Hawaii, Kauai Obituaries - FamilySearch Historical Records

United States Hawaii Kauai

What Is In This Collection?
This is a digital image collection of an index to obituaries from the Garden Island Newspaper for the years 1990 to 2010.

To Browse This Collection
You may also wish to view the collection located at [[Hawaii, Obituaries Index (FamilySearch Historical Records) for an index of obituaries in Hawaii for the years 1980 to present.

What Can These Records Tell Me?
These obituaries may contain the following information:
 * Name of deceased
 * Date of death or burial
 * Place of death or burial
 * Gender
 * Age
 * Birth year (estimated)
 * Birthplace
 * Date of obituary publication

How Do I Search the Collection?
You can search the index or view the images or both. Before searching this collection, it is helpful to know:
 * The name of your ancestor.
 * The approximate date and place of death.

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I Found Who I was Looking for, What Now?

 * Copy the citation below, in case you need to find this record again later.
 * Use the information found in the record to locate the death record.
 * Use the age or estimated birth date to determine an approximate birth date to find other church and vital records such as birth, baptism, and marriage records.
 * Use the information found in the record to find land, probate and immigration records.
 * Use the information found in the record to find additional family members in censuses.
 * Repeat this process with additional family members found, to find more generations of the family.
 * Church Records were kept years before counties began keeping records. They are a good source for finding ancestors before 1900.

I Can't Find Who I'm Looking For, Now What?

 * Indexes and transcriptions may not include all the data found in the original records. You could get a copy of the original record from the Garden Island Newspaper, Kauai, Hawaii.
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