YELL County Arkansas Obits ..... and More

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The Site Index on the toolbar above contains links to 13,087 obit texts and 20,044 obit images

This site was last updated on 2/12/2018

Recent Update History:

01/31/1018 : Added YCR Obits for June 30, 2017 thru Jan 31, 2018 (309 obits), and Patron submitted obits (127 obits)

07/05/2017 : Added YCR Obits for Jan 1, 2017 thru June 30, 2017 (280 obits), and Patron submitted obits (32 obits)

01/01/2017 : Added YCR Obits for Jan 1, 2016 thru December 31, 2016 (502 obits), and Patron submitted obits (51 obits)

05/31/2016 : Added YCR Obits for July 2, 2015 thru December 31, 2015 (241 obits), and Patron submitted obits (34 obits)

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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.

We now have a new link at the top of the page. It is a link to Mary's recently printed obits from the Yell County Record. It will be kept updated more often than this site and can be a good source to see which obits were printed in the past few weeks. Check it out.

This site contains collections of obituaries and newspaper clipping and other articles from the weekly YELL COUNTY RECORD newspaper and other newspapers around the state.

We have also provided a name index for the 167 cemeteries listed on the website Cemetery Records of Yell County, Arkansas . There are over 32,500 names listed in this index. Click on "Yell Cty Cemeteries" in the menu bar above to access this index.

Currently our obituary collection contains over 20,000 obituary images and over 13,000 transcriptions of obits and newspaper clipping.

In 2009, we completed a project to put all the obit images from the Danville Library Obituary Collection online. This collection contains 12,761 obit images. Some of these images have been transcripted to text.

In 2010, we started adding the Dardanelle Library Obituary Collection. The Dardanelle Library collection contains obits images from the Dardanelle Post-Dispatch Newspaper and other local papers. We were only able to complete the A, B, C and G letters before we had to suspend our work on the project.

In addition to the obits that we pulled from the YCR and the 2 county libraries, we also have obits which were submitted to us by our patrons. These obits that were published in various newspapers for people with connections to Yell County families. 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.

Genealogy Collections available for online viewing:

The obituaries are available in 2 formats: images and text. Some obituaries can be found in both formats, others are only available in only one of the two formats:

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 different Library Collections and one month per file for the YCR newspaper images collection.
There is a transcribed text version for some of the collection images 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.

Viewing Options: You have 3 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 text or the PDF file containing the obituary image.
or You can browse thru a specific collection’s PDF images. There is a Danville library collection and a Dardanelle Library Collection. These contain only the images that have been scanned and are not all the original images that each library has. For each PDF file there is a file index with the starting and ending name located in that PDF file. Clicking on this name range will take you to that PDF file where you can scroll thru the obituary images.

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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