> What do you do for records before 1914? There weren't a lot of birth certificates from pre-1914 because the state didn't require them. However, there's a two-volume publication, the Arkansas Prior Birth Index, which does contain some earlier ones. Seems like someone on the Izard Co. list recently said they had a copy, but I don't remember who it was. You can Google for it and find people who'll do lookups. Dale