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Records of Alaska Natives in Religious Archives
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George
Green of Eek with his Yupik Script Bible, 1956.
(Alaska
State Archives. RG 298 Engineering and Health Division. SR 584
Village Safe Water Project Files,)
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Prepared
By Larry Hibpshman, Archivist
Alaska
State
June 11,
2003
RECORDS OF
ALASKA NATIVES
IN RELIGIOUS ARCHIVES
Introduction
Orthodox
missionaries arrived in Russian America in 1794, and many
religious groups have sent missionaries to Alaska since that
time. Alaska Natives have been members of numerous churches and
religious bodies over the years. Religious organizations provided
churches, schools, hospitals, and youth camps. They often
assembled important collections of records that document both Alaska
Native Cultural History and the personal lives of Native Alaskans.
This
is a list of known organizations that have significant collections of
records generated by religious bodies that are of interest to Alaska
Natives. It isn’t meant to be comprehensive. Valuable
Alaska Native Collections are probably not included, because we didn’t
know about them when we prepared this guide. A good publication
to consult for Alaska genealogical resources of all kinds is:
Connie
Bradbury and David Hales. Alaska Sources. A
Guide to Historical Records and Information Resources.
North Salt Lake, UT: Heritage Quest, 2001.
If
you are aware of other pertinent religious or denominational records
that should be included, please contact us at the following addresses:
Here are the resources that Alaska State Archives staff have
uncovered:
Alaska
Children’s Services
Alaska Children’s Services is a Cooperative agency of the
American Baptist, Disciples of Christ, Evangelical Lutheran, and United
Methodist churches. Records may be confidential.
Contact:
Baptist
Churches
American Baptist Churches: The Historical
Society of the American Baptist Churches holds Church Missionary
Society and Women’s Missionary Society collections, which include
records that relate to Alaskan mission activities. Historical
records include correspondence and photographs of the Baptist
Children’s Home on Woody Island near Kodiak. Contact:
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Archivist
Historical Society of the American Baptist Churches
Post Office Box 851
Valley Forge, PA 19482-0851
610-768-2269(v); 768-2266(f)
For contact: http://www.abhsarchives.org/contact-us.html
http://www.abhsarchives.org/ |
See also the listing for Alaska Children’s Services.
Southern Baptist Convention: The Southern
Baptist Convention operated the Turnagain Children’s Home on O’Malley
Road in Anchorage. The Home, begun April 1943, became an Alaska
Baptist Convention service agency August 1956. The Turnagain
Children's Home no longer exists, and the convention now provides
residential care and other social services for minors through Alaska
Baptist Family Services, which began operating May 2, 1974. To
locate records generated by these institutions, contact:
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Executive
Director
Alaska Baptist Family Services
1600 O’Malley Road
Anchorage, AK 99516
907-349-2222 |
Catholic
Church
Archdiocesan, Diocesan and Parish Records: The Catholic
Church in Alaska does not have a central archives, although the
Fairbanks and Juneau Dioceses have archivists. Most parish
records remain in individual parishes. Other records may be
available from one of the diocesan chancery offices, or from one of
several educational and missionary organizations.
Anchorage
Archdiocese. Contact:
Juneau
Diocese. Each church in the Juneau
Diocese maintains its own sacramental records. The diocesan
archivist maintains non-sacramental records, including material for all
fourteen parishes in the diocese. Diocesan records includes
correspondence and administrative records including church
administration and programs, parish Sunday bulletins, building
information and diocesan special events such as the Rosary Walks of
2003 and 2004.
