Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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 Fort Richardson (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 Fort Richardson. 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.

Name Variations for Fort Richardson ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Fort Richardson: Ft. Richardson

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Fort Richardson ...

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 77 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fort Richardson.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

• A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Fort Richardson. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Fort Richardson and those printed in the larger area surrounding Fort Richardson.
• An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Fort Richardson.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Fort Richardson:

• Websites specific to Alaska
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the Alaska State Archives

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Alaska
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Alaska
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Alaska
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Alaska
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Alaska

Cemeteries Near Fort Richardson ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fort Richardson.

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 Fort Richardson covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

• Ft. Richardson National Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Richardson National Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #109409 <2>
• Memorial To The Missing
  (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Memorial To The Missing is located in Anchorage.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Memorial To The Missing
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2155681 <2>
• Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Anchorage.
  • The Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Anchorage Municipal Cemetery
  • Memorial Park Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #191762 <2>
• St. John Cathedral Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • The St. John Cathedral Cemetery has also been known as:
  • St. John Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. John Cathedral Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2459004 <2>
• Angelus Memorial Park
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • The Angelus Memorial Park has also been known as:
  • Angelus Memorial Cemetery
  • Evergreen Memorial Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Angelus Memorial Park
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1966487 <2>
• St. Nicholas Orthodox Church Cemetery
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • The St. Nicholas Orthodox Church Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Eklutna Village Cemetery
  • Old St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Nicholas Orthodox Church Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1960291 <2>
• Sacred Heart Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sacred Heart Cemetery
• Hope Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Hope Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Hope.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hope Cemetery
• Wasilla Aurora Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Wasilla Aurora Cemetery is located in Wasilla.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wasilla Aurora Cemetery
• Sunrise Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunrise Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunrise Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Fort Richardson. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

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