Passport Records Index to Immigrants from Fenais da Vera Cruz to Hawaii, 1879-1883 Compiled by Melody Lassalle from the book: Portuguese Immigrants from Azores to Sandwich Isles, 1879-1883: Passport Index, by Robert DeMello. Honolulu : De Mello Publishing Co., [n.d.] Page Name of Head of Family Spouse 13 Amaral, Bernardo da Jacinta Margarida 25 Arruda,…
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Passport Index: Arrifes
Passport Records Index to Immigrants from Arrifes, Sao Miguel Island to Hawaii, 1879-1883 Compiled by Melody Lassalle from the book, “Portuguese Immigrants from Azores to Sandwich Isles, 1879-1883: Passport Index”, by Robert DeMello. Honolulu : De Mello Publishing Co. Page Name of Head of Family Spouse 7 Almeida, Francisco Furtado Medeiros, Jacinta de Jesus 10…
Description of the Voyage of the S.S. City of Paris to Hawaii 1884
S.S. City of Paris left Madeira 9 April 1884 and arrived in Honolulu on 13 Jun 1884. Arrival of the S.S. City of Paris The steamship, City of Paris, under the command of Captain George Lockhead, left the island of Madeira, on April 9, 1884, at 9:20 p.m. with 556 Portuguese immigrants, arriving at St….
Prove It! Back Up Your Family Stories with Documentation
Interviewing relatives, writing letters, and badgering family members with questions are all integral parts of genealogy. Relying on oral history alone is a dangerous practice though. All oral history must be proven. Despite the fact that an elderly family members says it is’s so, does not make it true. That’s where documentation comes in. Review…
Causes of Death in Hawaii in the 1890s
As genealogists, we sometimes overlook the cause of death in records. The jargon is unfamiliar or the terms so old we can’t find them in modern dictionaries. What our ancestors died of can tell us a lot about the region where they lived and the times they lived in. Unlike names and dates, what they…