Contact:
Holy
Name Catholic School Ketchikan: Current
student records of Holy Name Catholic School in Ketchikan are located
at the school. Student records are transferred to the Ketchikan
School district when students transfer to middle school. For
information contact:
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Andrea Wick
Holy Name School
433 Jackson Street
Ketchikan, AK 99901
907-225-2400 |
Fairbanks
Diocesesan Archives. Diocesan records
begin with an 1886 entry from Nulato. The archives also documents
names, from early Catholic pioneers to the present day. Of
particular note, student records of Saint Mary’s Catholic High School,
Saint Marys Alaska, which closed in 1987, are now are located at the
Fairbanks Diocesesan Archives. Access is restricted to former
students or their legal representatives. Only written inquiries
received by conventional mail are accepted, and should be addressed to
the chancery office:
The
Fairbanks Diocesan Archives primary purpose, however, is to maintain
sacramental records – records of baptisms, confirmations, marriages,
deaths and funerals. The diocese’s 47 parishes keep their own
sacramental records, but annually report them to the Diocesan
Archives. Baptismal Certificates can be used as proof of age for
social security purposes.
Sacramental
records include private information, and the documents aren’t open to
the public. The archivist will search for specific information,
unless requests involve fragile documents. If relevant
information is found the archivist can issue an official Sacramental
Certificate, in one of four types:
| Baptism
Certificates include: |
Confirmation
Certificates include: |
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Baptized person’s name
Parents’ names Parents’ names
Baptized person’s birth date and place of birth
Date and Place of Baptism
Godparents’ names
Officiating Priest’s name |
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Confirmant’s Name
Confirmation Name
Date and Place of Confirmation
Date and Place of Baptism
Sponsor’s name
Officiating Priest’s name |
| Marriage
Certificates include: |
Death/Funeral
Certificates include: |
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Individual’s name
Parents’ names
Date and Place of Marriage
Individual’s Date and Place of Baptism
Spouse’s name
Spouse’s Parents’ Name
Spouse’s Date and Place of Baptism
Officiating Priest’s name |
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Deceased’s name
Deceased’s birth place
Deceased’s age
Spouse’s Name
Sacraments Received
Date of death and burial
Officiating Priest’s name |
To
request sacramental information,
by Mail, Phone, Fax, or On-line:
It is
very important to plan ahead, to give the archivist time to
search. It is also important to provide as much information as
possible when you request a search. To request sacramental
information on the Internet go to the diocesan web site, fill out, and
send the On-Line Sacramental Request
Form. You can also download and
print the Sacramental
Request Form, to submit a search by mail or fax. Requests can
also be made by telephone.
Office
hours are 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday. Contact:
Sisters
of Providence: The sisters of
providence established Anchorage Providence Hospital, (1938, now Alaska
Medical Center), Fairbanks Saint Joseph Hospital (1910-1968) and Nome
Holy Cross Hospital (1902-1918). Sisters of Providence medical
work in Alaska became the Providence Health System, and records of the
following institutions were transferred from Nakoyia Health Systems to
Providence Health Systems:
| Anchorage: |
Providence
Alaska Medical Center (established 1938)
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Providence Extended Care Center (established 1983) |
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Mary Conrad Center (established 1987) |
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| Seward: |
Providence Seward Medical Center (established 1996) |
| Kodiak: |
Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center (established 1997) |
| Providence Valdez medical Center Valdez began services in
2005 |
Some Alaska records
are located at the Provincial and Corporate Archives is in
Seattle. The Provincial and Corporate Archives website includes
an online service request form. Contact:
Sisters
of Saint Anne: The Sisters of Saint
Anne began as a French speaking order in Canada. Known in the West and
North as Sisters of Saint Ann, the order ministered in several
areas in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Both the Mother House
Archives in Lachine, Quebec, and the Western Regional and Northwest
Province in Victoria, British Columbia have archival collections.
Northwest
Provincial Archives holdings include Records of Juneau’s Saint Ann’s
Hospital. As of 2004 the archives in Victoria are closed to the
public, but will respond to requests by telephone, fax or email, when
possible. Contact:
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Archivist
Sisters of St. Anne
Northwest Province
Archives
1550 Begbie Street
Victoria, BC V8R 1K8
604-592-3036
ssaarchvic@shaw.ca |
Sisters
at the Mother House Archives answer their telephone in French, but
English Language inquiries are accepted. Contact:
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Archiviste
Sisters of St. Anne
Mother House Archives
1280 Saint Joseph
Boulevard
Lachine, Quebec H8S
2M8
514-637-4616, ext.
