Alaska Archives and Libraries

United States Alaska  Archives and Libraries

The archives, libraries, and societies listed below have collections or services helpful to genealogical researchers.

Archives

 * Alaska State Archives 141 Willoughby Avenue Juneau, AK 99801 Telephone: 907-465-2270 Fax: 907-465-2465
 * National Archives—Alaska Region (Anchorage) Federal Office Building 654 West Third Avenue, Room 012 Anchorage, AK 99501 Telephone: 907-271-2441 Fax: 907-261-7813
 * Anchorage Museum of History and Art 121 W. 7th Avenue Anchorage, AK 99501 Telephone: 907-343-4326 Fax: 907-343-6149 The museum has an archive section.

Libraries

 * Alaska State Library Alaska Historical Collections State Office Building P.O. Box 110571 Juneau, AK 99811-0571 Telephone: 907-465-2910 Fax: 907-465-2665
 * University of Alaska, Fairbanks Elmer E. Rasmuson Library 310 Tanana Drive Fairbanks, AK 99775-6800 Telephone: 907-474-7224 Fax: 907-474-6841 Mailing address: P.O. Box 756800 Fairbanks, AK 99775-6800

Societies

 * Genealogical Society of Southeastern Alaska P.O. Box 6313 Ketchikan, AK 99901
 * Alaska Historical Society P.O. Box 100299 Anchorage, AK 99510-0299 Telephone: 907-276-1596 Fax: 907-276-1596

Alaska Digital Collections
has statewide online database links which may include vital records, biographies, cemeteries, censuses, histories, immigration records, land records, maps, military records, naturalizations, newspapers, obituaries, or probate records.

Two helpful guides to Alaska records are:


 * Ulibarri, George S. Documenting Alaskan History: Guide to Federal Archives Relating to Alaska. Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press, 1982.


 * University of Washington (Seattle) Library. The Dictionary Catalog of the Pacific Northwest Collection of the University of Washington (Seattle) Libraries. Six Volumes. Boston, Massachusetts: G.K. Hall and Company, 1972.