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 Chugiak (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 Chugiak. 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.
Cemeteries Near Chugiak ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Chugiak.
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 Chugiak covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Chugiak, with the one closest to Chugiak listed first.
St. John Cathedral Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Palmer Pioneer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
To give a relative sense of its location, the Palmer Pioneer Cemetery is located outside and to the northeast of Palmer.
Pioneer Cemetery (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Chugiak. See our List of 1890's Communities around Chugiak.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Chugiak ...
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 60 newspapers that have been published in the area around Chugiak.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Chugiak. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Chugiak and those printed in the larger area surrounding Chugiak.
An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3> of Chugiak.
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 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 Chugiak:
The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
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The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
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Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Chugiak) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Chugiak. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 61.4084, Longitude: -149.4839