Category Archives: Vital Records
Wedding Chapel Wednesday: Hawaiian Marriage Licenses
I thought in this post for Wedding Chapel Wednesday I’d talk about pre-1900 Hawaii Marriage Records. If you’ve done any research in Hawaii for records before 1900, you know that it’s difficult to find vital records. While recording of events was mandatory before 1900, consistency didn’t exist until around 1910. When dealing with marriage records …
Hawaii State Archives Digital Collection Tour: Genealogical Indexes
The first stop on our tour is the Genealogical Indexes. The online description says this is an index to marriages, divorces, probates, wills, and citizenship records for 1826 to 1929. As with all Hawaiian collections, this is not a complete index. There are two ways to access these indexes: Browse and Search. Let’s look at …
An Azorean Marriage Record: Maria and Jozimas
[Fearless Females, Prompts for Women's History Month, March 4th: Marriage Record of my Great Great Grandparents] In my previous entry, I showed you a copy of the Marriage record for my Great Grandparents, Theodoro Pacheco and Maria de Braga. The record was from a Catholic Church and was written in Latin. This next example is …