Hawaii Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

Although many records are included in the online records listed above, there are other records available through these archives and offices. For example, there are many minor ports that have not yet been digitized. There are also records for more recent time periods. For privacy reasons, some records can only be accessed after providing proof that your ancestor is now deceased.

U.S. Citizenship and and Immigration Services Genealogy Program[edit | edit source]

The USCIS Genealogy Program is a fee-for-service program that provides researchers with timely access to historical immigration and naturalization records of deceased immigrants. If the immigrant was born less than 100 years ago, you will also need to provide proof of his/her death.

Immigration Records Available[edit | edit source]

A-Files: Immigrant Files, (A-Files) are the individual alien case files, which became the official file for all immigration records created or consolidated since April 1, 1944.
Alien Registration Forms (AR-2s): Alien Registration Forms (Form AR-2) are copies of approximately 5.5 million Alien Registration Forms completed by all aliens age 14 and older, residing in or entering the United States between August 1, 1940 and March 31, 1944.
Registry Files: Registry Files are records, which document the creation of immigrant arrival records for persons who entered the United States prior to July 1, 1924, and for whom no arrival record could later be found.
Visa Files: Visa Files are original arrival records of immigrants admitted for permanent residence under provisions of the Immigration Act of 1924.^[1]

Requesting a Record[edit | edit source]

Web Request Page allows you to request a records, pay fees, and upload supporting documents (proof of death).
Record Requests Frequently Asked Questions

Finding Town of Origin[edit | edit source]

Records in the countries emigrated from are kept on the local level. You must first identify the name of the town where your ancestors lived to access those records. If you do not yet know the name of the town of your ancestor's birth, there are well-known strategies for a thorough hunt for it.

U. S. Immigration Records: Finding the Town of Origin

Background[edit | edit source]

Less than 1 percent of Hawaii's population is pure-blooded Hawaiian. Many immigrant groups originally came as contract laborers to work in the sugar fields. The Chinese began arriving in 1852, followed by the Portuguese in 1878, the Japanese in 1884, Koreans in 1903, and Filipinos in 1906. Those of Japanese descent presently constitute about 30 percent of the total population, and are the largest ethnic group in Hawaii. American missionaries from New England started coming in 1820, but the number of Americans was not significant until about 1875. For a summary of immigrant information see A History of Hawaiian Immigration

An especially helpful history of the many ethnic groups in Hawaii is Eleanor C. Nordyke, The Peopling of Hawaii(Honolulu, Hawaii: University Press of Hawaii, 1989) FHL book 996.9 W2n). Family History Library records of ethnic groups are listed in the FamilySearch Catalog under the subject heading HAWAII - MINORITIES. There are published histories for the Japanese and Filipinos, and annotated bibliographies for the Chinese and Koreans.

Hawaii. Bureau of Immigration, 7.7.1898-6.14.1900 NARA Administrative History Note

Records[edit | edit source]

The principal port of entry for immigrants into Hawaii is the Honolulu Harbor. *The names of early passengers and the ships they came on are indexed in Bernice Judd, Voyages to Hawaii Before 1860, Reprint (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1974) FHL book 996.9 W3j *Hawaii Collector of Customs, Ships' Passenger Manifests, 1843-1900 (SLC, Utah, 1976-1977) FHL film 1002794 (first of 72) On these films there are separate indexes for the Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese, and a general index for the rest of the passengers. *The Family History Library and the Office of the Consulate General of Portugal in Honolulu have microfilm of passenger lists of Portuguese immigrants for the years 1878 to 1913.FHL film 1017125
These two pages were omitted in error from previous filming;FHL film 1321135 item 17 *Hawaiian Sugar Planter's Association, Bureau of Labor and Statistics, Passenger Manifests of Filipino Contract Laborers (SLC, Utah, 1977-1978) FHL film 1002824 (first of 85) Digital version No longer available through FamilySearch Catalog entry. You can find microfilm at the FHL by doing catalog search for film 1,002,824 or 1204590. The BYU index will read up names in the keword-all http://lib.byu.edu/digital/filipinolaborers/ as of Mar2014. Do not click on pix. Click on name hits in blue. Cards include the migrant and his family's vitals, as well as the emmigration ship/dates, and sometimes a fingerprint card. An alphabetical index of immigrant Filipinos for the years 1906 to about 1977. *For immigration records for various nationalities which are available through the Family History library see Hawaii Emigration and Immigration

On Line Resources[edit | edit source]

