Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska Genealogy

Guide to Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Description
The Borough has Ketchikan as its seat and the Borough was created September 6, 1963. The Borough is located in the southeastern part of the state.

Record Loss
There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this borough.

Neighboring Boroughs, Census Areas, and Regional Districts

 * Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska - east and west
 * City and Borough of Wrangell, Alaska - north
 * Kitimat-Stikine Regional District, British Columbia - east
 * Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District, British Columbia - south (water boundary only, across Dixon Entrance to Hecate Strait)

Populated Places
For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit Hometown Locator. The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in this borough:

Military

 * 1898-1934 - at FamilySearch — index
 * 1940-1945 - at FamilySearch — index and images

Naturalization and Citizenship

 * 1900-1972 - at FamilySearch — index

Family History Centers

 * Ketchikan Alaska Family History Center

Vital Records

 * 1816-1959 at FamilySearch — index and images

Websites

 * Ketchikan Gateway Borough and Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska GenWeb Project.
 * The has some records for Ketchikan, Alaska.
 * Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)