These articles are designed to help you research your Portuguese ancestry in Hawaii.
Getting Started
- Portuguese Hawaiian Genealogy: Information to Help You Explore Your Roots
- 10 Reasons Why You Can’t Find Your Portuguese Ancestors
Archives and Libraries
- Hawaii State Archives Digital Collection Tour: Genealogical Indexes
- Hawaii State Archives Digital Collection Tour: Government Office Holders
- Hawaiian State Archives Digital Collection Overview
- Microfilm Available for Portuguese Hawaiian Research Through the LDS Family History Center (Includes links to online digitized content)
Books
- Kauai: 100 Years in Postcards (free ebook)
- Labor Conditions in Hawaii…1915 (free ebook)
- The Molokai Settlement (free ebook)
- History of the Azores or Western Islands By Thomas Ashe, c1813 (free ebook)
- Hawaii: It’s People, Climate, and Resources (free ebook)
- Hawaiian Almanac and Annual: 1887 (free ebook)
- Lost Kingdom by Julia Flynn (book review)
- Men of Hawaii…volume 1, 1917 (free ebook)
Census
- 1930 Census Background Information
- 1930 Census: Free Collection (Reel by Reel)
- 1940 Census Sheets are Different for Hawaii
- Making a Research Chart for 1940 Census Research
- Take Another Look at the Census: Your Female Ancestors
Church Records
Cultural Issues and Topics
- Caucasian But Not White: Race and the Portuguese in Hawaii
- What We Get Wrong About the Portuguese 140 Years After The First Contract Laborers Arrived
Immigration and Naturalization
- Example of a Hawaiian Naturalization Record, 1902
- Locating Naturalization Records in Hawaii
- San Francisco Passenger Lists, 1893-1953
- Ship Manifest for the Pacheco’s
- Surrendered Alien Certificates Might Help Hawaii Researchers
Military
Newspapers and Books
- Garden Island Newspaper Online, 1902-1922
- Hawaiian Newspapers in Digital Collection
- Hawaii Obituary Index at Familysearch
- Kauai County Obituaries Online 1982-2010
Portuguese Language, Naming Practices, Etc.
- Curious Spelling of Jozimas (52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Series)
- Danger of Surname Research with Portuguese Ancestry
- Problem with Names Part 2: Latinization
- Problem with Names Part 3: Well, We Never Called Her That!
- Problem with Names Part 4: Inconsistency
- Why Portuguese Surname Research Doesn’t Always Work (Chart)
Vital Records
- Delayed Birth Records May Help Hawaiian Genealogists
- Early Hawaiian Death Records
- Hawaiian Delayed Birth Records Part One: What are Delayed Birth Records?
- Hawaiian Delayed Birth Records Part Two: How Did They Apply?
- Hawaiian Marriage Licenses
- Maria and Theodoro’s Marriage Certificate
Updated 9/7/2016
