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Records Of The Family History Library
Family History Library Catalog
Archives And Libraries
Biography
Cemeteries
Census
Church Records
Court Records
Directories
Emigration And Immigration
Gazetteers
Genealogy
History
Land And Property
Maps
Military Records
Naturalization And Citizenship
Newspapers
Periodicals
Probate Records
Vital Records
For Further Reading
Comments And Suggestions
BIOGRAPHY The Alaska Historical Library in Juneau has the best collection of biographical materials. You will also find biographical information in the biographical sections of state, region, and county histories. The Family History Library has a few materials, including the following examples:
De Armond, Robert N. The Founding of Juneau. Juneau, Alaska: Gastineau Channel Centennial Association, 1967. (FHL book 979.82/J1 H2d.)
The Alaska-Yukon Gold Book: A Roster of the Progressive Men and Women Who Were the Argonauts of the Klondike Gold Stampede. Seattle: Sourdough Stampede Association, 1930. (FHL book 970 H2so; film 1598025 item 11.)
There is no major statewide collection nor index of cemetery transcriptions for Alaska. Some tombstone inscriptions have been published in periodicals. See the United States Research Outline for suggestions on locating cemeteries and cemetery records.
The Sitka National Cemetery has over 500 graves of military personnel and their families who died in Alaska since 1867. A list of the burials is found in the Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 7, no. 1 (Spring 1975, pp. 17-19; FHL book 977.3 B2is; film 1954962). For more information write to Superintendent, Sitka National Cemetery, P.O. Box 152, Sitka, AK 99835.
Federal census records are found at the Family History Library, the National Archives, and other federal and state archives. The United States Research Outline provides more detailed information about these records.
The Family History Library has the U.S. federal censuses for Alaska for 1900, 1910, and 1920. The 1890 census has been destroyed. Soundex In addition to the federal censuses, the 1870 and 1880 territorial censuses Miscellaneous censuses of parts of the Aleutian Islands have been indexed in Ronald Vern Jackson, Alaska Census Records, 1870-1907 (Bountiful, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems, 1976; FHL book 979.8 X22j).
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CEMETERIES
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CENSUS
(phonetic) indexes are available on microfilm for the 1900 and 1920 censuses.
of Sitka have been published (FHL film 982047). These censuses include information on the entire household.
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