Hawaii Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

*'''1942-1948''' {{RecordSearch|2427245|Hawaii, Passenger Lists of Airplanes departing Honolulu, 1942-1948}} at FamilySearch - [[Hawaii, Passenger Lists of Airplanes departing Honolulu - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images  

*'''1947-1948''' {{RecordSearch|2427229|California, Airplane Passenger Lists from Honolulu, Hawaii, 1947-1948}} at FamilySearch - [[California, Airplane Passenger Lists from Honolulu, Hawaii - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images

*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10119/immigrant-ships-transcribers-guild?s=1&formId=istg&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.hawaii+epmo.similar Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild] at MyHeritage - index only ($)

====Cultural Groups====

*'''1891-1898''' {{FSC|432077|item|disp=Index to entry permits for Chinese minors, 1891-1898}}, images

*'''1893-1898''' {{RecordSearch|3535187|Hawaii State Archives, Chinese Immigration Labor Permit Records, 1893-1898}} at FamilySearch - [[Hawaii State Archives, Chinese Immigration Labor Permit Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images

*'''1903-1944''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3310 Hawaii, U.S., Index to Chinese Exclusion Case Files, 1903-1944] at FamilySearch; index only ($)

*'''1909-1910''' {{RecordSearch|3019097|Hawaii, Harbin File - Russian Immigrant Laborers Index A-Z, 1909-1910}} at FamilySearch - [[Hawaii, Harbin File-Russian Immigrant Laborers Index A-Z - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images

*'''1920-1939''' [https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10924/germany-bremen-emigration-lists-1920-1939?s=1&formId=collection_10924:searchFormDef&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=master,immigration&p=1&qevents-event1=Event+et.any+ep.Hawaii+epmo.similar&qevents=List Germany, Bremen Emigration Lists, 1920-1939] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Hawaii

*'''1946''' {{RecordSearch|2426310|Hawaii, Index to Filipino Arrivals to Honolulu, 1946}} at FamilySearch - [[Hawaii, Index to Filipino Arrivals to Honolulu - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images

*[https://digitalcollections.hawaii.gov/greenstone3/library/collection/indextoj/page/about Hawaii State Archives Japanese Passenger Manifests Index]

*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10019/germans-immigrating-to-the-united-states?s=1&formId=immigration-norels&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration,pili&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.Hawaii+epmo.similar Germans Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Hawaii

*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10030/italians-immigrating-to-the-united-states?s=1&formId=immigration-norels&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration,pili,immigration-norels&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.Hawaii+epmo.similar Italians Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage - index only ($); includes those with Destination of Hawaii

*'''1874-1898''' {{RecordSearch|3021682|Hawaii, Passport Records, 1874-1898}} at FamilySearch — [[Hawaii Passport Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use This Collection]] - index & images

*'''1795-1925''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1174 U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925] Index and images, at Ancestry ($)

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.  

====National Archives and Records Administration====

*The [https://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/overview '''National Archives (NARA)'''] has immigration records for arrivals to the United States from foreign ports between approximately 1820 and 1982. The records are arranged by [https://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/passenger-arrival.html#https://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/passenger-arrival.html#where '''Port of Arrival (See Part 5).''']

*Libraries with large genealogical collections, such as the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog '''FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City, Utah'''] and the [https://acpl-cms.wise.oclc.org/genealogy '''Allen County Public Library'''] also have selected NARA microfilm publications.

:*Order copies of passenger arrival records with [https://www.archives.gov/files/forms/pdf/natf-81.pdf '''NATF Form 81'''.]

====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.

*[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.

=====Requesting a Record=====

*[https://www.uscis.gov/records/genealogy/genealogical-records-help/record-requests-frequently-asked-questions '''Record Requests Frequently Asked Questions''']

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==

*American missionaries from New England started coming in 1820, but the number of Americans was not significant until about 1875.

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:

The Japanese immigrated in higher numbers and there are many "away from home" [''dekasegi''] records also available on microfilm, listed in chronological order:  

* {{FSC|614312|item|disp=Japanese “away-from-home” workers in Hawaii, February 1885-June 1894}}

* {{FSC|362901|item|disp=Japanese emigrants who died in Hawaii, January 1901-December 1916}}

Other ethnic groups within records, chronological:  

====[[Hawaii Emigration and Immigration #Online Resources|Information in Passenger Lists]]====

*'''1891-1954''' - Information given on passenger lists from 1891 to 1954 included:

**whether in possession of a train ticket to their final destination, who paid for the passage,

**whether the passenger had ever been in prison, a poorhouse, or in an institution for the insane,

**and immigrant's state of health.  

*[https://catalog.archives.gov/id/177786398 Index to Hawaiian Certificates of Identity, pre, 1898] Images

Over the years, passports and passport applications contained different amounts of information about the passport applicant. The first passports that are available begin in 1795. These usually contained the individual's name, description of individual, and age. More information was required on later passport applications, such as:  

*Arrival information, if foreign born

==For Further Reading==

==References==