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 Anchorage (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 Anchorage. 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 the Vicinity of Anchorage ...

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 Anchorage.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

• A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Anchorage. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Anchorage and those printed in the larger area surrounding Anchorage.
• An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 36 miles [57.9 km]<1> of Anchorage.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Anchorage:

• 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 Anchorage ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Anchorage.

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

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

• Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • 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>
• Memorial To The Missing
  (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • 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>
• Angelus Memorial Park
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • 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>
• Ft. Richardson National Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Richardson National Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #109409 <2>
• St. John Cathedral Cemetery
  (14 miles [22.5 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>
• Hope Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 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
• St. Nicholas Orthodox Church Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 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>
• Sunrise Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • 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
• Sacred Heart Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sacred Heart Cemetery
• Wasilla Aurora Cemetery
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • 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

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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