Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Port Chilkoot. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Port Chilkoot to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Port Chilkoot, please Contact Us.

---

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 Port Chilkoot (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 Port Chilkoot. 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 Port Chilkoot ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Port Chilkoot: Prt. Chilkoot

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 Port Chilkoot ...

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 Port Chilkoot.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Port Chilkoot, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Port Chilkoot.

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 Port Chilkoot:

• 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 Port Chilkoot ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Port Chilkoot.

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

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

• Haines Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • 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.<3>
  • 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 <4>
• 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
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Yendistucky Indian Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1980444 <4>
• 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 <4>
• Skagway Cemetery
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Skagway Cemetery is located outside and to the north of Skagway.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Skagway Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2504374 <4>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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