This is a list of free Alaska Genealogy Records at FamilySearch.

Included are Alaska birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, pension records, military records and more. We’ll continue to add more Alaska collections available online at FamilySearch. If you’re looking for onsite collections, visit their website & catalog.

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Alaska Birth, Marriage, & Death Records

Alaska Birth Records

• US – United States Births and Christenings, 1867-1931, index
• Alaska – Alaska, Vital Records, 1816-1959, index & images
• Alaska – Alaska, mixed vital records, 1901-1929
• Alaska – Alaska, mixed vital records, 1916-1929
• Russia – Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates, 1833-1885, index & images
• Channel Islands – Channel Islands Births and Baptisms, 1820-1907, index

Alaska Marriage Records

• US – United States Marriages, 1733-1990, index
• US – United States Western States Marriage Index, index
• US – United States, GenealogyBank Historic Newspaper Marriages, 1815-2011, index links to images
• Alaska – Alaska, Vital Records, 1816-1959, index & images
• Russia – Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates, 1833-1885, index & images
• Alaska – Alaska, marriage records, 1913-1935
• Alaska – Alaska, mixed vital records, 1901-1929
• Alaska – Alaska, mixed vital records, 1916-1929

Alaska Death Records

• US – United States Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968, index & images
• US – United States Social Security Death Index, index
• US – United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images
• US – United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images
• US – United States, Panama Canal Zone, Index to the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Registers, 1906-1991, index
• Alaska – Alaska, State Archives (Juneau), Coroner’s Inquests, 1913-1958, index links to images
• Alaska – Alaska, Vital Records, 1816-1959, index & images
• Alaska – Alaska, information sheets on deaths from the wreck of the steamer Princess Sophia Skagway to Vancouver, voyage no. 319, 1918
• Alaska – Alaska, mixed vital records, 1901-1929
• Alaska – Alaska, mixed vital records, 1916-1929
• Alaska – Alaska, coroner’s inquests, 1904-1959
• Russia – Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates, 1833-1885, index & images

Cemeteries

• US – United States, Cemetery Abstracts, 1949-1969, index links to images
• US – BillionGraves Index, index links to images
• US – Find A Grave Index, index links to images
• US – United States, Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921, index & images
• US – United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images

Funeral Homes

• Alaska – Record of funeral, 1907-1937

Obituaries

• US – Currentobituary.com index, 2001-2014, index links to images
• US – United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011, index links to images
• US – United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014, index & images
• Alaska – Alaska obituaries, 1985-2014
• Alaska – Obituaries from Alaska Weekly and Alaska Sportsman

Wills & Probate

• Alaska – Alaska, Pioneer Home discharge index, 1913-1958, index links to images
• Alaska, mixed precincts, probate records, 1899-1968
• Alaska, probate records, 1936-1968
• Alaska, mixed vital records, 1916-1929

Alaska Residence Records

Census

• 1890 – United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890, index & images
• 1900 – Alaska, 1900 federal census
• 1900 – United States Census, 1900, index & images
• 1910 – Alaska, 1910 federal census
• 1910 – United States Census, 1910, index & images
• 1920 – Alaska, 1920 federal census
• 1920 – United States Census, 1920, index & images
• 1930 – Alaska, 1930 federal census
• 1930 – United States Census of Merchant Seamen, 1930, index
• 1930 – United States Census, 1930, index & images
• 1940 – Alaska, 1940 population census
• 1940 – United States Census, 1940, index & images

Directories

• The Alaska-Yukon gold book : a roster of the progressive men and women who were the argonauts of the Klondike gold stampede…
• Disturnell’s business directory and gazetteer of the West Coast of North America, 1882-1883
• McKenney’s Pacific Coast directory, 1883-1884
• Pacific Coast business directory, 1867
• The Pacific Coast directory : giving name, business, and address of business and professional men of California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, and New Mexico together with sketches of the different towns, giving location, population, etc.
• R.L. Polk & Co’s Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska and British Columbia gazetteers and business directories, 1886-1902

Directories

• The Alaska-Yukon gold book : a roster of the progressive men and women who were the argonauts of the Klondike gold stampede…

