Talk:Alaska Church Records

This is a very good article on Alaska Native Records. I would just add a little information. I lived on the Kuskoquim River for two years in Akiachak. I established the public and school library combination in the villiage of Akiachak, Akiak, and Tuleksak. These three villages along with many of the natives living in Bethel comprise the heart of the Yupik or in their language Yupiit Eskimo group. In fact they call it the Yupiit Nation. This is the area where the Russian Orthodox Church Mission first came in. There are still Russian Orthodox Churches in each village. When Alaska was getting many churches wanting to establish missions a large meeting was held and they divided up the areas in Alaska and assigned churches their territory to keep from competing with each other. The Moravions were assigned the area of the Kuskoquim River and the Presbetyrians were assigned the North Slope. I spent 7 years on the North Slope and was priveleged as Branch President to get the northern most LDS Church in the world built at that time in Pt. Barrow, Alaska. That occurred in 1992 and 1993. At that time there were six demominations in Barrow. The oldest being the Prebetyrian.