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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 Marys Igloo (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 Marys Igloo. 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 Marys Igloo ...

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.

While the name of this community is Marys Igloo, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Marys Igloo may originally have been Mary's Igloo.

Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Marys Igloo might be written as Mary Igloo.

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 Marys Igloo ...

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 3 newspapers that have been published in the area around Marys Igloo.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Marys Igloo, there are papers which were published within 38 miles [61.2 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Marys Igloo.

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 Marys Igloo:

Cemeteries Near Marys Igloo ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Marys Igloo.

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

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

  • Pilgrim Hot Springs Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Pilgrim Hot Springs Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Pilgrim Hot Springs Cemetery is located 43 miles [69.2 km]<2> to the south of Nome.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pilgrim Hot Springs Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2513815 <4>
  • Jensens Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Jensens Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Jensens Cemetery is located 18 miles [29 km]<2> to the south of Nome.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Jensens Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #81823 <4>

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

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<2>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 from Point A (ie- Marys Igloo) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Marys Igloo. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 65.1489, Longitude: -165.0678       In this case, the coordinates for Marys Igloo have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<3>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.
<4>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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