16 Jul 2016 |
Added Births in Sitka
and Other Places 1816-1867. See this database in the Vital
Records secction. |
09 Jun 2016 |
Added over 500 Sitka marriages and
other places, 1816-1866 |
19 May 2016 |
Added nearly 1600 Sitka
burials, 1816-1866. Many children are given. See the database in the
Vital Records section. |
05 May 2016 |
Added 41 issues of the
1912 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and Tanana Tribune to the In The
News section. |
11 Apr 2016 |
Added the Alaska-Canada Dispute by
Thomas Hodgins. |
10 Mar 2016 |
Added a Change Detection
box (upper right of this page). Would you like to be notified
when I add a page or pages? Just fill in your email address
and it'll go directly to Change Detection. Nobody will see
your register, not even me. |
28 Feb 2016 |
Added 3 pages re: Merchant
Marines in the Maritime section |
16 Feb 2016 |
Added 33 issues of
Volume 1 of the Fairbanks Daily Times. |
28 Jan 2016 |
Added Volume 1 of Nome
News, a total of 32 issues. |
20 Nov 2015 |
Added Jan-Dec 1890
issues of The North Star newspaper to the In The News
section. |
12 Nov 2015 |
Added 44 issues of The
Daily Alaskan newspaper. |
14 Oct 2015 |
Uploaded the Anchorage
Times Obituary Index, 1915-1965. See In The News page. |
03 Oct 2015 |
Broken links are
repaired. Because of search engine limitations, broke site in
half - AlaskaWeb and its annex, AKWeb. AKWeb will house
projects that currently don't have names. Check it out at <http://rootsweb.com/~akweb>.
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25 Sep 2015 |
Repairing broken links.
This will probably take a week. Please be patient. |
22 Sep 2015 |
New section added,
Dawson Y. T. Databases. |
17 Sep 2015 |
Added 30 issues of the
1907 Nome Pioneer Press. |
26 Aug 2015 |
Added 16 issues of The
Alaska Free-Press newspaper from Juneau, dates 1887 to 1888. |
22 July 2015 |
Added a
Placermining Claims Index.
See the Mining section in the Research Center for a 'new' link. |
14 July 2015 |
Original design of index
page was put back up, adding four links on top. |
09 July 2015 |
Redesigned the index
page, streamlining it. |
01 July 2015 |
Added a new section,
Aviation |
29 June 2015 |
Added three new
newspapers - The Esquimaux, the Yukon Press and the Aurora Borealis. |
29 May 2015 |
Added 110 new obituaries. |
27 May 2015 |
Opened a new section,
Obituaries (newspaper) - 250 obits added |
26 Apr 2015 |
Added a surname to the
Register. |
20 Mar 2015 |
Added a bio sketch for
Arthur Nicholas |
15 Mar 2015 |
Added an obituary for
John Patrick Bunce; rearranged the miscellaneous section and created
a vertical file; added to the vertical files are the Criminal Case
Files Index, 1900-1955 and Bankruptcy Case Files Index, 1901-1952 |
14 Mar 2015 |
Added a new biographical
sketch and a roster of the first Combat Intelligence Platoon of the
Alaska Defense Command |
07 Mar 2015 |
Added a mining accident
database (1911-1936) and a report on the Alaska-Mexican Mine; added
a surname to the Surname Register; added maritime news reports of
the sinking of fishing vessels Brunvoll and Imperial |
06 Mar 2015 |
Added a surname to the
Surname Register |
05 Mar 2015 |
Updated the census
section and added an article to the military section (WWII) |
04 Mar 2015 |
Updated six sections -
see the Research page |
23 Feb 2015 |
Broken links in the
Letters from Alaska section are now repaired. |
20 Feb 2015 |
Opened a new section,
"Letters from Alaska," starting in 1888 and including letters from
the family of Governor Bone, 1921-1925. |
12 Feb 2015 |
Updated the
Miscellaneous section. |
09 Feb 2015 |
Made corrections to the
FAQ section. |
25 Jan 2015 |
Added a list of some
Aleut deaths while in the internment camps. See the Natives
section. |
23 Jan 2015 |
Opened a new section,
"Immigration," with a database of Arrivals to Alaska, 1906-1956 -
over 70,400 entries. |
05 Jan 2015 |
Added the State Summary
of World War II Casualties for Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard
Personnel in the military section |
04 Jan 2015 |
Added essay, "Aleut
Internment During World War II," in both military and Alaska Native
sections |
10 Sep 2014 |
Repaired broken links
and opened a new section on beginning genealogy |
04 Sep 2014 |
Added 168 biographical
sketches |
21 Aug 2014 |
Added the 1886 Report of
Education in Alaska by Sheldon Jackson with a description of Indian
tribes |
15 Aug 2014 |
Added five new
yearbooks; and the 1883 Report of A Military Reconnaissance in
Alaska by Frederick Schwatka which has a description of Indian
tribes. |
08 Aug 2014 |
Added two new sections -
Religion and Yearbooks. Added a list of mushers in the 1925
serum run in the Disease section. |
01 Aug 2014 |
Added the 1870 List of
Inhabitants for St. Paul; the 1870 Letter From the Secretary of War
with a first-hand account of the bombardment of Wrangel; the 1870
letter from the Secretary of the Interior describing the condition
of Wrangel prior to its bombardment; the 1875 Report of Affairs in
Alaska with descriptions of the Indian tribes |
18 July 2014 |
Added 60 community
histories; 1st Bn/4th Infantry KIAs; Lest We Forget, Attu Memorial;
opened a section on Disease |
15 July 2014 |
Added a page on Alaska Native Naming
Traditions in the Alaska Natives section. |
11 July 2014 |
Opened a section on
World War II on the military page and added 2 cemeteries on the
cemetery page |
08 July 2014 |
Added article, CSS
Shenandoah: Civil War's Last Shots Were Fired in The Bering Sea |
07 July 2014 |
Opened a section on
Russian America |
01 June 2014 |
In the process of fixing
broken links |
28 May 2014 |
Native Aleut List of
Inhabitants for St. Paul Island, 1920-1929 added |
16 May 2014 |
Added the list of
interments for Jones Point Cemetery in Haines |
15 May 2014 |
Added the 1870 census of
Sitka, minus soldiers and Natives. |
07 April 2014 |
Added 16,300+ World War
I Draft Card names of those who registered in Alaska. Also,
repaired the WWI military personnel pages that had broken links. |
02 Feb 2014 |
Reorganized the
Native Alaska pages. Add a list of Alaska Natives Employed in the Indian Agency Service. |
31 Dec 2013 |
Added 367 Russian Orthodox marriages.
