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Our Genealogy and Arkansas History department offers opportunities to learn about local history, research your family roots, and hear from Arkansas authors and experts.
Join the Pope County Genealogy Group in welcoming Russell Baker from the Arkansas Genealogical Society. He will be giving is talk The Blue and the Grey: Researching Your Civil War Ancestors.
The Civil War 1861-1865 was one of the most important events in U.S. History. Millions of men served in the armies of the North and of the South. The records of military service and service pensions created during and after this great conflict often contain a goldmine of American genealogical and family history information.
RUSSELL P. BAKER, archivist, lecturer, historian, teacher, and author, is a native of Arkansas. He attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, where he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa and received a B. A. in History in 1967. In 1985 he earned a M. A. degree in Public History by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. In 2009, he retired after nearly 40 years with the Arkansas State Archives in Little Rock, where he was that institution’s Archival Manager. When he retired, he was Arkansas’s senior archivist. Over the years, he has taught history and archival courses at several local colleges and universities, including UALR and Pulaski Technical College.
Mr. Baker will be joining the group virtually via Zoom.