212
chssa@bellnet.ca
musee@ssacong.org |
Society
of Jesus, Oregon Province: Gonzaga
University in Spokane, Washington holds the Jesuit Oregon Province
Archives. Provincial archives include the Alaska Mission
Collection and the Alaska Native Language Collection. Both
collections have been microfilmed and are available in Alaska.
Other materials include Alaska Prefecture records, oral histories,
photographs and moving picture film. Contact:
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Archivist
Oregon Province
Archives
Special Collections,
Foley Center
Gonzaga University
Spokane, WA
99258-0001
509-323-3814
kingma@foley.gonzaga.edu |
Marquette
University: The Marquette University
Archives has four collections that contain records relating to Alaska
Natives:
Bureau
of Catholic Indian Missions Records,
(1848-Present) include Alaska Mission records, particularly relating to
Inuits and Athabaskans. Holdings include both texts and
photographs, and relate to a number of different orders. Records
date from the late Nineteenth Century through the present.
Tekakwitha
Conference Records,
(1939-Present). Tekakwitha Conference is an organization for
Native American Catholics. Native Alaskan involvement has been
significant since the 1980’s.
Mary
Ewans, O.P Papers, (1882-1987)
include research notes about Native Catholic women who were religious
sisters. The Ewans papers are restricted, and new additions to
the collection currently are pending.
Anne
M. Scheurman Collection, (1973-1977) includes
color photographs and video recordings of celebrations in Canada, the
United States and Rome that pertain to Catholics and/or Indians.
The collection includes some Alaska Native materials from 1980.
The
Marquette Archives web site includes a general narrative description of
its Native Catholic collections and links to the inventories of the
Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, including microfilmed
series, which are available via interlibrary loan.
The
archives was recently awarded a federal grant to create an online guide
to Catholic records about Native Americans in the Western States,
comparable to a current guide to Catholic sources in the Midwest.
The Midwest Guide includes some sources about Alaska. Contact:
Alaska
and Polar Regions Department, University of Alaska Fairbanks: The Alaska and Polar Regions Department has diaries
form two Catholic Missions located at Nulato, Saint Peter Claver
(1935-50), and Out Lady of Showers (1950-60). The Polar Regions
Department also has microfilm copies of the Society of Jesus Oregon
province Indian Language and Alaska Catholic Missions Collections (see
Gonzaga University listing). Contact:
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Alaska and Polar
Regions Department
Elmer E. Rasmuson
Library
University of Alaska
Fairbanks
310 Tanana Drive
Fairbanks, AK 99701
907-474-7261(v);
474-6365(f)
ffslg@uaf.edu |
British
Columbia Archives: The British Columbia
Archives have limited records relating to Catholic missions in Alaska,
and the Yukon and Northwest Territories. The British Columbia
Archives is unable to respond to requests unless you provide complete
address information. A valid Internet email address should
consist of both your email user name, and the machine on which you have
a working email account (this may not necessarily be the same machine
or Internet IP address from which you are accessing this service).
Valid email addresses are typically in the following form:
name@somemachine.someplace.somewhere
Conventional
mailing address information should include: number, street, city,
province/state (or other region), country, and postal code. A form that
contains all of these elements is provided on the BC Archives web site.
Contact:
Disciples of Christ: See the
listing for Alaska Children’s Services.
Episcopal Church
Alaska
and Polar Regions Department, University of Alaska Fairbanks: The Alaska and Polar Regions Department serves as the
official Episcopal Church Archives in Alaska. Record types vary
for individual parishes.
