Description: Guide to locating newspapers published in Alaska

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Alaska State Historical Library

Alaska State Historical Library maintains microfilmed newspapers from approximately 119 Alaska communities, dating back to 1866. Newspaper microfilm may be viewed at the library or may be borrowed through interlibrary loan.


Online Publications:

Guide to Alaska Newspapers on Microfilm, 1866-1998 - This guide lists cities in Alaska alphabetically followed by the newspapers published in that city. It also shows the newspapers publication dates, frequency of publication, editors, history and information on microfilm holdings for each newspaper.

Newspapers Listed by Title - This publication lists newspapers by their title and shows where each newspaper was published.

Chronologies of Alaskan and Regional Newspapers - This publication shows the timelines of newspapers published in Alaska.


Online Databases:

Fairbanks Area and Juneau Empire Newspaper Indexes - An online searchable database index containing over 200,000 items for Fairbanks from various dates from 1901 to 1975 and Juneau Empire from 1990 to 1999. Note this is an index only. You will need to refer to the actual newspaper microfilm for the complete article.

Contact Information:

Mailing Address:
Alaska Historical Collections
Alaska State Library
PO Box 110571
Juneau, AK 99811-0571

Physical Address:
333 Willoughby Avenue
8th Floor State Office Building
Juneau, AK

Website: http://www.library.state.ak.us/hist/newspaper/new...
Email: asl.historical@eed.state.ak.us
Telephone: 907-465-2925
Fax: 907-465-2990

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com has over 16,000,000 newspaper pages currently online and their database continues to grow each month. These pages are from over 1,000 different newspapers in the U. S., U. K. and Canada, dating back to the 1700's.

The Ancestry.com Historical Newspaper Collection, at the time of this writing, includes the following newspapers in Alaska:

Alaska Citizen, The (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1911-1915
Daily Prospector Bulletin (Valdez, Alaska) 1907-1907
Fairbanks Daily Times (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1906-1916
Fairbanks Evening News (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1906-1906
Fairbanks Sunday Times (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1913-1916
Prospector Daily Bulletin (Valdez, Alaska) 1907-1907
The Alaska Prospector (Valdez, Alaska) 1904-1907
The Fairbanks Weekly News Miner (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1920-1921
The Valdez News (Valdez, Alaska) 1901-1906

Ancestry.com also has an Obituary Collection that currently contains over 9,000,000 obituaries. At the time of this writing, the Alaska obituaries included are from the following newspapers:

Anchorage Daily News (Anchorage, AK) 2003-2007
Chugiak-Eagle River Alaska Star (Eagle River, AK) 2004-2007
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Fairbanks, AK) 2003-2007
Frontiersman (Wasilla, AK) 2003-2005
Juneau Empire (Juneau, AK) 2004-2007
Nome Nugget, The (Nome, AK) 2004-2005
Peninsula Clarion (Kenai, AK) 2003-2007

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WorldVitalRecords.com

WorldVitalRecords.com has recently added small town newspapers to their collection of online databases. They currently have over 1,000,000 newspaper pages online and will continue to add over 100,000 pages each month.

The WorldVitalRecords.com Small Town Papers Collection, at the time of this writing, includes the following newspapers in Alaska:

Southeast Alaska’s Island News (Thorne Bay, Alaska)

They offer the following subscription packages:

6-Month Package - Six month access to all databases.
Yearly Package - One full year of access to all databases.
Two Year Package - Two full years of full access to all databases, plus one year subscription to the print publication Everton's Genealogical Helper.

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Library of Congress

Library of Congress holds one of the largest newspaper collections in the world, comprised not only of the major titles published in all 50 states and territories of the United States, but also of titles from most independent countries and many dependent states that have existed during the past three centuries. Their collection holds over 9,000 US newspaper titles and over 25,000 non-US newspaper titles on over 500,000 microfilm reels and most are available through interlibrary loan.

Mailing Address:

Serial and Government Publications Division
Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave. SE
Washington, D.C. 20540-4760

Physical Address:
101 Independence Ave. SE
Madison Building, LM-133
Washington, D.C. 20540-4760

Website: http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/lcnewsp.html
Telephone: 202-707-5691
Fax: 202-707-6128

Visit website: Alaska Newspaper Research Guide