Our next stop on the archives tour takes us to the Government Office Holders index cards. Each entry in this collection includes information on folks who held office Hawaiian government and the various office names. Go to the Government Office Holders main page. You have three choices: Search, Office Name A-Z, and Personal Names A-Z…
Category: Portuguese Hawaiian Roots
Problem with Names Part 3: Well, We Never Called Her That
Researchers usually don’t get very far before they find an ancestor who seems impossible to find. Many times this is because they are used to calling their ancestor by a certain name when, in fact, they were named something else. Names evolve, shorten, and modernize over time. Taking an ancestor from what everyone called them…
New Ship Indexes Added to YourIslandRoutes.com
Tonight I worked on another Winter Games Challenge: Participate in an indexing project. I’ve been working on my own indexing project for the last 2-3 years. I’ve been extracting Portuguese names from ship lists for ships from Hawaii to California. This involved extracting the name and putting them into spreadsheets for each ship. This took…
Wedding Chapel Wednesday: Wedding Portraits Recovered
Copies of two beautiful pictures from the turn of the century came into my possession last year: If you look closely, you can see that they are from the same portrait. The man’s shoulder and a little smidgen of his hat appears in the woman’s half of the picture. The couple are my Great Aunt…
Wedding Chapel Wednesday: I don’t want to touch the flower girl!
Alice Cosma was born in 1914, the daughter of Joaquim “John Cosma” Jacinto da Camara and Marie Pacheco. She was their last of nine children born to the couple. Clarence Darcy was born in California in 1910. His parents are unknown. Alice and Clarence married in 1932. The best man was Louis Avelar and the…