Please Note: The Episcopal Church Collection is restricted
and permission for access must be obtained from the Episcopal Church at
the address listed below:
The
Polar Regions Department’s microfilm collection dates 1900 through
1989, and includes records of the following parishes:
| Allakaket |
Chena |
Fort
Yukon |
Nenana |
Shageluk
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| Anvik |
Eagle |
Huslia |
Nome |
Sitka |
| Bethel |
Fairbanks |
Ketchikan |
Point
Hope* |
Tanancross |
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Point Hope church records also include records for Candle, Kobuk, Nome,
Deering, Kotzebue, Point Lay, Kivilina, Noatak, Wainwright and White
Mountain
** Shageluk includes church
service register only
The
Polar Regions collection has Episcopal Church records other than parish
records, 1899 through 1976 for the following communities:
Arctic
Village, Fort Yukon, Juneau, Nenana, Skagway
The
collection includes two publications; The Alaskan Churchman
(Fairbanks Episcopal Church, -1980) and Alaskan Epiphany
(Episcopal Diocese of Alaska, from 1980). Contact:
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Alaska and Polar
Regions Department
Elmer E. Rasmuson
Library
University of Alaska
Fairbanks
310 Tanana Drive
Fairbanks, AK 99701
907-474-7261(v);
474-6365(f)
ffslg@uaf.edu
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For
permission to use the Alaska and Polar Regions Department’s Episcopal
Church Collection contact:
Evangelical Covenant Church
Two
important Covenant Church missionaries to Alaska were Edward and Jennie
Olson Rasmuson. Mr. And Mrs. Rasmuson were the parents of
prominent Alaskans Elmer Rasmuson and Evangeline Rasmuson Atwood.
Edward and Elmer Rasmuson were both presidents of the National Bank of
Alaska and its predecessor institutions. Evangeline Atwood was
the wife of Robert Atwood, publisher of the Anchorage Daily Times.
North
Park University. Evangelical Covenant
Church Headquarters are in Chicago, and the Covenant Archives and
Historical Library at North Park University is the denomination’s
archival repository. Evangelical Covenant Church records of
interest to Alaska Natives include correspondence, minutes, and reports
of denominational departments, including Home Missions (now Church
Growth and Evangelism) and World Missions (now World Mission).
Missionaries and their activities in Alaska are documented in
correspondence with the Church. Much of the material written
before 1925 is in the Swedish Language.
Collections
are available onsite for consultation, by appointment only.
Contact:
Alaska
and Polar Regions Department, University of Alaska Fairbanks. The Alaska and Polar Regions Department has the
following collections relating to the Evangelical Covenant Church in
Alaska:
Evangelical
Covenant
Church Records,
Unalakleet, 1888-1981. Records of baptisms,
marriages, births deaths, yearly meetings, conferences, church
membership, annual school reports, and family records. Records of
the Unalakleet Church sometimes contain entries for other villages,
including:
| Egawik |
Marshall
(Fortuna Ledge) |
Nunivak
Island (Mekoryuk) |
| Hooper
Bay |
Mountain
Village |
Scammon
Bay |
| Klickatarik |
Nome |
Shaktoolik |
| Koyak |
|
White
Mountain |
This
material is available on microfilm at the University of Alaska
Anchorage.
Unalakleet
Alaska Mission Daybooks and Logbooks, 1892 through 1915.
Includes daybooks of David Johnson (1893-95) and Axel Karlson (1894-97)
and the Covenant Mission logbooks. Some records are in Swedish
while others are in English. Records document funerals, marriages,
prayer meetings, visitors, and other mission and school activities.
Contact:
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Alaska and Polar
Regions Department
Elmer E. Library
University of Alaska Fairbanks
310 Tanana Drive
Fairbanks, AK 99701
907-474-7261(v); 474-6365(f)
ffslg@uaf.edu |
Alaska
State Archives. The Alaska State
Archives has student records of the former Covenant High School in
Unalakleet. Access is restricted to former students and their
fiduciaries. Written inquiries only, should be addressed to:
Society of Friends (Quaker)
Evangelical
Friends Church, Southwest: The
Evangelical Friends Church Southwest holds Alaskan Friends Mission
Diaries, 1897-1905. Contact:
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Evangelical
Friends Church Southwest
Box 1607
Whittier, CA 90609 |
Alaska
and Polar Regions Department, University of Alaska Fairbanks: The Alaska and Polar Regions Department has an Alaskan
Quaker Documents Collection, 1892 through 1897. It includes
microfilmed mission diaries and documents, individual missionary
papers, Douglas Monthly meeting records, ethnic stories, and copies of
the Alaskan Messenger.
