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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 Haines (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 Haines. 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 Haines ...

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 Haines.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Haines. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Haines and those printed in the larger area surrounding Haines.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 18 miles [29 km]<1> of Haines.

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 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 Haines:

Cemeteries Near Haines ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Haines.

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

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

  • Haines Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Haines Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Haines Cemetery is located in Haines.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Haines Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2210289 <3>
  • Johns Point Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Johns Point Cemetery is located outside and to the west of Haines.
    • The Johns Point Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Haines Cemetery
    • Jones Point - Haines Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Johns Point Cemetery
  • Yendistucky Indian Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Skagway Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Gold Rush Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Gold Rush Cemetery is located outside and to the northeast of Skagway.
    • The Gold Rush Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Skagway Town Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gold Rush Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2164940 <3>

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

The official website for Haines: www.haines.ak.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Haines) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Haines. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 59.2350, Longitude: -135.4454    
<2>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<3>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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