Alaska, United States Genealogy


 * This article is about the northwestern U.S. state. For other uses, see Alaska (disambiguation).

United States > Alaska

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Welcome to Alaska, Land of the Midnight Sun


An index that gives references to over 1,800 members of the Alaska Pioneer Organization is A Guide to the Pathfinder: A Monthly Journal of the Pioneers of Alaska, 1919-1926. Click here for a link to the Alaska State Library where the information is housed.

Featured Content
The National Archives has land-entry case files and a card index to 1908 containing only 56 cash entries and 133 homestead patents for the entire state. Patents, tract books, and township plats are at:

Bureau of Land Management 222 W. 7th Ave. #13 Anchorage AK 99513-7599 Telephone 907-271-5555 Fax 907-272-3430 Internet: http://www.blm.gov/ak/st/en.html

Did You Know?
More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska.

Jurisdictions
Note: The counties in Alaska are named boroughs, rather than the counties.

Research Tools

 * Alaska Trails to the Past
 * Find which county a town is in, what town a cemetery is in, even where a postoffice or building is by using the United States Geographical Survey's Geographical Names Information System.
 * David Rumsey Map Collection is a large online collection of rare, old, antique historical atlases, globes, maps, charts plus other cartographic treasures.
 * The Alaska GenWeb Project has a wealth of information and is a part of the larger USGenWeb Project. The USGenWeb Project provides internet information on every county in every state in the United States.

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