The
Polar Regions Department also has the diaries of Margaret E. Hadley, a
Friends Missionary to Kotzebue, 1899 through 1903. Contact:
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Alaska and Polar
Regions Department
Elmer E. Rasmuson
Library
University of Alaska
Fairbanks
310 Tanana Drive
Fairbanks, AK 99701
907-474-7261(v);
474-6365(f)
ffslg@uaf.edu |
Lutheran Church (American Lutheran Church): See the listing for Alaska Children’s Services
United Methodist Church
Records
for the United Methodist Church and its predecessors are at the United
Methodist General Commission on Archives and History. Contact:
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General
Commission on Archives and History
United Methodist
Church
36 Madison Avenue
Madison, NJ 07940
973-408-3189 |
Questions
relating to the Jesse Lee Children’s Home may be
directed to the Alaska Children’s Services. The Alaska State
Archives has a photograph album created in 1940 by the Jesse Lee Home
staff. Questions about the album should be directed to the State
Archives staff
Moravian Church
Alaska
Province: Most records created by the
Moravian Church in Alaska are located at Province Headquarters in
Bethel. Contact:
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Alaska Moravian
Church
Alaska Province
POB 545
Bethel, AK 99559
907-543-2478 |
Aleknagik and Dillingham Moravian Church Records: Records of Moravian
churches in these two communities are located at the Dillingham
church. Contact:
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Dillingham
Moravian Church
POB 1350
Dillingham, AK 99576
907-842-5477 |
The
Moravian Archives in Bethlehem Pennsylvania has collections that
document Alaska Natives, including documents deposited by Rev.
Ferdinand Drebert December 1, 1958, John H. and Edith Romig Kilbuck
Papers and the Alaska Children’s Home in Kwethluk. Record types
include correspondence, historical files, minutes, ecclesiastical acts,
photographs, reports, statistics, diaries-journals, printed index cards
and material. The Drebert and Kilbuck Collections date roughly 1880s
through 1920s; the Children’s home records date 1939-1971.
Copies
of the Moravian Archives finding aids are on deposit at the Alaska
State Archives and the Alaska State Library Historical
Collections. For more specific information contact:
Parachurch Organizations
Many religious and
mission activities are not tied to specific denominations. Some
“parachurch” organizations sponsored religious activities among Alaska
Natives. Locating these records can be quite difficult but here are a
few suggestions.
Victory High School
Student Records: Victory High School located at Mile 95 Glenn
Highway, which closed in the 1980s was an agency of Arctic Missions.
Arctic Missions became InterAct Ministries. InterAct business offices
are located in Boring, Oregon and Palmer, Alaska. The Palmer
Office has most Victory High School transcripts and Doug Prins, is the
Palmer Office Manager. Former students may request copies at the
following contact points:
Wheaton College: One good resource for locating Alaska parachurch
mission records is the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College.
The Bill Center Archives has a number of collections with materials
that deal with independent Protestant Missions in Alaska, including the
following organizations:
Collection 36 Records of Gospel Recordings
The
Gospel Recordings organization prepared brief recordings of
evangelistic programs, including message, music and scripture
readings. Each recording made by an indigenous speaker was
recorded in that particular tongue. The Archives Collection
includes tapes, and some notes on various Alaska Native Languages.
Collection 136
Records of Mission Aviation Fellowship
Mission
Aviation Fellowship provides air transportation to missionaries in
remote locations. This collection includes correspondence between
Central Alaska Mission and the Moravian Church in Alaska
Collection
177 Papers of Zoe Ann Alford
Ms.
Alford was a missionary to India. Her oral history interview
(transcript on the web) includes a very small section on the support
she received from an Alaskan orphanage for Native American children.
Collection
178 Papers of Donald and Mary McGavran
Mr. And
Mrs. McGavran were missionaries in India and Donald a very prominent
teacher, and theorist, about church growth. His papers include
correspondence with workers at the Alaska Moravian Mission and the
Central Alaska Mission
Collection
237 Records of Slavic Gospel Association
The SGA
worked primarily with Russian speaking people in North and South
America and Europe. Their Alaska work included missions to
Russian-speaking Aleuts.
