Portuguese death records are called “obitos”. For most years, those obitos will be found in church records. If you’ve worked with the records of the 1800s, you know that most obitos offer very little information. They give the name of the deceased, the date of death, their age at death, what parish they were a…
Category: 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…
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: A Genealogy Gift
Randy’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun is to pick out a genealogy gift for someone and write about it. There are many things, existing and not, that I could chose. I think that instead of getting a gift for one person, it would be for the cousins who descend from my Great Great Uncle, Antonio Pacheco. …
These Death Certificates Complicate Things
I thought it would be a nice addition to my brother-in-law’s Christmas present if I found his Higgins line. So many databases have been added to the web since I last tackled this line two years. I might get lucky. What I know: 1. His great grandmother was Margaret Higgins 2. She was born in…