1874-1898 - Hawaii, Passport Records, 1874-1898 at FamilySearch — index

1900-1952 FamilySearch Historical Record Collection Hawaii, Honolulu Index to Passengers, Not Including Filipinos, 1900-1952
A wiki article describing this collection is found at: Hawaii, Honolulu-Index to Passengers, Not Including Filipinos - FamilySearch Historical Records

1900-1952 Hawaii, Index to Filipino Passengers Arriving at Honolulu, 1900-1952 at FamilySearch — index and images

1942–1948 Hawaii, Passenger Lists of Airplanes departing Honolulu, 1942-1948 at FamilySearch — index and images

1942-1948 Hawaii, Passenger Lists of Airplanes departing Honolulu, 1942-1948 at FamilySearch — index and image

1940-1948 Hawaii, Passenger Lists, 1942-1948 Ancestry.com ($)

1900-1959 Honolulu, Hawaii, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1900-1959 Ancestry.com ($)

Index to Chinese Passenger Manifests, (Hawaii State Archives)

Index to Portugal Passenger Manifests, 1843-1900 (Hawaii State Archives)

Filipino Laborers Collection, Sugar Plantation Assoc index

↑ "Genealogy", at USCIS, https://www.uscis.gov/records/genealogy, accessed 26 March 2021.

[1] "Genealogy", at USCIS, https://www.uscis.gov/records/genealogy, accessed 26 March 2021.

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+==== Passport Records Online  ====
+*'''1795-1925''' - {{RecordSearch|2185145|United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925}} at [https://www.familysearch.org/search FamilySearch] — index and images
+*'''1795-1925''' - [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1174 U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925] Index and images, at Ancestry ($)
+===Offices to Contact===
+Although many records are included in the online records listed above, there are other records available through these archives and offices. For example, there are many minor ports that have not yet been digitized. There are also records for more recent time periods. For privacy reasons, some records can only be accessed after providing proof that your ancestor is now deceased.
+====U.S. Citizenship and and Immigration Services Genealogy Program====
+The [https://www.uscis.gov/records/genealogy '''USCIS Genealogy Program'''] is a fee-for-service program that provides researchers with timely access to historical immigration and naturalization records of deceased immigrants. If the immigrant was born less than 100 years ago, you will also need to provide proof of his/her death.
+=====Immigration Records Available=====
+*[https://www.uscis.gov/history-and-genealogy/genealogy/historical-record-series/a-files-numbered-below-8-million '''A-Files:'''] Immigrant Files, (A-Files) are the individual alien case files, which became the official file for all immigration records created or consolidated since April 1, 1944.
+*[https://www.uscis.gov/records/genealogy/historical-record-series/alien-registration-forms-on-microfilm-1940-1944 '''Alien Registration Forms (AR-2s):'''] Alien Registration Forms (Form AR-2) are copies of approximately 5.5 million Alien Registration Forms completed by all aliens age 14 and older, residing in or entering the United States between August 1, 1940 and March 31, 1944.
+*[https://www.uscis.gov/history-and-genealogy/genealogy/historical-record-series/registry-files-march-2-1929-march-31-1944''' Registry Files:'''] Registry Files are records, which document the creation of immigrant arrival records for persons who entered the United States prior to July 1, 1924, and for whom no arrival record could later be found.
+*[https://www.uscis.gov/history-and-genealogy/genealogy/historical-record-series/visa-files-july-1-1924-march-31-1944'''Visa Files:'''] Visa Files are original arrival records of immigrants admitted for permanent residence under provisions of the Immigration Act of 1924.<ref>"Genealogy", at USCIS, https://www.uscis.gov/records/genealogy, accessed 26 March 2021.</ref>
+=====Requesting a Record=====
+*[https://genealogy.uscis.dhs.gov/ '''Web Request Page'''] allows you to request a records, pay fees, and upload supporting documents (proof of death).
+*[https://www.uscis.gov/records/genealogy/genealogical-records-help/record-requests-frequently-asked-questions '''Record Requests Frequently Asked Questions''']
+==Finding Town of Origin==
+Records in the countries emigrated from are kept on the local level. You must first identify the '''name of the town''' where your ancestors lived to access those records. If you do not yet know the name of the town of your ancestor's birth, there are well-known strategies for a thorough hunt for it.
+*[[U. S. Immigration Records: Finding the Town of Origin|'''U. S. Immigration Records: Finding the Town of Origin''']]
 ==Background==