Anchorage Borough, Alaska GenWeb Project

ANCHORAGE BOROUGH, ALASKA GENWEB PROJECT

Hello and Welcome! I'm Vikki Gray, your Borough Coordinator for the Anchorage, Alaska borough. This is a brand spanking new site as of August 30, 2006, so any input you may have is invited!

PLACES TO START YOUR SEARCH

	1900 Alaska Telephone Directory		This file requires Adobe Acrobat to open. If you need to download a free version of Adobe Acrobat Reader click the button below.
	1915-16 Alaska Business Directory (Polk's)		These files are in Adobe Acrobat format. They are large - about 5 mb each. Please note that I have added bookmarks to make it easier to find your information. After opening a file, click on "bookmarks" to the left of your file.
.	.		General Index-Abercrombie-Anchorage-Chatham	Chatham-Eureka
.	.		Eureka - Fairbanks	Fairbanks - Jack Wade
.	.		Jack Wade-Juneau-Kanatak	Kantishna-Ketchikan-Nolan
.	.		Nolan - Nome - Richardson	Richardson-Seward-Sitka-Skagway
.	.		Skittock - Tonsina	Tonsina - Valdez - Wrangell - Yukon
	1915-16 Alaska - Yukon Gazetteer and Business Directory (Polk's)		This includes Dawson and Whitehorse, Yukon Territory and other towns such as Discover and Atlin in British Columbia.
.	.		Abstracters - Fish Canners & Packers	Fish Canners & Packers to Machinery Repairs
.	.		Machinery Sawmill - Restaurants	Restaurants - Zinc Etchings
	1923-1924 Alaska - Yukon Gazetteer and Business Directory (Polk's)		Alaska and Anchorage Overview	Anchorage Surnames
.	.		Anchorage to Eyegak	Fairbanks to Juneau
			Juneau to Kern Creek	Ketchikan - Surnames A to Surnames M
.	.		Ketchikan - Surnames M to Nome - Surnames J	Nome Surnames J to Sitka and Sixteen Mile House
.	.		Skagway-Valdez-Wrangell-Alaska Territorial	Alaska - The Yukon to Dawson to Mayo
			Mayo - White Horse - Alaska Yukon Business Directory	Alaska-Yukon Business Directory Fur Buyers to Buyer's Guide
			Buyers' Guide to Classified Business Directory	.
	1964 Earthquake Fatality List		extracted by Coleen Mielke. She has done a marvelous job!
	1968 Anchorage Area Telephone Book		Includes Eagle River, Chugiak, Wasilla, Sutton, Willow, Palmer and Talkeetna.
	Alaska Geographic Names, by Marcus Baker		Prepared by the USGS.
	Alaska Natives of South Central and Upper Cook Inlet, Alaska		extracted by Coleen Mielke. She has done a marvelous job!
	Anchorage Genealogical Society		On April 17 2010 the society will present a seminar with Pat Richley (aka Dear MYRTLE), she is a well known genealogist, author, lecturer. More about the event is on the website.
	Alaska Historical Society		.
	Bibliography		A list of books about the Anchorage area and Alaskan History for further research.
	Borough Recording Offices		For all of Alaska
	Cemeteries		Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery 535 East 9th Avenue Anchorage, Alaska 99501 (907) 343-6814 voice (907) 343-6826 Fax
			Angelus Memorial Park Cemetery, Anchorage 440 E. Klatt Rd., Anchorage, Alaska
			Angelus Surnames A-M	Angelus Surnames N-Z
			If you know of others, or would be willing to transcribe a cemetery for posting on this site, please let me know.
	Census Info		General info on what is available, during various timeframes, in Alaska
	1920-1945 Eklutna Village		extracted by Coleen Mielke. She has done a marvelous job!
	1930 Native Populations in the Alaska Third Judicial District		extracted by Coleen Mielke. She has done a marvelous job!
	1930 U.S. Census Third Judicial District Anchorage, Alaska		extracted by Coleen Mielke. She has done a marvelous job!
	Deeds		Beverly Morrow,Anchorage Recorder 550 West 7th Ave., Suite 1200, Anchorage, AK 99501-3564 (907) 269-8876 (Fax) 269-6006
			Anchorage Recording District covers the following areas: Alexander (Creek) * Alyeska * Anchorage * Barry Arm * Beluga * Birchwood * Bird * Campbell * Chugiak * Eagle River * East Anchorage * Eklutna * Elmendorf Air Force Base * Fort Richardson * Girdwood * Goat Creek * Goose Bay * Granite Mine * Grants (Beluga) * Indian * Indian Island * Indian River * KalgIn Island * Kern * Kustatan * Ladd * Merrill Field * Mountain View * Old Tyonek * Portage * Potter * Rainbow * Rainy Pass * Rainy Pass Lodge * Red Bluff Bay (Aband) * Skwentna * Spenard * Susitna * Turnagain Arm * Tyonek * Whitney * Whittier * Youngstown
