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Did you know that the University of Massachusetts has digitized Portuguese language newspapers? Did you know that this collection includes Portuguese language Hawaiian newspapers? Sometimes those Portuguese language newspapers are helpful and they lead to articles in English language newspapers. That’s how I learned about the Pacheco boys being the first on Kauai to sign…
Not many people know that the Kilauea Sugar Plantation was one of the first to begin using trains to move their sugar cane around. So, when Bev, my cousin’s wife, sent me a copy of the train photo with these Pacheco brothers in it, I was so excited. Surely, they had been a part of…
I thought I had a pretty darn good idea of the process Portuguese immigrants went through during the sugar plantation era. They signed a contact to work on a plantation while still at home. The applied for a passport. They got on the ship and were listed on the ship manifest. They arrived in Honolulu…
Given that we all have pandemics on our mind, I have wondered what happened to Hawaii in 1918. Did the flu pandemic hit them hard? Were they left unscathed because they were isolated? Or, were they in double trouble because of the military bases and international travel? I did a little research. This is what…
If you aren’t researching on FamilySearch.org, you are missing out on one of the best free genealogy database collections available. FamilySearch is maintained by the Mormon Church and draws from their vast collection. Not everything in their collection is on the website. Only a fraction has been digitized and indexed. What Titles Are Of Interest…