Genealogy, History, Heritage, How To
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Years ago, I came across a passport entry for a family emigrating to Hawaii. It was for my great grandfather’s cousin, Florinda. I combed through Hawaiian records looking for a trace of Florinda, but never found one. I gave up and moved on. Years later, I got some DNA matches pointing to Pacheco cousins in…
It’s taken a decade but I finally figured out what happened to the Carreiro family of Maia.
It is the 140 year anniversary of the first Portuguese contract laborers arriving in Hawaii to work on sugar plantations. After reading Portuguese celebrate 140 years since first immigrants arrive I realized that there’s a couple of things that they got wrong. In fact, these misrepresentations are things many people believe about their Portuguese immigrant…
An interesting conversation broke out in the Portuguese Hawaiian group on Facebook over the role foremen and lunas played on plantations in Hawaii. Lunas and foremen were the ones who kept workers in line and kept work flowing. Although I’m concentrating on the Hawaiian Sugar Plantation system, my thoughts could apply to any authority figure…