Emigration/Immigration/Migration

• United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, index & images
• United States Index to Alien Case Files, 1940-2003, index links to images
• United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956, index
• United States Border Crossings from Mexico to United States, 1903-1957, index
• Alaska, indexes and manifests of alien arrivals at Anchorage, Juneau, Skagway, and Tok Junction, 1910-1956
• Alphabetical index of alien arrivals at Eagle, Hyder, Ketchikan, Nome, and Skagway, Alaska, June 1906-August 1946

Land & Property

• Alaska, land and property records : townsite deed books and cadastral survey records, 1909-1979
• Alaska, land records: Chugach National Forest, 1909-1990
• Alaska, land records: Tongass National Forest, 1920-1974
• Alaska, land records, 1897-1964

Maps, Almanacs, & Gazetteers

• The Arctic regions
• Atlas of Leelanau County, Michigan with maps of Michigan, United States and the world, Alaska, Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines : also a complete mailing list of all resident landowners of the county
• Geographic dictionary of Alaska
• Disturnell’s business directory and gazetteer of the West Coast of North America, 1882-1883
• Geographic dictionary of Alaska
• R.L. Polk & Co’s Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska and British Columbia gazetteers and business directories, 1886-1902

Naturalization & Citizenship

• Alaska Naturalization Records, 1884-1991, index links to images
• Alaska, State Archives (Juneau), Naturalization Records, 1900-1972, index links to images
• Alaska, naturalization records, 1900-1991
• Indexes to naturalization records of the U.S. District Court for the district, territory & state of Alaska (Third division), 1903-1991

Passports

• United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, index & images

Pension

• United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872, index & images
• United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
• United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images
• United States Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926, index & images

Workhouse/Poorhouses/Soldier Homes

• Alaska, Pioneer Home discharge index, 1913-1958, index links to images

Alaska Military Records

• Alaska, State Archives (Juneau), Military Service Discharge Records, 1898-1934, index links to images
• United States Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps, 1798-1937, index & images
• United States Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891, index & images
• United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914, index & images
• United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images
• United States, Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921, index & images
• United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index
• Alaska, State Archives (Juneau), military service discharge records, 1898-1934
• Alaska, military discharge records, 1898-1934

Revolutionary War

• United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872, index & images
• United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783, index & images

Mexican-American War

• United States Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848, index & images
• United States Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926, index & images

US Civil War

• United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, index links to images
• United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images
• United States Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses, 1861-1865, index links to images
• United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, index links to images
• Journal of the … annual encampment, Department of Washington and Alaska, Grand Army of the Republic

Indian Wars

• United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images

Spanish-American War, 1898

• United Spanish War Veterans death announcements

World War I

• United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, index & images
• United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946, index
• United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919, index links to images
• United States Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1942-1946, index
• Alaska, World War I Selective Service System draft registration cards, 1917-1918
• Alaska, World War I soldiers’ discharge records, 1917-1919
• Alaska, State Archives (Juneau), military service discharge records, 1898-1934

World War II

• Alaska, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945, index & images
• United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, index & images
• United States, World War II Prisoners of War, 1941-1945, index
• Alaska, World War II 4th draft registration cards, 1942
• Alaska, World War II draft registration cards, 1940-1947

Korean War

Vietnam War

Veterans, Enlistments, Pensions

• United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917, index links to images
• United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872, index & images
• United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, index & images
• United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926, index & images
• United States Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926, index & images
• United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940, index links to images

Alaska Daily Life Records

Alumni, Schools, & Yearbooks

• Alaska, High school transcripts and permanent records, 1938-1952
• Alaska, School annual reports, 1915-1972
• Letters concerning Alaskan schools, 1878-1894
• School records, 1927-1952
• Sheldon Jackson collection, 1885-1907

Biography

• Alaska Bar Association and sketch of judiciary
• Honoring 100 Alaska bush pilots

Business Records & Commerce

• Alaska, shipping records : master’s oaths, 1906-1957
• Records of the Russian-American Company, 1802-1867

Church

• Alaska, Russian Orthodox Church records, 1845-1917
• Index to baptisms, marriages and deaths in the archives of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in Alaska 1867-1889
• Index to baptisms, marriages and deaths in the archives of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in Alaska, 1900-1936
• Index to baptisms, marriages, and deaths in the archives of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in Alaska, 1890-1899
• Cook Inlet deaths copied from Greek Church Records, 1867-1912
• Among the Alaskans
• The history of the Mormons in Alaska
• Methodism in Alaska and Hawaii : new patterns for living together

