Project: Alaska

Categories: Alaska | Alaska Project | Alaska Projects | United States Project | Volunteers Needed

This project is under the umbrella of the United States Project.

These tabs are easy access to the pages :

How to Join

It is not necessary that you be related to someone who lived in the state of Alaska or live there yourself to join. Anyone with an interest is welcome! If you would like to participate, please do the following:

Are you interested in the Alaska Project?

• Project Leaders: This sub-project needs a leader. If you are interested, please contact one of the Leaders of the United States Project
• Coordinators: This sub-project needs a coordinator. If you are interested, please contact one of the Leaders of the United States Project
• Answer our G2G welcome post to join the Alaska project and get a badge.
• Add Alaska to your followed tags.
• We use G2G and #united-states channel on the WikiTree Discord Server for communication.
• Check out our maintenance categories for our project needs, then jump in and start helping!
• Here is the Alaska project's Suggestion List. Working on these is a great way to contribute.
• Alaska Project Member List.
• Here is what our members are working on.

Mission & Goals

• The purpose of this project is to consolidate all Alaska-related sub-projects, free space pages, and resources, both internal and external, in one place.

• Our goal is to create and develop well-crafted and sourced profiles in WikiTree for those who lived in the State of Alaska before and after statehood.

Task List

People

1. Add Alaska-related profiles, checking for existing profiles to avoid duplication. If any duplicate profiles exist, request merges, starting with the oldest generation.
2. See the Alaska State Maintenance Category "Needs" categories
   1. Needs GEDCOM Cleanup If profiles were loaded by GEDCOM, use WikiTree Styles and Standards to clean up residue and broken links.
   2. Needs Biography: Write comprehensive, well-sourced biographies.
   3. Needs Profiles Created: Profiles need to be linked to the greater WikiTree. Try to find the connection. Make sure profiles of all family members are correct and documented.
   4. Needs More Records: Search out original rather than derivative documentation and add sources.
      1. Unsourced Profiles
      2. Needs Birth Record
      3. Needs Marriage Record
      4. Needs Death Record
3. Add profiles for those who obtained land grants and homesteaded in Alaska. See the Homesteaders Project
4. Help develop the Native Americans Project with information about Alaska state tribes.
5. Help find the Last Name at Birth (LNAB) for Alaska Unknowns using the Profile Improvement Project Unknowns Team Process

Places

Boroughs

• Would you like to lead a borough team? If you would like to be a member of a borough, send the project leader a private message, and you will be added to the trusted list. Currently, all boroughs need a team leader.! Click here to what this means: Team Leaders Position Description

Alaska One Place Study

• If you're interested in coordinating a place study for somewhere in Alaska, see the join post for the One Place Studies Project. Here are some ideas for studies:
  • National Register of Historic Places
  • Dams
  • Military forts
• Cemeteries in Alaska need to be photographed and the categories added to profiles on WikiTree.
• Location categories for places in Alaska need the CategoryInfoBox Location filled in with information. If you're interested in helping with this effort, contact project leadership to get you started.

Errors/Suggestions

1. Work on Alaska unconnected and unsourced profiles.
2. Work on for profiles in Alaska], as reported by the Data Doctors Project.

State Resources

• Note: Under Alaska law, all vital records are strictly confidential until they are released as public records after a set period of time: 100 years for births and 50 years for all other events.

• Currently, birth records are available for 1922 and before, and only from the time birth records were kept depending on the location.
• Marriage and death records from 1972 and previous to the date records were kept depending on the location.

1. If you find a free online resource:
   1. Check to make sure a free-space page doesn't already exist.
   2. Create space page - see: Share Source on WikiTree
   3. Add internal link to new page to the correction section on Sources-Alaska page
2. If you have any Alaska state resources that you are willing to do lookups on, please add them to the Resources Page.
3. If you live in Alaska, please consider adding Category: Alaska Research Assistance to your Wikitree profile page.

Related

Categories

• Alaska Category page
  • Alaska Projects page
  • Alaska, Cemeteries
  • Alaska Colleges & Universities
  • Alaska Governors
  • Alaska Homesteaders
  • Native Tribal Entities
  • Alaska, Politicians
  • Alaska Research Assistance
  • Alaska Genealogy Resources

Projects and Pages

• Homesteaders Project
• Native Americans Project
• US Governors Project
• United States in World War II
• Alaska disasters in the Disasters Project
• One Place Studies Project
• Western Red Cedars Team for Big Annual Challenges

Templates

Project Box

... ... ... is a part of Alaska history. Join: Alaska Project Discuss: Alaska

For profiles needing Project Protection only. Be sure to add the United States Project as manager of the profile: wtushistory@googlegroups.com

Profile Stickers

See: Alaska Sticker for more details

... ... ... was an Alaskan.

Deceased persons

... ... ... is an Alaskan.

Living Persons

See: Nonmigrating Ancestor Sticker for more details

Native Alaskan (born, married, and died in Denali Borough)

This sticker has more flexibility

Sources

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