This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AW.2ADE/618.1.2.1 Message Board Post: It is my understanding that death records were not maintained in Arkansas until 1914, and even then rural deaths of natural causes where burial was not handled by an undertaker were probably not recorded unless one of the family reported it. I have a Death Record Index for North Central Arkansas, 1914 - 1923, since that seems to cover most of my family. I purchased the indes from Arkansas Research, PO Box 303, Conway AR 72033.