Portuguese Hawaiian Genealogy history and Heritage
If you have been researching your Portuguese family tree for any amount of time, you’ve notice that they weren’t very creative with their names. Antonio, Maria, Jose, Joao, Manoel, and Rosa fill out most 1800s genealogies. A Standard List of Given Names How many Maria’s can one family have? Did a mother ever revolt and…
Middle names as used in America weren’t shared across cultures. Portuguese males rarely used middle names. You might find one or two ancestors with a middle name, but was not the norm. Those who migrated to Hawaii continued this practice. So, how is it that after 1917 or so, many Portuguese Hawaiian males acquired a…
In researching your family tree, you’ll come across an exorbitant amount of people by the names of Joao, Francisco, Manuel, Maria, Isabella, Alexandrina, Jacinto, Jacinta, Antonio, and Jose. It seems that every Portuguese family expecting a child referred to the same, very short baby name book. That why nicknames are so important to our research! …