Anchorage Municipality, Alaska Genealogy

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

Description
The Anchorage Borough was named for the anchorage at the mouth of Ship Creek. The Anchorage Borough Government Body is Anchorage Assembly and the Anchorage Borough was created January 1, 1964. The Anchorage Borough is located in the southern part of the state.

Historical Facts
The Municipality of Anchorage is a consolidated city-borough with unified home rule. It is the northernmost city in the United States with more than 100,000 residents and the largest community in North America north of the 60th parallel.

Boundary Changes
15 September 1975: Merged with the City of Anchorage along with cities of Girdwood and Glen Alps to form Muncipality of Anchorage as the result of an election.

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

Neighboring Boroughs and Census Areas

 * Kenai Peninsula Borough
 * Matanuska-Susitna Borough

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 municipality:

Directories
Alaska Online Historical Directories - identifies historical city, county, business and other directories available online on both free and pay-to-access websites. Includes Anchorage directories.

Military

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

Naturalization and Citizenship

 * 1900-1972 - at FamilySearch — index

Newspapers

 * Alaska Online Historical Newspapers - identifies historical archived and digitized newspapers available online on both free and pay-to-access websites. Includes Anchorage newspapers.
 * Anchorage Dispatch News - full-text issues in Google News Archive; covers 1891-1989

Family History Centers

 * Anchorage Alaska Family History Center
 * Anchorage, Alaska

Vital Records

 * 1816-1959 at FamilySearch — index and images

Websites

 * Anchorage Borough Trails to the Past
 * Linkpendium
 * USGenWeb Archives
 * Anchorage Borough, Alaska GenWeb Project.