CENSUS RECORDS

Purchased in 1867, Alaska's earliest surviving census that includes a majority of the territory is for the year 1900. Censuses were taken every ten years, and are available through 1920. All but the 1910 are indexed. Censuses prior to 1900 are sporadic and fragmented, though exist for a variety of areas. Consult:

Jackson, Ronald Vern. Alaska Census Records, 1870-1907. Bountiful, UT: Accelerated Indexing Systems, 1976.

Alaska Research Sources

Alaska Historical Society
524 West 4th Avenue, Suite 208
P.O. Box 100299
Anchorage, AK 99510-0299

National Archives and Records Administration - Pacific Alaska Region
654 West Third Avenue
Anchorage, Alaska 99501-2145
Tel: 907-271-2441
Fax: 907-271-2442
Email: archives@alaska.nara.gov

NARA's Pacific Alaska Region in Anchorage has more than 9,000 cubic feet of archival holdings, including textual documents, photographs, maps, and architectural drawings dating from about 1867 to the present. The records were created or received by federal courts and over thirty federal agencies in Alaska. Anchorage is the newest NARA facility and holds numerous cases relating to fishing, land title, and other treaty rights of Indian tribes, and generally reflects the history of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, dating back to the territorial courts.

(The above description was excerpted from "Beyond the Titanic: National and Personal History in the National Archives" by Loretto Dennis Szucs, Ancestry Magazine, March/April 1998, Vol. 16, No. 2. Full text of the article can be found at: /magazine/articles/beyond.htm)

Alaska State Archives & Records Management Services
141 Willoughby Ave.
Juneau, AK 99801-1720
Tel: 907-465-2270
Fax: 907-465-2465
Email: archives@educ.state.ak.us
http://www.educ.state.ak.us/lam/archives/home.html

Department of Health & Social Services
Bureau of Vital Statistics
P.O. Box 110675
Juneau, AK 99811-0675
Tel: 907-465-3392
Fax: 907-465-3618

Alaska State Library
8th Floor, State Office Building
333 Willoughby Ave.
P.O. Box 110571
Juneau, AK 99811-0571
Phone: 907-465-2925
Fax: 907-465-2990
Email: asl@muskox.alaska.edu
http://www.educ.state.ak.us/lam/library.html

Valdez Museum & Historical Archive
217 Egan Drive
Box 8
Valdez, AK 99686-0008
Tel: 907-835-2764
Fax: 907-835-4597 or 5800
Email: vldzmuse@alaska.net
http://www.alaska.net/~vldzmuse/index.html

Alaska USGenWeb Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~akgenweb/

Ghosts of the Gold Rush
http://www.gold-rush.org/
(This site features Filson's Pan for Gold database, which contains "information on individuals who were in the Yukon during the Gold Rush years.")

Klondike Gold Rush Centennial 1898-1998: Calendar of Events
http://www.touryukon.com/

The Alaskan Information Center
http://alaskan.com/gen-info.html

Alaska Division of Tourism
http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/tourism/