See the Vital Records page. |
25 Oct 2013 |
Added seventeen issues
of the Skaguay News to In The News. |
07 Aug 2013
|
Added the 1900
Roster of Men, U.S. Army
Troop Detachment Hospital, Camp at Port Valdez. |
06 Aug 2013 |
Started Regimental
Histories of Units Stationed in Alaska on the Military page.
Online now is the 24th Infantry Regiment history and the troop
roster from Company L. |
22 July 2013 |
Opened a Mining section.
Updated Maps, Cemeteries and In The News pages as a result of the
new section. Slide Cemetery, begun as a result of the 1899 avalanche
on Chilkoot Pass in Dyea is now online. See the Research Center page. |
01 May 2013 |
Added eleven issues of the Nome Gold
Digger to In The News. |
23 Apr 2013 |
Add transcribed newspapers section -
See "In the News" on the Research page. |
02 Mar 2012 |
Added nearly 500 obituaries and death
notices from the Alaska Sportsman. More to come... |
27 Jan 2013 |
Added a page of recommended links |
15 Jan 2013 |
Added a page to the Black Sheep
project. This is a start as support pages are next. |
09 Dec 2012 |
Names on Alaska's Maritime Memorial in
Juneau added to the Maritime section |
01 Dec 2012 |
Princess Sophia passengers and crew on
the day of 23 October 1918 |
28 Nov 2012 |
Alaska shipwrecks involving injury or casualty
added to site |
16 Nov 2012 |
Maritime section is opened |
11 Nov 2012 |
Point Hope marriages from 1880-1935 are
online on the Vital Records page. |
01 Nov 2012 |
Alaskaobits is now launched.
Visit via the
Obituaries from the Alaska Sportsman magazine link in the Research Center. |
29 Oct 2012 |
Added Polk's 1923-24 Gazetteer &
Directory (thanks to Katy Hestand) |
29 Oct 2012 |
Added the number of service members per
community in World War I |
28 Oct 2012 |
Added Fairbanks Home Guard General
Orders No. 1 and 4 |
26 Oct 2012 |
Extracts from some veteran's death
records from World War I -- soldiers and 1 sailor |
26 Oct 2012 |
Extracts from military personnel in
World War I were added -- soldiers, sailors and marines. |
03 Sep 2012 |
3 FAQ were answered and 2 look up
volunteers were added. |
01 Sep 2012 |
Four more Igloos were added today -
Anchorage, Cordova, Fairbanks and Nome. More to come.... |
31 Aug 2012 |
Added Pioneers of Alaska - 7 Igloos are
now online with more to come |
19 Aug 2012 |
Added to the Marriage Records, letters
W, H, E, M, O; updated the Surnames page |
18 Aug 2012 |
Gone for over a year, but
I'm back. Up for your review:
Alaska
Searchlight (1894-1898)
Index of Names |
13 June 2011 |
Corrected broken links.
Added two national cemeteries - Sitka and Fort Richardson. |
28 July
2010 |
Alaska's forts
added to the military page. |
28 June
2010 |
The city of Kaktovik
added to the
communities page. The 1907 Lists of Inhabitants
for St. George and St. Paul added to the
census page. |
14 June 2010 |
Letters H-Z of the Alaska
Deaths Index is now
online. This completes the migration of the working deaths
index over to alaskaweb. |
09 June 2010 |
The
Online
Library is brought online. |
08 June 2010 |
Records of Alaska Natives in Religious
Archives added to the Alaska Natives section.
Thanks, Larry! |
31 May 2010 |
The
Military in Alaska
section is now online, complete with a few pages. |
26 May 2010 |
The
Alaska Natives
section is now online, complete with a few references. |
14 May 2010 |
Removed drop down navigation and redesigned all main
pages, installing new navigation; installed new Trails to the Past
logo. Navigation on all main pages appears at the bottom
of each page. |
23 Apr 2010 |
Welcome to the site for AlaskaWeb at alaskaweb.org |