Court

• Alaska, mixed precincts, probate records, 1899-1968
• Alaska, probate records, 1936-1968
• Alaska, coroner’s inquests, 1904-1959
• Alaska, court records : civil, criminal and administrative records, 1903-1960
• Alaska, District Clerk criminal docket, 1884-1960
• Alaska, Juneau, United States District Court records, 1900-1959
• Alaska, mixed vital records, 1916-1929
• Indexes to naturalization records of the U.S. District Court for the district, territory & state of Alaska (Third division), 1903-1991

Description & Travel

• Alaska: its southern coast and the Sitkan archipelago
• Alaska, 1899, Copper River Exploring Expedition
• Alaska, and missions on the North Pacific coast
• The ascent of Mount St. Elias (Alaska)
• Gold fields of the Klondike
• Klondike: the Chicago record’s book for the gold seekers
• Travel and adventure in the territory of Alaska.
• Wonderland ’98-1906
• Alaska: its southern coast and the Sitkan archipelago
• A woman’s trip to Alaska : being an account of a voyage through the inland seas of the Sitkan archipelago, in 1890

Employees, Occupations, Officials

• United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index
• United States National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel Files, 1954-1970, index & images
• Alaska, shipping records : master’s oaths, 1906-1957
• Alaska Bar Association and sketch of judiciary
• Honoring 100 Alaska bush pilots

Ethnic

• Alaska natives and the land : land and ethnic relationships

Minorities

• Alaska, Unga Precinct, death records, 1927-1941
• United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images

Japanese American Records

• United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images
• United States Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1942-1946, index

Native American Records

• United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images
• United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images
• Alaska natives and the land : land and ethnic relationships
• The Native races
• The Pacific northwest tribes missions collection of the Oregon province archives of the Society of Jesus, 1853-1960
• Records of Alaska Division of Bureau of Indian Affairs concerning Metlakatla, 1887-1933
• The roles of men and women in Eskimo culture
• School records, 1927-1952
• Under Mount Saint Elias : the history and culture of the Yakutat Tlingit
• Rachel Craig collection : family histories of Inupiaq Elders, Kotzebue, Alaska and the surrounding villages
• Tundra times, 1962-1973

History

• Alaska, 1899, Copper River Exploring Expedition
• Alaska, its neglected past, its brilliant future
• The Alaska-Yukon gold book: a roster of the progressive men and women who were the argonauts of the Klondike gold stampede…
• The devil and Mr. Duncan
• Gold fields of the Klondike
• The golden state: a history of the region west of the Rocky mountains ; embracing California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Washington territory, British Columbia, and Alaska, from the 1st period to the present time … with a history of Mormonism and the Mormons
• History of Alaska, 1730-1885
• Klondike and the Yukon country: a description of our Alaskan land of gold from the latest official and scientific sources and personal observation
• Kobuk River people
• Papers relating to the cession of Alaska, 1856-1867: enclosures 2 and 3 to dispatch 2115, dated December 2, 1936, from the United States Embassy in the Soviet Union
• Subject index to the Alaskan, 1885-1907, a Sitka newspaper
• A journey to Alaska in the year 1868 : being a diary of the late Emil Teichmann

Magazines & Periodicals

• Tundra times, 1962-1973
• A guide to the Pathfinder: a monthly journal of the pioneer of Alaska 1919-1926
• Index to the Thlinget: Aug. 1908 – June 1912

Medical

• Alaska, coroner’s inquests, 1904-1959
• Alaska, State Archives (Juneau), Coroner’s Inquests, 1913-1958, index links to images

Newspapers

• Subject index to the Alaskan, 1885-1907, a Sitka newspaper

Public Records

• United States Public Records, 1970-2009, index
• Papers relating to the cession of Alaska, 1856-1867 : enclosures 2 and 3 to dispatch 2115, dated December 2, 1936, from the United States Embassy in the Soviet Union

Societies

• Alaska Bar Association and sketch of judiciary
• United Spanish War Veterans death announcements

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