	Cities, Towns and Places		Taken from USGS records.
	USGS Bulletin - Geographic Names of Alaska		This file requires Adobe Acrobat to open
	Early Anchorage Residents		Index of many names of early Anchorage and Alaska pioneers (large file 333 kb) plus sources. Bookmarks have been added on the left for easier navigation.
	Fun Stuff		Dogsledding - Mushing Terminology
	GenConnect/Ancestry Boards		These have been improved and combined with the Ancestry Boards. Post/view queries, bible records, biographies, deeds, obits, pensions, and wills here.
	Alaska's Native Population: Sources for Genealogical and Historical Research		by Gretchen L. Lake and David A. Hughes. This is an excellent treatise published in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly.
	Part 1	Part 2
	Mailing List		A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in Alaska. To subscribe send an email with the simple word "subscribe" as the subject to alaska-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or alaska-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode).
	Maps		All kinds of Alaska and Anchorage maps
	Obits and Newspaper Extracts		A collection of Miscellaneous Articles Extracted from Early editions of the Anchorage, Knik and Palmer Newspapers beginning in 1915. extracted by Coleen Mielke.
	Photographs - Page 1		If you have any old photos that relate to the Anchorage area and/or it's people, I will be glad to post them here.
	Queries		Search and Place Queries here,
	Resources		Where the data is and who to contact - Anchorage Borough government, libraries, gen societies and museums, available census records, etc.
	Timeline		An historical timeline of Alaska history to help you in your research.
	Volunteers & Lookups		We need volunteers and helpers! Please read below to see ways that you can help
			Kim Allison Ross has kindly offered to help with lookups. She has access to the Anchorage libraries. Please contact her at slimkim@gci.net Her direct ancestors: Ross, Johnson, Buettner, Schumert, Ruehl, Wiedemann, Dean(e), Hart, Harsch, Spieske, Westerfield, Porter, Fisher, Vernier/Viner/Winer, Barquiaume. The Ross & Johnson Families http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=slimkim

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Anchorage Borough Volunteers
Would you like to help? We need you!

Here are some ideas of ways that you can help:

Do you have any Local History books that you would be willing to use for an occasional lookup request?
Would you be willing to post obituaries from your local Anchorage area newspaper on the GenConnect boards?
Would you be willing to transcribe local cemeteries or photograph local historical buildings?
Do you have any old photos of Anchorage people that we could post here?
Do you visit the local library occasionally? If so, could you do a lookup while you are there?
Do you have access to some other historical records, such as wills, diaries, census returns, etc. that you would be willing to transcribe?
Do you have any old Alaska maps that you could scan in and send in for posting?
Do you have any old Anchorage Borough yearbooks you would be willing to index or do a lookup in?
If you do research in Anchorage Borough or in any Alaska Archives for a fee, let me know. I will post that in the appropriate area also.
Background material - it would be nice to have a few people who live in the Anchorage area to be able to answer a background question from time to time.
Other ideas? Please share them!

If you have problems, please email Vikki Gray , Anchorage Borough Coordinator.

This page was last modified: Sunday, 01-Nov-2009 09:06:12 MST

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