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History and Genealogy
for
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy
for
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy
My name is Sandra Davis, and as your Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska host, I try to post as much data online as possible in order to make it freely available to all. Our goal at Genealogy Trails is to transcribe and post genealogical source data so that family researchers can track their ancestors through time, throughout the country.We gratefully accept contributions of raw data such as census information, marriage/birth/death records, obituaries, county histories, biographies, old newspaper items - anything that would help someone build their family tree!!
Please feel free to email me with your contributions - every little bit helps someone!!
I regret that I am unable to do personal research.
| Matanuska-Susitna Borough
(often referred to as the Mat-Su Borough) is located in the state of
Alaska with its borough seat located at Palmer and the largest city
being Wasilla. The Mat-Su Borough is so designated because it contains
the entire Matanuska and Susitna Rivers. These rivers empty into Cook
Inlet which is the southern border of the Mat-Su Borough. The Mat-Su
Valley was originally inhabited by Athabaskan Indians and was explored
by Russians in 1818. In 1880 a trading station was built in Palmer and
the area was settled by gold miners in 1913. Wasilla was originally
inhabited by the Dena'ina Indians and the city
began when the Alaska Railroad was constructed in 1917. In 1935, as
part of the New Deal, 200 families from the Midwest traveled to Alaska
and started the Matanuska Valley Colony. |
 Territorial School - Wasilla, Alaska Before 1934 |
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UPDATES:
March 2013
NEWS: MINING: Harry Tramble finds platinum; Horace C. Emery and Bert Stewart perish in snowslide; altercation between Jack Dalton and John Swift over coal delivery
NEWS: CRIME: Crime news regarding Paul Lane, Ole Nelson and Herman Anderson.
NEWS: ALASKA OUTDOOR EXPERIENCES: News article re: John Schmitt.
OBITUARIES: Obituaries for Dorothy G. Page, Darrell R. Welsh, Sandra L. Hermans, Esther S. Barber, Louis Osdather, Leo Marvin Nunley, Senafont Shugak, Sr., Harold E. Rhett, Merritt C. Long, Margaret R. Lynch, Mildred L. Combs, Janet Ann Barickman, Robert Michael Pippel, John Slevin, Raymond C. Vanek, Robert Olson Dahl, Anton C. Gangstad, Alton "Rebel" Jackson II, Albert Stephen and Ralph Long.
CEMETERIES: BURIALS: Aurora Cemetery -- Dorothy G. Page, Darrel R. Welsh, Sandra L. Hermans and Senafont Shugak, Sr.; Palmer Cemetery -- Robert Michael Pippel, John Slevin and Raymond C. Vanek; Talkeetna Cemetery -- Robert Olson Dahl, Anton C. Gangstad and Alton "Rebel" Jackson II; Knik Cemetery -- Albert Stephen.
CENSUS: 1940 U.S. Federal Census Records for ARRC Colony - Butte Section and Butte Section - Not Colonists in District 27 have been added.
| Submit Obituary Information Obituaries are one of the most important tools used by researchers in tracing their family roots. Please consider contributing any obituary information that you may have by submitting them here and filling out the transmittal form. Please include your email address should we have any questions. |
| Submit Cemetery Information A wonderful source of genealogical information that is very useful are cemetery headstones. They provide key data such as dates of birth, marriage information and dates of death. To submit headstone information please click here. |
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