alaska sources: a guide to historical records and information resources
An extensive guide to researching in Alaska. Family researchers will find this book invaluable in the search for lost ancestors. Historians will benefit from the vast information on individuals, including natives, gold prospectors, military personnel, transients, settlers and other residents. The books first section presents a comprehensive review of reference materials and collections, telling where to find Alaska Native sources, Alaska village and native organizations, archives, museums and historical societies. Alaska Sources is rich with reference to atlases, maps, and a bibliography of published historical sources, such as dictionaries, place name literature, bibliographies, histories of places, mining and the Alaska Highway. Section two discusses records and directories, with categories for cemeteries, obituaries and mortuary records from every district of Alaska. It also identifies census records, including all federal and local censuses taken in Alaska. Alaska Sources lists church archives and record repositories by denomination, including Russian Orthodox, Roman Catholic and several Protestant groups from the earliest days of Alaskas history. It reviews city and telephone directories, along with an informative look at Alaskas court and administrative system, detailing the records found there today. Additionally, the text identifies state and federal land records and assesses Alaskas military records, followed by schools, orphanages, hospitals and statewide vital records.
by Connie Malcolm Bradbury and David Albert Hales
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atlas and gazetteer: alaska
This atlas will be an invaluable resource for genealogical researchers. Each 11" x 15" chart is extremely detailed and maps back roads (paved & unpaved), along with trails, forests, mountains, and all lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams. Together, the maps in the set cover the entire state in the same fashion as the 1:250,000 series of geological survey maps issued by the U. S. government. A place name gazetteer identifies even the tiniest village and country crossroad. Most importantly, the atlas identifies many of the smallest watercourses which researchers can use to locate property and family sites.
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biographies of alaska-yukon pioneers 1850-1950, volume 4
Rich in Northwest history, this volume should appeal to researchers in the West and Northwest whose ancestors may have been Alaska-Yukon immigrants. Seattle, Portland and San Francisco were points of departure and return, and many immigrants settled in those cities after trying their luck on the frontier. Volume 4 contains more than 400 biographies, alphabetically arranged and full of fascinating information. The majority of these early Alaskans came to the territory between 1880 and 1910. The main sources used for this compilation were newspaper obituaries and magazine articles. Each biography is followed by one or more citations naming the publication from which the information was obtained and listing the original date of publication.
by Ed Ferrell
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fact sheet: alaska
Provides a county level map and general records information on a plastic card.
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the dangerous north
A new collection of hair-raising true tales about pioneers in Alaska, the Yukon and the northern Pacific region. It was a hardy breed of men and women who opened up the last frontier, and they tell some amazing survival stories. The author has selected 26 accounts of death and survival that chronicle the harsh realities of life on the northern frontier. These accounts were found in newspapers and magazines. Here are their stories, often in their own words. This is the North you will never read about in the travel brochures.
by Ed Ferrell
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the eskimo storyteller: folktales from noatak, alaska
An important story of oral literature and a historical evaluation of what the folktale meant to an Eskimo.
by Edwin S. Hall Jr
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