From time to time, I like to remind folks that we have a thriving Portuguese Hawaiian genealogy group on Facebook. All you have to have is a Facebook account, then join the group. The group is set to private due to spammers, but all those seeking their family history are welcome to join. As of…
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Hawaii Obituary Index at Familysearch
Familysearch.org has a new database for Hawaii genealogists. It is “Hawaii, Obituaries Index, ca 19890 to Present”. It indexes obituaries from “Honolulu Advertiser, The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, The Kauai Garden Island News, The Maui News and The Hawaii Tribune-Herald” according to the description at the website. Currently the collection as 41,146 entries. It is searchable by…
Reaffirming that I am addicted
I’ve been working on the records for Achada, Nordeste (Azores) from the Azorean Aquivo website the last week or so. On my PC, this is a painstakingly slow process. The pages take 10-30 seconds to load. Then, I must enlarge them so I can read the names in the corner (often abbreviated forms). Then I…
San Francisco Passenger Lists 1893-1953
I don’t know how I miss this one! Familysearch.org now has the San Francisco, California Passenger Lists 1893-1953 Collection. The collection is indexed and linked to the original ship manifests. Be aware that the index is not complete. I did a few surname searches and found that it covers roughly 1916-1953 at this time. The…
Ancestry.com Doesn’t Offer Much for Hawaiian Researchers
Today is my pet peeve day. For the umpteenth time, I’ve heard a Portuguese Hawaiian genealogist (i.e. someone researching their Portuguese roots in Hawaii) tell me that they bought a subscription to ancestry.com and they “can’t find anything!” UGH! I hate those words. Let me start by saying, this isn’t a slam at ancestry.com. Ancestry.com…