July 6, 2023
If you are researching your ancestry from Alaska, you will want to use GenealogyBank’s online AK newspaper archives: 135 titles to help you search your family history in the “Last Frontier,” providing coverage from 1869 to Today. There are millions of articles and records in our online Alaska newspaper archives!
Dig deep into our online archives and search for articles about your ancestors from Alaska in these newspapers. Our AK newspapers are divided into two collections, each with their own search page:
- Newspaper Archives (complete paper with all articles, including historical obituaries, with a number of very rare single-issue newspapers – many of them are the only known issues of the paper)
- Obituaries (including both historical and recent obituaries, if obits are specifically what you are searching for)
Search Alaska Newspaper Archives (1869 – 1999)
Search Alaska Obituaries (1949 – Today)
Here is the complete list of Alaska newspapers in the online archives. Each newspaper title in this list is an active link that will take you directly to that paper’s search page, where you can begin searching for your ancestors by surnames, dates, keywords and more. The AK newspaper titles are listed alphabetically by city.
| City | Title | Years of Coverage | Issues Available | Collection |
| Anchorage | Alaska Dispatch | 10/15/2009 – 07/07/2014 | – | Obituaries |
| Anchorage | Alaska Dispatch News | 07/08/2014 – 11/16/2017 | – | Obituaries |
| Anchorage | Anchorage Daily News | 10/03/1985 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Anchorage | Anchorage Daily News: Web Edition Articles | 12/17/2007 – 06/28/2014 | – | Obituaries |
| Anchorage | Arctic Sounder | 06/28/2013 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Anchorage | Arctic Warrior, The: Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson | 06/03/2011 – 04/12/2019 | – | Obituaries |
| Anchorage | Bristol Bay Times & Dutch Harbor Fisherman | 06/07/2013 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Anchorage | Alaska Spotlight | 07/28/1956 – 11/30/1968 | 12 | Newspaper Archives |
| Anchorage | Anchorage Daily News | 12/01/1970 – 12/31/1999 | 10220 | Newspaper Archives |
| Anchorage | Anchorage Gazette | 12/01/1992 – 01/01/1993 | 2 | Newspaper Archives |
| Anchorage | Anchorage Daily Times | 05/01/1916 – 12/31/1949 | 10168 | Newspaper Archives |
| Anchorage | Alaska Journal of Commerce | 02/19/2005 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Anchorage | Anchorage Daily News: Blogs | 01/31/2007 – 02/14/2014 | – | Obituaries |
| Anchorage | NBC – 2 KTUU | 07/13/2010 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Anchorage | Anchorage daily times and Cook Inlet pioneer | 05/24/1916 – 05/28/1917 | 304 | Newspaper Archives |
| Anchorage | Anchorage weekly times and Alaska labor news | 07/14/1917 – 08/15/1918 | 37 | Newspaper Archives |
| Anchorage | Anchorage weekly times and Cook Inlet pioneer | 06/17/1916 – 09/16/1916 | 14 | Newspaper Archives |
| Anchorage | Cook Inlet pioneer | 10/23/1915 – 05/23/1916 | 28 | Newspaper Archives |
| Anchorage | Cook Inlet pioneer and Knik news | 06/05/1915 – 06/03/1916 | 45 | Newspaper Archives |
| Anchorage | CBS – 11 KTVA | 04/26/2002 – 01/24/2011 | – | Obituaries |
| Bethel | Delta Discovery | 07/15/2011 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Bethel | Tundra Drums | 11/28/2011 – 02/18/2016 | – | Obituaries |
