Welcome to the Family Tree Farm! Tended by Steve Bemrich Email steve@texsteve.com FTP Now Available! Our Guestbook!" Last thinning- Aug 23, 2009 You are visitor Materials on this site are Copyright 2000-2006 Steve Bemrich except as noted Inclusion without permission in any commercial material is forbidden

And the sons become the fathers And the daughters will be wives As the torch is passed from hand to hand And we struggle through our lives Though the generations wander The lineage survives And all of us From dust to dust We all become forefathers By and by. Dan Fogelberg

UPDATES:

• 8/23/09 Database updated and expanded! At Last! File now has 26,569 people, in 8599 familes and 3840 surnames, spread over 24 generations.

Bypass my Hot-Air Intro

Welcome to the North Central Arkansas Family Tree Farm! Since about 1996 (even I can't remember exactly when!) it has served as a mutual information exchange point for many families who passed through the North Central Arkansas area as the country grew, with a special emphasis on Searcy, Marion, Stone, Van Buren, and Cleburne Counties of that state. We have tried to track our families in, the pioneers from Virginia and Kentucky and the wilds of Wayne County, Tennessee (the TRUE mother of the American West, based on how many came from there!). We tracked them out, as they became Texans, and Oklahomans, and when the Dust Bowl came Californians and other Left Coasters. What started as the simple "Descendants of Peter Reeves" grew larger, as people found point of connection and furnished more and more pieces of the family puzzle. Today, over 26,000 names are grouped in thousands of families and hundreds of surnames.

There are more in here as well. My own family also had roots in Iowa, Illinois, and Ireland, and these have been added here. My mothers family also had Red River Texahomans, who lived along the banks in both Texas and in the Nations. My wife's New Englanders, who don't quite go back to the Pilgrims (but who waited for the first hotels to be built before coming) are in here, with names like Corliss, Stevens, and based on his number of descendants Maj. Simon Willard, the REAL "father of his country". As long as I can tie them to anyone in the tree I haven't rejected any family!

So welcome again. Browse. Study. Remember, the data here is only as good as the people who entered it to me. Don't take anything as stone cold fact unless you have checked it. But DO use this as a springboard to exploring the past of your family even further. And as you find more points to add, DO let me know so I can try to expand our little universe!

We are organized into several areas: The Surname Index, The Photo Gallery, Links, and some Acknowledgments. The Surname Index will lead you to all individual names through the family name. Read through these to find the family page for your ancestor/cousin/black sheep. The gallery will point to some picture of some folks you may know! The links will lead you to more information on many topics of interest, and to other sources of links to data. And acknowledgments are my way of saying "thank you" to at least some of those who have made this site what it is!

Some Links of Interest!

Picking up Chicks at the Family Reunion

Subscribing to Genealogy Mailing Lists

The Mountain Meadows Massacre

Folks Researching in This Area

Some Arkansas County Page Links

Some Additional Genealogy Links

The Arkansas Everetts Brain Trust Page

The Reeves/Baker/Barnett/Grinder Wagon Train

The Reeves Family Bible

Some Information on the Arkansas Peace Societies of 1861

Our Guestbook - Please, tell us how we are doing!

Our Discussion Forum - Ask or Answer!

  

Charlotte Lucas, who has the patience to make contacts and gather information the snail-mail way Cheryl Clampett, who gave me a great many of my first leads Beryl Livingston, who provided the many of the pictures featured here as well as holding many family records  Leeman Pierce, who both extended and broadened my Pierce line Judy Oldziewski and Erma Stevenson who have helped provide some tantalizing possible tie ins and a few hot leads Lafern Reeves Hennessy, who was outline a large part of the Reeves family structure for me. Cleo Gray Melendez who paved the Grays  Wendell Chestnut, who collected much of my extended Bemrich, Gilligan, and Hutter families.  And 1001 people who contributed siblings, children, parents, cousins and sometimes whole lineages to the project. Every one of them is appreciated.

I would like to thank the many others who through their interest have helped fill some of the voids in the picture. We have a researcher list started (at Researchers ) Ifyou want to be included, email your name, address, and the lines you wish to be advertised for. I will not include people without their consent. USUALLY sometime in the next 5-6 months i will get a round tuit!. I have to admit I have been QUITE delinquent in this. If I missed you give me a kick.