelle Library Obituary
Collection. The Dardanelle Library collection contains obits from the Dardanelle Post-Dispatch
Newspaper.
The section titled Obits Submitted by Friends and Patrons contains transcriptions
and images of obits that were published in various
newspapers that represent Yell County families and submitted by you, our Patrons. We are looking
for obits that we do not already have available to us from the Yell County Record. The older the
obits the better since those are the ones that are the hardest to come by. If you are like most
of us, you have a shoebox full of obits that you have been collecting over the years. We would
appreciate getting access to some of these. We will include your name as the contributor of the
obit unless you specify otherwise. If you have some obits that you would like to contribute to us,
please send either the obit text or image to
maryeleek.
Be sure to include the newspaper and date published if you have that information.
We appreciate your help in making this an even better website.
The obituaries are available in 2 formats. Some obituaries can be found in both formats,
others are only available in only one of the two formats:
- There is a transcribed text version for some of the collections where we have been
able to use OCR software to convert them from scanned images to text. These are grouped
about 40 obits per web page.
- There is an image version which is a scanned copy of the actual Obituary from the
paper. These are stored in PDF files containing about 20 images per file
for the Library Collection and one month per file for the YCR
newspaper images used to create the text transcription .
Viewing Options: You have 4 options for how you view these obituaries.
- You can view just the additions which were added the last time new obits were added by clicking
the links highlighted in the Site Update History section below.
- or You can access all of the obits on this site using the Site Index when you are looking for a specific set of names.
The Site Index is in Name sequence and by clicking on the name link, it will take you
directly to the obituary or the PDF file containing the obituary.
- or You can browse thru a specific collection’s web pages. For each page there is a page index
with the starting and ending name located on that page. Clicking on this name range will take
you to that page where you can scroll thru the obituaries.
- or Your can use the SEARCH option on the homepage toolbar to search for obits containing a specific name(s).
YELL County is located in west central Arkansas with Danville as it's county seat.
YELL County was established in 1840 from parts of Scott and Pope counties.
It was named after Archibald Yell, the second Governor of Arkansas
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Date last updated
11/15/2008