Resources
There are hundreds of genealogy-related websites to help you with
your Alaskan family history development. We hope you find these resource
links useful. If you have additional resources that you have found to be quite
helpful, please share them with us.
- Alaska Department of Health and Social Services,
Division of Public Health
(fka Bureau of Vital Statistics)
Under Alaska law, all Vital Statistics records are treated
with strict confidentiality until they become public records. Births become
public records 100 years after the event; deaths, marriages, and divorces
become public records 50 years after the event.
- Alaska Department of Natural Resources,
Recorder's Office
There are several Recorder's Offices throughout Alaska. They maintain deeds.
A deed is the written legal document transferring ownership of property, not
just land, and it may contain a variety of pieces of genealogical
information such as full names of parents, children, siblings, spouses,
previous residences, etc.
- Alaska Genealogy by AccessGenealogy
- Alaska Genealogy Research at The History Junkie
- Alaska Genealogy Research Guide by Family Tree Magazine
- Alaska Historical Society
- Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Program
(ANCSA)
- U.S. Department of the Interior, Indian Affairs, Alaska Region
- Alaska Native Corporations
The Alaska
Native Claims Settlement Act (1971) divided all of Alaska into
12 Regions of historic native cultural commonality. For each
Region, a “Regional Corporation” was established, including
money and Alaskan land. In turn, each Regional Corporation
identified and established some 200 plus Villages, which in turn
became "Village Corporations" with money and land within the
Region. The Regions also enrolled all Alaska Natives (a 13th
Region included Alaska Natives not living in Alaska).
- Alaska Sources: A Guide to Historical Records and Information Resources by Connie M. Bradburry and David A. Hales,
published in 2001
- Alaska State Archives
- Alaska State Library
- AlaskaWeb
- Ancestor Hunt
- Anchorage Genealogical Society
- BillionGraves
- Canada WorldGenWeb
- Census Taking in Alaska since 1870
- Civilian Conservation Corps - CCC Legacy
and BlogSpot
- Daughters
of the American Revolution
- Dictionary of Alaska Place Names
- Explore North
- Facebook Groups
- Family Group Sheets - Alaska
- FamilySearch.org
- Alien Arrivals at Various Locations, 1906-1956
- Coroner's Inquests
- FamilySearch Centers
- There are many FamilySearch Centers throughout Alaska: Anchorage, Cordova, Dutch Harbor, Fairbanks, Haines, Homer, Juneau, Ketchikan,
Kodiak, Palmer, Petersburg, Seward, Sitka, Soldotna, Whitehorse Yukon, and Wrangell. Each one is open to the public and has
volunteers to show you how their facility can help you with your genealogy research.
- Naturalization Records
- Obituaries from Alaska Weekly and Alaska Sportsman 49-page pdf
- Pioneer Home
- Vital Records
- WWII Draft Registration Cards
- WWII Military Service Records
- FindAGrave
-
Genealogy for Kids: Building a Family Tree
- Hayner Library
- GhostTowns - Alaska
- Halls of Fame
- Historic Map Works
- many maps are available to view online at no charge
- Historical Marker Database
- HonorStates military who died while in service during WWI, WWII, Korean, and Vietnam
- Internet Archive
(find links to some individual books in our
Bibliography)
- Project Gutenberg
(find links to some individual books in our
Bibliography)
- Linkpendium
- Message Boards
- National Archives
- National Register of Historic Places in Alaska
- Newspapers
- Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK)
-
Researching Our Alaska Family Roots
-
Researching Your Family's History from Ships Passenger Lists
-
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
- SaveItForParts
-
SEAlaska Heritage "We perpetuate, enhance and share
Southeast Alaskan Native culture"
- UntraveledRoad
- U.S. Bureau of Land Management provides
information on original public land (Range, Township, Section)
first private ownership. You can search by public land
description, ownership (e.g. homesteader name), or patent or US
Survey numbers.
- US Department of Veterans Affairs National Gravesite Locator
- US Department of the Interior - Indian Affairs -
Tracing Ancestry
- USGS GNIS -
Geographic Names Information System
-
Washington State University Libraries Digital Collections
- Wasilla Knik Historical Society
- Wikipedia - Alaska
- WorldGenWeb Project
- Yukon and Alaska Genealogy Centre
Links to web sites that are not part of the USGenWeb Project are provided
for your convenience and do not imply any endorsement of the web sites or
their contents by the USGenWeb Project.
