Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska Genealogy

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

Church Records
List of Churches and Church Parishes
 * FamilySearch Places

Gazetteers

 * FamilySearch Places: Map of cities and towns in this borough - How to Use FS Places

Maps

 * FamilySearch Places: Map of cities and towns in this borough - How to Use FS Places

Military

 * 1898-1934 at FamilySearch — index - How to Use this Collection
 * 1940-1945 at FamilySearch — index and images - How to Use this Collection

Naturalization and Citizenship

 * 1884-1991 at FamilySearch — index and images - How to Use this Collection
 * 1900-1972 at FamilySearch — index - How to Use this Collection

Newspapers

 * 1800s-1999 U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 at Ancestry - index ($)

FamilySearch Centers

 * Ketchikan Alaska FamilySearch Center
 * Petersburg Alaska FamilySearch Center
 * Sitka Alaska FamilySearch Center
 * Wrangell Alaska FamilySearch Center


 * Bulkley Valley Genealogical Society - an affiliate library

Societies
Historic Ketchikan P. O. Box 23364 Ketchikan, Alaska, 99901 907.225.5515 E-mail: [mailto:info@historicketchikan.org info@historicketchikan.org] Website

Vital Records

 * 1816-1959 at FamilySearch — index and images — How to Use this Collection

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)
 * Genealogy Search CountyOffice.org