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Web Resources: GENEALOGY
- Obituaries from the Honolulu Advertiser and Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Courtesy of Joseph F. Smith
Library, Brigham Young University (BYU) Hawaii
Current coverage: 1994-2005
- Hawaii Newspaper Index
Tips for finding obituary citations in the Hawaii Newspaper Index, using the online catalog of the Hawaii State Public Library System (HSPLS)
Current coverage: 1989-present
Direct link to the Hawaii Newspaper Index
- Vital Records Branch, Department of Health, State of Hawaii
In Hawaii birth, death, marriage, and divorce certificates are recorded and issued by the Vital Records Branch.
- Hawaii State Archives
The Archives Historical Records Branch is the state's central repository for non-current government records of permanent value, and other historical materials such as government publications, manuscripts, maps, and photographs.
State Archives Online Catalog via Hawaii Voyager
- Cyndi's List - U.S. - Hawaii
Extensive compilation of resources and links for and about Hawaii. Cyndi Howell has extracted the data for Hawaii from national databases and resources.
- Genealogical Resources in Hawaii
By Gordon Morris, Fran Jackson, and Patty Belcher.
- Hawaii State GenWeb Project
Genealogy resources, links, and mailing lists
- Special Collections, Hamilton Library, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Includes the University Archives, Rare Books and Manuscripts, and the Hawaii War Records Depository
- Repositories of Primary Sources: Hawaii
Courtesy of the Special Collections and Archives, University of Idaho Library
- Honolulu County Genealogical Society
- Maui Genealogical Society
- Ancestry.com
Genealogy and historical records searches, links to the Census, family tree help, a Learning Center of how-to guides and links, access to the Social Security Death Index (SSDI), more
- Family Search
This Latter-day Saints (Mormon) site provides access to the top level documentation available from the LDS archives. Also links access to Census information, the U.S. Social Security Death Index (SSDI), the Vital Records Index, and more.
- GenealogyPortal.com
Search genealogy sites on the Web.
- Helm's Genealogy Toolbox
Genealogical links and search engines
- Genealogy.com
Search for ancestors, search historical records, build your family tree online.
Note: many components are commercial.
- Genealogy Glossary
Definitions of genealogical terms, presented by Genealogy Today
- AccessGenealogy
Genealogies, records, and more -- all free
- RootsWeb
Hosts many genealogy Web sites, mailing lists, genealogy search engines, and census
projects
- USgenWeb
Volunteers work together to collect Web sites for genealogical research in every U.S. state, counties within states, as well as links to resources, including
- Worldgenweb
Web sites for genealogical research for countries other than the United States
- StateGenSites
Genealogy sites across the United States
Hawaii StateGenSites
- Find A Grave
Search for the graves of relatives and ancestors in a database of over 4.5
million burial records, or search different cemeteries. In addition, Find
A Grave has a database of the burial places of famous persons.
- Obituary Depot
Over 250,000 searchable obituary citations, with 500 more added daily
- National Archives & Records Administration (NARA)
- Ellis Island
Access records of ancestors who entered the United States through Ellis Island
- Treasure Maps
This "how-to genealogy site" offers online tutorials for getting started.
- U.S. Census Bureau
The Census can be valuable in genealogy research.
- Sources2Go.com
Digitized government records: "scans of orginal documents for genealogists and family historians"
- Vital Records Information
United States
Information about obtaining vital
records from each state, territory and county of the United States.
By
Elizabeth Orsay.
Vital Records Hawaii
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