Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 13, Number 9, 1 September 1996 — Searching for family roots [ARTICLE]

Searching for family roots

The best plaee to start recording your family genealogy is with yourse!f and your immediate family. Record names, birthdates, events, marriages, divorces and the passing away of loved ones. Access family information through your parents. aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents. When you've gathered that information you may want to go back further and research records of ancestors you've never seen and know little about. Here is a short list of references to help you locate records holding information and photographs of your family. The state agencies fisted have received cutbacks due to downsizing so information may take longer to obtain than usually expected. State agencies should be contacted before 2 p.m.

Department of HeaHh: Office of Health Status Monitoring 1250 Punehhowl St. (808) 586-4605 / (808) 586-4600 Birth records, marriage documents, death records, delayed birth records fetal deaths, divorce records and Kalaupapa births. Church of Jesus Christ of LatterDay Saints 1560 S. Beretania St. (808)955-8901 Microfilm of baptismal, burial, divorce, real property, probate, immigration, journals, marriage, photographs, voter registration records containing variety of genealogical information and mueh more. Call for location of a Family History Center near your neighborhood.

Hawai'i State Archives 'Iolani Palaee Grounds (808)586-0329 Naturalization records, change of name records, tax records, oaths of loyalty, Hawaiian children of Chinese heritage; special certificates, marriage documents, Hawaiian genealogies, Kalaupapa patient registers, photographs and more. Bureau of Conveyances 1 151 Punchbowi Street (808)587-0148 Registration and records of land titles, maps and related documents from Kuleana (1845) to present. For more information on researching your genealogy look in OHA's Hawaiian Genealogy Program Directory of Secondaiy Sources located in all state libraries.