| Chitina | Ghost town gazette | 07/16/1956 – 10/01/1959 | 34 | Newspaper Archives |
| Chitina | Chitina leader | 09/24/1910 – 12/21/1915 | 254 | Newspaper Archives |
| Chitina | Weekly herald | 01/18/1931 – 01/22/1933 | 105 | Newspaper Archives |
| Cordova | Cordova Times | 04/27/2011 – 12/15/2017 | – | Obituaries |
| Cordova | Cordova daily times | 12/02/1914 – 04/14/1923 | 2385 | Newspaper Archives |
| County | Mushing Magazine | 05/01/2019 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Dillingham | Beacon Dillingham news | 04/13/1950 – 10/28/1950 | 3 | Newspaper Archives |
| Douglas | Douglas Island news | 11/23/1898 – 06/10/1921 | 1152 | Newspaper Archives |
| Douglas | Alaska sourdough | 09/01/1911 – 12/26/1911 | 17 | Newspaper Archives |
| Douglas | Douglas miner | 08/26/1896 – 02/03/1897 | 9 | Newspaper Archives |
| Eagle River | Chugiak-Eagle River Star | 03/22/2012 – 03/05/2020 | – | Obituaries |
| Fairbanks | Fairbanks Daily News-Miner | 09/17/2001 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Fairbanks | Fairbanks Daily News-Miner | 11/29/1917 – 02/12/1960 | 38 | Newspaper Archives |
| Fairbanks | Alaska citizen | 04/09/1910 – 10/01/1917 | 385 | Newspaper Archives |
| Fairbanks | Daily Alaska citizen | 04/30/1918 – 01/30/1920 | 168 | Newspaper Archives |
| Fairbanks | Weekly Alaska citizen | 10/08/1917 – 01/26/1920 | 116 | Newspaper Archives |
| Fairbanks | Sun Star, The: University of Alaska – Fairbanks | 11/08/2011 – 12/08/2014 | – | Obituaries |
| Fairbanks | Jessen’s Weekly | 07/07/1955 – 08/04/1955 | 5 | Newspaper Archives |
| Fairbanks | Tanana Valley socialist | 10/15/1912 – 10/15/1912 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Fort Adams | Yukon Press | 05/01/1894 – 05/01/1894 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Glennallen | Copper River current | 06/21/1962 – 12/19/1963 | 39 | Newspaper Archives |
| Haines | Chilkat post | 03/03/1922 – 12/22/1922 | 19 | Newspaper Archives |
| Haines | Chilkoot post | 01/12/1923 – 06/25/1926 | 135 | Newspaper Archives |
| Haines | Fort Seward news | 12/16/1921 – 02/17/1922 | 6 | Newspaper Archives |
| Healy | Aurora Borealis | 12/31/1898 – 03/01/1899 | 3 | Newspaper Archives |
| Homer | Homer News | 10/04/2012 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Homer | Homer Tribune | 05/31/2019 – 10/03/2019 | – | Obituaries |
| Homer | Homer news | 05/20/1950 – 08/11/1955 | 63 | Newspaper Archives |
| Homer | Kenai Peninsula pioneer | 08/19/1955 – 02/27/1956 | 10 | Newspaper Archives |
| Hyder | Hyder Alaska miner | 10/24/1919 – 03/28/1923 | 170 | Newspaper Archives |
| Hyder | Hyder weekly herald | 09/08/1924 – 12/29/1934 | 526 | Newspaper Archives |
| Hyder | Hyder weekly miner | 10/27/1923 – 04/07/1924 | 20 | Newspaper Archives |
| Iditarod | Iditarod pioneer | 07/10/1910 – 11/22/1919 | 426 | Newspaper Archives |
| Juneau | Juneau Empire | 01/02/1998 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Juneau | Alaska Mining Record | 03/26/1891 – 12/27/1899 | 46 | Newspaper Archives |
| Juneau | Daily Alaska Dispatch | 01/20/1900 – 09/28/1919 | 5723 | Newspaper Archives |
| Juneau | Daily Record-Miner | 02/23/1903 – 05/08/1911 | 1607 | Newspaper Archives |
| Juneau | Capital City Weekly | 03/02/2005 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Juneau | Alaska daily empire | 11/02/1912 – 12/07/1926 | 4237 | Newspaper Archives |
