What is an Ancestor Fair?
[In 1992, following the third annual North Arkansas Ancestor Fair, founder James Johnston expanded his statistical wrapup of the Fair just concluded to explore more deeply what an Ancestor Fair really entails. That it was written for a campground-management publication becomes clear in the text. It’s also clear from this that the basic concept of the Ancestor Fair has remained in place, with only minor evolutionary adjustments, during the past two decades.] On June 6, this year, over one hundred people came from out of state to the small Arkansas Ozark village of St. Joe, looking for information about their ancestors who had lived in north central Arkansas. The third Ancestor Fair held June 6, 1992, in St. Joe, Arkansas registered 336 people, less than 25% were from local Searcy County, 44% were from Arkansas outside Searcy County, and 32% were from nineteen other states. Last year at Easter, in Marshall, the Searcy County seat, the second Ancestor Fair registered 141 people, 27% from
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