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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Afognak. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Afognak to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Afognak, please Contact Us.


We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Afognak (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Afognak. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Newspapers Published in Afognak ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 27 newspapers that have been published in the area around Afognak.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Afognak, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Afognak.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Afognak:

Cemeteries Near Afognak ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Afognak.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Afognak covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Afognak, with the one closest to Afognak listed first.

  • Ouzinkie Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Old American Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Russian Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Russian Cemetery is located in Kodiak.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Russian Cemetery
  • Kodiak Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Kodiak Cemetery is located in Kodiak.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kodiak Cemetery

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Afognak. See our List of 1890's Communities around Afognak.

The official website for State of Alaska: alaska.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Afognak, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Afognak) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Afognak. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 58.0221, Longitude: -152.7652       In this case, the coordinates for Afognak have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).









 

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