2. The census records listed below are a translation of a hand written record. You should use this information only as a guide to your own further research. If you find an entry that looks like your family, I strongly suggest that you look at the microfilms yourself for confirmation.  Some of the films were of poor quality,some were very faint, and some census takers simply had terrible penmanship. All of these things made sections of the films very hard to read accurately.

3. If you find your family on any of these pages, or if you find an occasion to use any of this information, I would really enjoy hearing from you!! If you need information from an area or village that is not on this page, let me know and I will try to locate it.

4.I have done my best in translating the following census records. You are welcome to put a link from your web page back to my web page.

5.Everything on this web page and the attached web pages has been copied exactly as I found them,  Some records have obvious errors, some have politically incorrect words.  Please know that these are not MY words. For the sake of accurate historical information, I am showing them on this web site just as I found them.

* A trail from Sunrise City up Six-mile River and south through the canyon.
* A winter trail from Old Knik up the Knik River then NE to the Copper River.
* A summer trail from Old Knik up the Matanuska River, passing Palmer's store and King's house to Millich Creek   and, via Hicks Creek, Trail Lake and Nulchuk Tyon Village, to the Copper River (pretty  much the route of the present Glenn Highway.
* A summer trail from Grubstake Gulch on Willow Creek over Hatcher Pass and down to Palmer's Upper House with a branch leading to Vacilla's and to Mellish House.

After 1912, other much used trails had developed northward from Seward and out from
Knik to the east and west (and various mines):

* Seward Trail (1905) from Eklutna, over Peter's Creek, through the mountains, down Crow Creek and Glacier Creek, passed Kern Creek, 20 Mile Creek, Portage Creek and  up Placer River.
* Watson Coal Trail, which was later known as the Goodwin Trail and which was the first lap of the Iditarod trail from Knik to Susitna Station:
* The Klondike and Boston Co., Summer Trail along the beach from Knik to Cottonwood then towards the mountains, passing between Lake Lucille and Wasilla Lake to  Grubstake Gulch (now part of Knik-Wasilla Road) with a branch marked R.R. Trail, to the Kashwitna River.
* Carle Road (now Fishhook Road) developed a little later from Knik between Lake Lucille and Wasilla Lake to the gold fields of Hatcher Pass.
* Dalton Trail branched of the Carle Road as it entered the Little Susitna Canyon and then ran east to the coal mines.
* Information extracted from a book called: Old Times on Upper Cook's Inlet by Louise Potter