ALASKA

The Last Frontier
Origin of state's name: Based on an Aleut word "alaxsxaq" literally meaning "object toward which the action of the sea is directed" or more simply "the mainland".


Alaska Genealogy Website is now online again. Links are being refreshed. Please feel free to email me if you have questions concerning this website. Thank you for your patience!!
Sarah Ligon, AkGenWeb State Coordinator


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Welcome To The Great Land
Welcome to AlaskaGenWeb, a part of the USGenWeb Project. The Borough hosts and volunteers trust our pages will prove interesting and useful in your genealogical research. If you have any comments, know of any resources not listed, or would like to host a borough or area on the AKGenWeb, please e-mail
State Coordinator Sarah Ligon

AKGenWeb extends a sincere thank you to our past State Coordinators. Mary Cronin Nichols for her work as the original State Coordinator and Captain Pat Smith for his dedicated efforts to provide useful resources and information.





AKGenWeb Boroughs & City Pages
are currently being revised
A special thank you to our new volunteers for creating and maintaining these sites!
Volunteers are welcome and needed to maintain borough and city webpages
If you have questions, please contact State Coordinator, Sarah Ligon

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Resources:



ALASKA

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Lookups:
Personal lookups are normally provided only to confirm or deny a name's inclusion in a commercially available resource. For details a researcher normally purchases the copyrighted resource from the author or agent. Lookup volunteers often do far more research in locally available public resources. Be sure to thank the volunteers for their committment.

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AlaskaGenWeb Archives

Do you have resources pertaining to Alaska, i.e. records, bibles, old newpapers, etc, or any listing of persons, places, and dates, which would help other genealogists? If you would be willing to lookup information, please contact Sarah Ligon with your holdings. These could also be transcribed for inclusion in the Archives, with permission of course.

Ketchikan
Helen West has graciously volunteered to do lookups in the Ketchikan area cemeteries, library,  and courthouse. Old phone books from 1907 and " Biographies of the Alaskan-Yukon Pioneers
1850-1950",compiled by Ed Ferrell. 

An annotated database, by the Valdez Museum and Historical Archive , updated 1 Apr 1997, now over 2800 names of those who participated in the Gold Rush of 1898-99 by going over Valdez Glacier to the Copper River Area. Resources used included mining location records, 1900 census, diaries, letters, books, newspapers, and many names from Passenger lists on vessels departing, Portland, Seattle, and Port Townsend for Valdez and the Copper River Area. Whenever possible, the person's hometown, place of birth, date of birth are given. 

One man's Diary of the Gold Rush



~ Links to Canadian Genealogy ~

inGeneas ~ Canadian Genealogical Research and Searchable Databases

Genealogy Centre with indexes that I have compiled. The information that these indexes lead to in my 6,000-page database(fully referenced) is available for the asking (ie roadhouse owners index - I will email whatever I have on the roadhouse that is named).





                 
Updated, May 3, 2008

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