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 Port Nikiski (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 Port Nikiski. 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 Port Nikiski ...

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 Port Nikiski: Prt. Nikiski

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 Port Nikiski ...

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 4 newspapers that have been published in the area around Port Nikiski.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Port Nikiski, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Port Nikiski.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful 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 Port Nikiski:

• 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 Port Nikiski ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Port Nikiski.

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 Port Nikiski covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

• McGahan Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McGahan Cemetery
• Holy Assumption Of The Virgin Mary Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Holy Assumption Of The Virgin Mary Cemetery is located in Kenai.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Assumption Of The Virgin Mary Cemetery
• Kenai City Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Kenai City Cemetery is located in Kenai.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kenai City Cemetery
• Leif Hansen Memorial Park
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Leif Hansen Memorial Park is located in Kenai.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Leif Hansen Memorial Park

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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