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→‎What can I find in them?: Emigration/Immigration records that are not digitized, but available at repositories or FamilySearch microfilm. Organized by ethnic group and chronological.
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==Immigration Records==
==Immigration Records==
'''Immigration''' refers to people coming into a country. '''Emigration''' refers to people leaving a country to go to another.  Immigration records usually take the form of ship's '''passenger lists''' collected at the port of entry. See [[Hawaii Emigration and Immigration#Online Resources|'''Online Resources'''.]]
'''Immigration''' refers to people coming into a country. '''Emigration''' refers to people leaving a country to go to another.  Immigration records usually take the form of ship's '''passenger lists''' collected at the port of entry. See [[Hawaii Emigration and Immigration#Online Resources|'''Online Resources'''.]]
The Chinese were one of the first groups to arrive in Hawaii for contract labor. The [https://digitalarchives.hawaii.gov/browse/parent/ark:70111/0jBz Records of the Chinese Bureau] are available online at the Digital Archives of Hawai'i. Many of these records are available in microfilm format and the following is a list in chronological order:
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/46999 Ship Manifests, 1843-1900]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/432158 Chinese Arrivals, 1847-1880]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/432096 Departures of Chinese from Hawaii, 1852-1900]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/431909 Card index to Chinese passports, 1884-1898]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/422272 Chinese passports, 1884-1890]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/432088 Chinese entry permits, 1888-1898]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/421864 Chinese immigration applications, 1890-1892]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/432401 Special residence permits of Chinese, 1891]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/432077 Index to entry permits for Chinese minors, 1891-1898]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/422261 Chinese emigration permits of Chinese laborers and domestics, 1893-1897]
* [https://digitalarchives.hawaii.gov/item/ark:70111/k6C Chinese Immigration Labor Permit Records, 1893-1898]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/408020 Certificates of identification of Chinese immigrants, 1895-1897]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/432173 Labor permits of Chinese persons who died in Hawaii 1895-1897, rejected permits, 1895-1897]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/432116 Chinese work permits, 1895-1897]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/421876 Records of deceased Chinese contract laborers, 1898]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1908532 Certificates of identification of Chinese immigrants, index]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1917695 Chinese immigration certificate of identity, Hawaii, 1908-1909]
The Japanese immigrated in higher numbers and there are many "away from home" [''dekasegi''] records also available on microfilm, listed in chronological order:
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/614394 Reports from the Consulate General of Japan in Hawaii, regarding people returning to Japan due to termination of contract, childbirth, death, etc. 1892-1895, 1896]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/614365 Japanese “away-from-home” workers in Hawaii, actions against men of military conscription age, court procedures, births and deaths, November 1884-July 1886]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/614312 Japanese “away-from-home” workers in Hawaii, February 1885-June 1894]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/614380 Japanese “away-from-home” workers in Hawaii: termination of labor contracts and return to Japan, June 1885 to October 1892]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/614418 Japanese “away-from-home” non-contract emigrants, 1886-1887]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1018437 Examinations of rejected Japanese immigrants, 1897]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/573968 Japanese denied admission to Hawaii, March 1897-December 1898]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/362901 Japanese emigrants who died in Hawaii, January 1901-December 1916]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/532911 Reserve fund payments to families of deceased Japanese workers in Hawaii, 1902]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/532982 Japanese denied admission to Hawaii, December 1902-September 1904]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/368831 List of names of Japanese emigrants April 1903-December 1904]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/531316 Japanese “away-from-home” workers in Hawaii, February 1909-October 1916]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/535161 Japanese “away-from-home” workers in Hawaii, December 1909-April 1918]
Other ethnic groups within records, chronological:
* [https://digitalarchives.hawaii.gov/browse/parent/ark:70111/0jCq Passenger Arrivals and Departures from 1843-1899]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/3463100 Passenger Manifests by Collector of Customs, 1843-1900]
* Indexes to Vessels Arriving at (1852-1948) and Departing from (1900-1949) Honolulu, Hawaii, NARA microfilm A3391. Note: These are not digitized and are available on microfilm at several NARA branches.
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/3021682 Passport Records, 1874-1898 includes a card index for Chinese passports for 1884-1898, Madeira to Hawaii 1878-1884]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/422283 <nowiki>Ship passenger lists [Portuguese] 1878-1913</nowiki>]       
* Gerald Paiva, ''[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/517186 List of Portuguese Passengers on Ships Bound for Hawaii, 1878-1899]''
* Robert S. De Mello, ''[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/496380 Passport Registrations: Portuguese immigrants from Azores to Sandwich Isles, 1879-1883]'' (Honolulu: De Mello Publishing Co., 1978).
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/408035 Certificates of identification by the Department of Interior, 1895-1899]
* [https://digitalarchives.hawaii.gov/browse/parent/ark:70111/0jDx Passenger Lists, 1900-1921]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2141044 Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Honolulu, Hawaii, 1900-1953]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1913398 Honolulu Index to Passengers (excluding Filipinos), 1900-1952]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2141043 Honolulu Index to Filipino Passengers, 1900-1952]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/3019097 Russian Immigrant Laborer Index, 1909-1910 (Harbin File])
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/45743 Shipping lists 1909-1910, 1910-1914 for the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/3160738 Alien Certificates surrendered at San Francisco, 1912-1946, for aliens that arrived at Honolulu]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/47024 Passports from the Portuguese Consulate, Honolulu, 1924-1939]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2427230 California immigration registers of Japanese, Filipinos, and Hawaiians at San Francisco, 1928-1942]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/47048 Certificates of Portuguese Citizens in Hawaii, 1929-1939]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2427245 Passenger lists of airplanes departing Honolulu, 1942-1948]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2426310 Index to Filipino arrivals to Honolulu, 1946]
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2427229 California airplane passenger lists from Honolulu, 1947-1948]
===What can I find in them?===
===What can I find in them?===
====[[Hawaii Emigration and Immigration #Online Resources|Information in Passenger Lists]]====
====[[Hawaii Emigration and Immigration #Online Resources|Information in Passenger Lists]]====
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