Ancestry.com puts free data on line for "10" days. Today they have released an update to the Arkansas Marriage data Base: The update includes Hempstead County Marriages. Taken from: "Hempstead County, Arkansas Marriage Register, 1851-1899" County Court Records located at Hope, Arkansas or Family History Library microfilm # 1005876-1005881. To view this: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4383.htm >>ARKANSAS MARRIAGES, 1863-1900 (Update) Becoming the twenty-fifth state in 1836, Arkansas was home to hundreds of thousands of residents throughout the nineteenth century. This database is a collection of marriage records from Hempstead, Pike, and Washington Counties between 1851 and 1900. Taken from microfilm copies of original county documents, each record provides spouses' names, marriage date, and county of residence. This update adds the records from Hempstead County. It contains the names of over 33,000 men and women. For those persons seeking ancestors from early Arkansas, this collection can be a useful source of information. Source Information: Dodd, Jordan. "Arkansas Marriages, 1863-1900." Orem, UT: Liahona Research, 2000. Taken from: "Hempstead County, Arkansas Marriage Register, 1851-1899" County Court Records located at Hope, Arkansas or Family History Library microfilm # 1005876-1005881. To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4383.htm