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Online Resources

• See United States Newspapers for more databases
• 1800s-1999 U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 at Ancestry - index ($)
• 1980-2014 United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014 at FamilySearch; index & images — How to Use this Collection
• Names and Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com™ (California, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands) at MyHeritage — index & images ($)
• ObitsArchive.com - Alaska ($)
• ObituariesHelp.org - Alaska Newspaper Obituaries Listings
• Online Alaska Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries
• The Obituary Link Page - Alaska Obituary Links
• Alaska Obituaries
• Alaska, U.S., Newspapers.com Stories and Events Index at Ancestry; images ($)
• US Newspaper List (USNPL)
• World Newspapers and Magazines
• NewsLink
• Alaska State Library, Alaska Newspapers on Microfilm, 1866-1998

Resources for Alaska Newspapers

Libraries and Archives

Newspaper Directory

• The U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present is a national directory from the Library of Congress of over 140,000 newspaper titles. The directory provides a list of libraries from around the country that have the newspapers in their collections.

Digital Issues Online

Alaska Online Historical Newspapers - identifies historical archived and digitized newspapers available online on both free and pay-to-access websites.

Indexes

Some newspapers have been published in Alaska, and a few indexes have been compiled. Major research centers have indexes to early papers from Fairbanks, Seward, and Petersburg. The FamilySearch Library has not collected Alaskan newspapers. The library has The Anchorage Times Obituaries Index, 1915-1980 (FamilySearch Library fiche 6331408-9).

The Alaska State Library has created the Alaska Newspapers Index. Currently there are 209002 files in the database covering numerous newspapers.

For Fairbanks newspapers see:Index of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces in Fairbanks, Alaska Newspapers, 1903-1930, by Fairbanks Genealogical Society.

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