| Juneau | Stroller’s weekly and Douglas Island news | 07/09/1921 – 12/30/1922 | 78 | Newspaper Archives |
| Juneau | Daily Alaska empire | 09/01/1927 – 12/29/1951 | 7491 | Newspaper Archives |
| Juneau | Juneau Empire | 02/17/1961 – 03/31/1961 | 37 | Newspaper Archives |
| Kenai | Peninsula Clarion | 03/08/2000 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Kenai | Kenai Peninsula cheechako news | 02/17/1961 – 06/14/1963 | 68 | Newspaper Archives |
| Ketchikan | Ketchikan miner | 03/16/1907 – 07/23/1915 | 190 | Newspaper Archives |
| Ketchikan | Daily progressive-miner | 07/01/1916 – 04/30/1919 | 804 | Newspaper Archives |
| Ketchikan | Ketchikan Alaska Chronicle | 01/03/1955 – 03/05/1955 | 53 | Newspaper Archives |
| Ketchikan | Ketchikan Daily News | 04/13/1955 – 09/16/1958 | 224 | Newspaper Archives |
| Knik | Knik news | 01/09/1915 – 05/01/1915 | 5 | Newspaper Archives |
| Kodiak | Kodiak Daily Mirror | 01/10/2011 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Kodiak | Kodiak mirror | 06/15/1940 – 12/27/1958 | 748 | Newspaper Archives |
| McCarthy | McCarthy weekly news | 11/03/1917 – 04/30/1927 | 484 | Newspaper Archives |
| Nenana | Nenana daily news | 04/01/1918 – 04/02/1921 | 804 | Newspaper Archives |
| Nenana | Nenana news | 04/05/1921 – 07/31/1923 | 327 | Newspaper Archives |
| Nenana | Nenana news | 09/23/1916 – 03/30/1918 | 77 | Newspaper Archives |
| Nome | Nome Nugget | 01/06/2011 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Nome | Nome Gold Digger | 10/24/1900 – 10/24/1900 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Nome | Nome daily nugget | 06/05/1906 – 04/30/1918 | 1667 | Newspaper Archives |
| Nome | Federal Emergency Relief Administration bulletin | 09/22/1934 – 10/18/1934 | 24 | Newspaper Archives |
| Nome | Nome nugget | 10/19/1934 – 11/06/1934 | 16 | Newspaper Archives |
| Nome | Nome tri-weekly nugget | 01/01/1919 – 10/29/1919 | 122 | Newspaper Archives |
| Nome | Daily Nome industrial worker | 01/01/1916 – 12/31/1917 | 608 | Newspaper Archives |
| Nome | Tri-weekly Nome industrial worker | 05/02/1918 – 11/02/1918 | 69 | Newspaper Archives |
| Nome | Nome tri-weekly nugget | 04/18/1906 – 04/23/1906 | 4 | Newspaper Archives |
| Palmer | Valley settler | 12/09/1937 – 02/22/1952 | 715 | Newspaper Archives |
| Palmer | Valley frontiersman | 01/05/1950 – 05/08/1952 | 114 | Newspaper Archives |
| Petersburg | Petersburg Press | 09/26/1958 – 12/26/1958 | 14 | Newspaper Archives |
| Rampart | Alaska Forum | 10/25/1900 – 10/25/1900 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Rampart | Alaska Forum | 09/27/1900 – 08/04/1906 | 153 | Newspaper Archives |
| Seward | Seward Phoenix LOG | 08/25/2011 – 10/06/2016 | – | Obituaries |
| Seward | Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post | 01/18/1918 – 11/27/1920 | 828 | Newspaper Archives |
| Seward | Seward daily gateway | 11/23/1905 – 09/02/1908 | 9 | Newspaper Archives |
| Seward | Seward gateway | 11/29/1920 – 02/09/1923 | 426 | Newspaper Archives |
| Seward | Seward gateway | 08/19/1904 – 11/18/1905 | 19 | Newspaper Archives |
| Seward | Seward gateway | 07/22/1914 – 01/31/1917 | 761 | Newspaper Archives |
| Seward | Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post | 02/01/1917 – 01/17/1918 | 283 | Newspaper Archives |
