March 24, 2021
If you are researching your ancestry from Alaska, you will want to use GenealogyBank’s online AK newspaper archives: 72 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 – 1993)
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 – 12/30/1972 | 744 | Newspaper Archives |
| Anchorage | Anchorage Gazette | 12/01/1992 – 01/01/1993 | 2 | Newspaper Archives |
| Anchorage | Anchorage Daily Times | 05/01/1916 – 12/31/1926 | 3221 | 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 |
| Bethel | Delta Discovery | 07/15/2011 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Bethel | Tundra Drums | 11/28/2011 – 02/18/2016 | – | Obituaries |
| 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 |
| Douglas | Douglas Island news | 11/23/1898 – 06/10/1921 | 1152 | 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 | 167 | Newspaper Archives |
| Fairbanks | Weekly Alaska citizen | 10/08/1917 – 12/31/1917 | 13 | Newspaper Archives |
| Fairbanks | Sun Star, The: University of Alaska – Fairbanks | 11/08/2011 – 12/08/2014 | – | Obituaries |
| Fort Adams | Yukon Press | 05/01/1894 – 05/01/1894 | 1 | 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 |
| 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 | 3515 | Newspaper Archives |
| Juneau | Stroller’s weekly and Douglas Island news | 07/09/1921 – 12/30/1922 | 78 | Newspaper Archives |
| Kenai | Peninsula Clarion | 03/08/2000 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Kodiak | Kodiak Daily Mirror | 01/10/2011 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Nome | Nome Nugget | 01/06/2011 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Nome | Nome Gold Digger | 10/24/1900 – 10/24/1900 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Rampart | Alaska Forum | 10/25/1900 – 10/25/1900 | 1 | 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 – 02/26/1921 | 67 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Skagway | Daily Alaskan | 07/02/1898 – 02/03/1899 | 12 | Newspaper Archives |
| Skagway | Daily morning Alaskan | 02/21/1899 – 02/28/1904 | 983 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Wasilla | Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman | 09/13/2002 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Wrangell | Glacier | 02/01/1887 – 02/01/1887 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Wrangell | Stikeen River Journal | 01/01/1898 – 01/01/1898 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
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