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 Petersburg (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 Petersburg. 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 Petersburg ...

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 12 newspapers that have been published in the area around Petersburg.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

• A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Petersburg. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Petersburg and those printed in the larger area surrounding Petersburg.
• An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 39 miles [62.8 km]<1> of Petersburg.

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 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 Petersburg:

• 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 Petersburg ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Petersburg.

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).

• Petersburg Memorial Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Petersburg Memorial Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Petersburg.
  • The Petersburg Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Turn Point Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Petersburg Memorial Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Petersburg: www.petersburg.org/

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