| Seward | Daily gateway | 08/07/1905 – 11/22/1905 | 76 | Newspaper Archives |
| Seward | Seward daily gateway | 04/02/1923 – 09/16/1933 | 3161 | Newspaper Archives |
| Seward | Seward gateway | 09/19/1933 – 10/31/1933 | 18 | Newspaper Archives |
| Seward | Seward seaport record | 09/25/1948 – 01/28/1955 | 473 | Newspaper Archives |
| Seward | Seward polaris & Kenai Peninsula-Aleutian chain news | 01/03/1948 – 09/22/1948 | 71 | Newspaper Archives |
| Sitka | Daily Sitka Sentinel | 01/09/2008 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Sitka | Alaska Herald | 09/26/1892 – 07/21/1894 | 2 | Newspaper Archives |
| Sitka | Alaska Times | 11/06/1869 – 12/25/1869 | 4 | Newspaper Archives |
| Sitka | Alaskan | 11/07/1885 – 08/02/1893 | 50 | Newspaper Archives |
| Sitka | Thlinget | 08/01/1908 – 06/01/1912 | 47 | Newspaper Archives |
| Sitka | Sitka Post | 04/20/1877 – 04/20/1877 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Sitka | Daily Sitka Sentinel | 07/01/1957 – 12/31/1959 | 238 | Newspaper Archives |
| Sitka | Alaskan | 07/16/1926 – 09/30/1932 | 320 | Newspaper Archives |
| Sitka | Baranof banner | 04/10/1958 – 10/02/1958 | 12 | Newspaper Archives |
| Sitka | Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press | 08/23/1955 – 12/30/1955 | 90 | Newspaper Archives |
| Skagway | Daily Alaskan | 07/02/1898 – 02/03/1899 | 12 | Newspaper Archives |
| Skagway | Daily morning Alaskan | 02/21/1899 – 02/28/1904 | 1126 | Newspaper Archives |
| Skagway | Morning Alaskan | 02/01/1898 – 02/01/1898 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Skagway | Skaguay News | 04/05/1898 – 04/05/1898 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Skagway | Daily Alaskan | 03/01/1904 – 12/30/1922 | 4943 | Newspaper Archives |
| Tanana | Tanana leader | 07/01/1909 – 08/25/1910 | 53 | Newspaper Archives |
| Teller | Teller News | 04/11/1901 – 04/11/1901 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Valdez | Alaska prospector | 02/13/1902 – 08/13/1908 | 337 | Newspaper Archives |
| Valdez | Valdez daily prospector | 07/18/1908 – 05/07/1918 | 1726 | Newspaper Archives |
| Valdez | Valdez weekly prospector | 08/20/1908 – 02/25/1909 | 26 | Newspaper Archives |
| Valdez | Daily prospector bulletin | 11/14/1907 – 11/14/1907 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Valdez | Valdez news | 03/10/1950 – 01/12/1951 | 17 | Newspaper Archives |
| Wasilla | Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman | 09/13/2002 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Wasilla | Frontiersman | 05/15/1952 – 12/26/1963 | 431 | Newspaper Archives |
| Wasilla | Frontiersman | 11/20/1946 – 10/08/1947 | 92 | Newspaper Archives |
| Wrangell | Glacier | 02/01/1887 – 02/01/1887 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Wrangell | Stikeen River Journal | 01/01/1898 – 01/01/1898 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Wrangell | Alaska sentinel | 11/20/1902 – 02/11/1909 | 183 | Newspaper Archives |
| Wrangell | Fort Wrangel news | 06/08/1898 – 10/26/1898 | 21 | Newspaper Archives |
| Wrangell | Stikeen River Journal | 01/22/1898 – 11/11/1899 | 74 | Newspaper Archives |
| Wrangell | Wrangell sentinel | 06/03/1909 – 12/28/1956 | 2382 | Newspaper Archives |
*Date Ranges may have selected coverage unavailable.
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