Collection 381 Interview with Peter
Deyneka Jr.
An oral
history interview with a missionary. His interview (transcript o
online) includes a description of his year as a pastor at an Aleut
church.
Collection
406 Records of SEND International
SEND
International, an independent Christian mission working in several
parts of the world took over the work of the Central Alaska Mission in
1971.
Collection
407 Records of Arctic Missions
Arctic
Missions, Inc. (formerly Alaska Missions Inc.) is a group of
nondenominational missionaries in Alaska and Canada, principally
British Columbia. The organization began rural evangelistic work
in Alaskan villages and participated in founding of Victory Bible Camp
in 1947. In 1959 they founded Victory High School, a boarding
high school for the Aleut and Inuit young people, and Arctic Bible
Institute, a Bible college, in 1976. The group began work in British
Columbia in 1967 and eventually established a Bible school there as
well.
The
collection includes correspondence, reports, brochures, and other
material.
To access any of these
collections contact:
Presbyterian Churches
Presbyterian
Historical Society: The Presbyterian
Historical Society has an online catalog, which can be accessed with an
XML-compatible browser. The Society had two offices, with records
for denominational and predecessor organizations. Location generally
was determined by affiliation with the former Northern and Southern
Presbyterian Churches. The Southern Presbyterian archives
(Montreat, NC 28757) recently was closed and all inquiries should be
directed to the Philadelphia archives:
Contact:
Princeton
Theological Seminary: Dr. Sheldon
Jackson was a major figure in early American Alaska. His papers
are located at Princeton Seminary’s Speer Library. Contact:
Alaska
and Polar Regions Department, University of Alaska Fairbanks. The Alaska and Polar Regions Department has
Presbytery of the Yukon Church Registers for the following Alaska
Presbyterian Churches:
| Anchorage: |
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Barrow
Utquiagvik (1960-96) |
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Faith
(1947-60) |
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Fairbanks
University Community Church (1950-94) |
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First
(1952-95) |
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Gambell
(1940-95) |
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Immanuel
(1952-95) |
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Kaktovik
1953-93) |
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Jewel
Lake Ecumenical Parish (1971-94) |
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Nuigsut
Kuukpik (1975-90) |
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Trinity
(1960-93) |
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Palmer
United Protestant Church (1967-95) |
| Eagle River (1951-89) |
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Savoonga
(1940-89; includes Savoonga Session Minutes, 1940-63) |
The Polar Regions Department has a microfilm copy of the Record Book of
the Juneau Native Presbyterian Church, 1894 through 1919. The
original document is at the Presbyterian Historical Society.
Contact:
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Alaska and Polar
Regions Department
Elmer E. Rasmuson Library
University of Alaska Fairbanks
310 Tanana Drive
Fairbanks, AK 99701
907-474-7261(v); 474-6365(f)
ffslg@uaf.edu |
Presbytery of the Yukon Microfiche Project
In
1999, the Presbytery of the Yukon celebrated its centennial.
Looking towards that anniversary, the Presbytery evaluated its archival
holdings and investigated ways to preserve the records as well as to
make them available to the public.
At
present the churches of the Presbytery possess approximately 110
registers of vital statistics from a number of different
locations. These volumes come from 22 churches.
The
information found in the vital statistics are valuable to historians,
genealogists, anthropologists, and other others, but until now the
records were not readily available to the public. A few registers
are in a central repository in Anchorage, but most are housed in their
respective home churches, making them difficult to access.
Apart
from the issue of accessibility is a concern for the preservation of
the information in these volumes. There were no copies of these
registers, except in rare instances where a photocopy had been
made. If fire, flood, or other natural disasters were to destroy
any of the local churches, the vital statistics would probably suffer
the same fate.
Microfiche
was decided upon as the best way to preserve and make these valuable
records accessible. The Presbytery of the Yukon Microfiche Project was
a joint project between the Presbytery of the Yukon and the Alaska and
Polar Regions Department. The Presbytery Historian, Rev. Diane
O’Connell provided guidance on the project. Marvin Washington, of the
Alaska and Polar Regions Department, filmed the records, and Mary Ann
Larson, Acting Curator of Oral History, Alaska and Polar Regions
Department, acted as Liaison between the Church and the University.
