Alaska Archives and Libraries

United States Alaska Archives and Libraries

The archives, libraries, and societies listed below have collections or services helpful to genealogical researchers.

Archives

• Alaska State Archives
  141 Willoughby Avenue
  Juneau, AK 99801
  Telephone: 907-465-2270
  Fax: 907-465-2465
• National Archives—Alaska Region (Anchorage)
  Federal Office Building
  654 West Third Avenue, Room 012
  Anchorage, AK 99501
  Telephone: 907-271-2441
  Fax: 907-261-7813
• Anchorage Museum of History and Art
  121 W. 7th Avenue
  Anchorage, AK 99501
  Telephone: 907-343-4326
  Fax: 907-343-6149
  The museum has an archive section.

Libraries

• Alaska State Library
  Alaska Historical Collections
  State Office Building
  P.O. Box 110571
  Juneau, AK 99811-0571
  Telephone: 907-465-2910
  Fax: 907-465-2665
• University of Alaska, Fairbanks
  Elmer E. Rasmuson Library
  310 Tanana Drive
  Fairbanks, AK 99775-6800
  Telephone: 907-474-7224
  Fax: 907-474-6841
  Mailing address:
  P.O. Box 756800
  Fairbanks, AK 99775-6800

Societies

• Genealogical Society of Southeastern Alaska
  P.O. Box 6313
  Ketchikan, AK 99901
• Alaska Historical Society
  P.O. Box 100299
  Anchorage, AK 99510-0299
  Telephone: 907-276-1596
  Fax: 907-276-1596

Alaska Digital Collections

Template:AKDClefthas statewide online database links which may include vital records, biographies, cemeteries, censuses, histories, immigration records, land records, maps, military records, naturalizations, newspapers, obituaries, or probate records.

Two helpful guides to Alaska records are:

• Ulibarri, George S. Documenting Alaskan History: Guide to Federal Archives Relating to Alaska. Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press, 1982. FHL fiche 6101864; book 979.8 A3u

• University of Washington (Seattle) Library. The Dictionary Catalog of the Pacific Northwest Collection of the University of Washington (Seattle) Libraries. Six Volumes. Boston, Massachusetts: G.K. Hall and Company, 1972. FHL books 979.7 A3w v. 1 – 6