Copies
of the microfiche are available at the archives at the University of
Alaska Fairbanks, the University of Alaska Anchorage, the Loussac
Library in Anchorage, the Alaska State Library in Juneau, the Family
History Library in Salt Lake City, and the Presbyterian Historical
Society in Philadelphia. Other community libraries can obtain
copies at a nominal cost.
Brief
Guide to the Records on Microfiche
Not all
the churches in the Yukon Presbytery participated in having their
records microfiched. The churches that participated in the
project are:
| Anchorage: |
Eagle
River Presbyterian Church |
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Faith
Presbyterian Church |
Fairbanks
University Community Presbyterian Church |
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First
Presbyterian Church |
Gambell
Presbyterian Church |
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Immanuel
United Presbyterian Church |
Kaktovik
Presbyterian Church |
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Jewel
Lake Presbyterian Church |
Nuiqsut
Kuupik Presbyterian Church |
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Trinity
United Presbyterian Church |
North
Pole New Hope Presbyterian Church |
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United
Protestant Church |
Utqiagvik
Presbyterian Church |
Only vital statistics
records were included in the microfiche project were. A complete
set of vital statistics includes the following, information, in
alphabetical order:
| Affiliated
Members |
Elders |
Role of
Communicants |
| Baptized Members |
Marriages |
Suspended Members |
| Deacons |
Pastors |
Trustees |
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Deaths Roll |
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Contact:
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Alaska and Polar
Regions Department
Elmer E. Rasmuson Library
University of Alaska Fairbanks
310 Tanana Drive
Fairbanks, AK 99701
907-474-7261(v); 474-6365(f)
ffslg@uaf.edu |
Russian Orthodox Church
Saint Herman’s
Seminary: The seminary has a small archival collection.
It includes Russian Colonial and American Period church records,
liturgical records, pastoral and episcopal correspondence and
journals The collection also includes correspondence of Saint
Innocent (Ivan Viniaminov) and Yakov Netsvetov. Contact:
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Office of the
Dean
Saint Herman’s Seminary
414 Mission Road
Kodiak, AK 99615
907-486-5935 |
Library of Congress: In
1927 the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska transferred its records to
the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress online catalog
lists this collection as the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church
of America Diocese of Alaska Collection. Contact:
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Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress
James Madison
Memorial Building
101 Independence
Avenue, SE
Washington, DC
20540-4680
Telephone:
202-707-5387
Email: mss@loc.gov
Web Site: http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/ |
The
Alaska State Library Historical Collections
has microfilm copies, and a printed inventory, which is also available
at the following other institutions: Alaska and Polar Regions
Department, University of Alaska Fairbanks; University Archives,
University of Alaska Anchorage; the Alaskana Section, Anchorage
Municipal Libraries (J.Z. Loussac Library). . Contact:
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Alaska State
Library Historical Collections
Division of
libraries, Archives and Museums
POB 110571
Juneau, AK 99811-0571
907-465-2925
asl@eed.state.ak.us
Alaska and Polar Regions Department
Elmer E. Rasmuson
Library
University of Alaska
Fairbanks
310 Tanana Drive
Fairbanks, AK 99701
907-474-7261(v);
474-6365(f)
ffslg@uaf.edu
Consortium Library
University of Alaska
Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage, AK
99508
Anchorage Municipal
Libraries
Z.J. Loussac Library
3600 Denali Avenue
Anchorage, AK 99503
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Alaska
State Archives: The State Archives has
Russian period birth, death and marriage records for Southeast and
Southcentral Alaska, ca. 1818 through 1912. The Kodiak and Sitka
churches probably provided this information when the Alaska Bureau of
Vital Statistics was established in 1913. All birth records less
than seventy-five years old and all marriage records less than fifty
years old are restricted by Title 18.50.310, Alaska Statutes.
Contact:
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