Hawaii Archives and Libraries

Wiki Articles on Major Repositories in Hawaii
National Archives at San Francisco· Family History Library

Archives
Hawaii State Archives Kekāuluohi Building ‘Iolani Palace Grounds 364 S. King Street Honolulu, HI 96813 Telephone: 808-586-0329 Fax: 808-586-0330 Website [mailto:dags@hawaii.gov/ Email]

They have the Vital Records Indexes to the State Archives. The Digital Collections page is now located at: Website. All of the collections have been migrated over to the new server with the exception of Vital Statistics, Maui. They are currently working to bring that online. Contact the State Archives for further assistance and/or questions.

National Archives at San Francisco Leo J. Ryan Federal Building 1000 Commodore Drive San Bruno, CA 94066 Telephone: 650-238-3500 Fax: 650-238-3510 [mailto:sanbruno.archives@nara.gov/ Email] Website

There are records from the 1850s to 1980s, and some recent as the early 2000s. U.S. federal courts, and over 100 federal agencies of Hawaii send their archival records here.

Libraries
Hawaii State Library 478 South King Street Honolulu, HI 96813 Telephone: 808-586-3500 Fax: 808-586-3584

Hawaii Chinese History Center 111 North King Street Room 410 Honolulu, HI 96817 Telephone: 808-536-5948

Bishop Museum Library 1525 Bernice Street Honolulu, HI 96817-0916 Telephone: 808-848-4148 Fax: 808-845-4133

DAR Library Aloha Chapter House 1914 Makiki Heights Drive Honolulu, HI 96822 Telephone: 808-949-7256 This library has the Carter Collection of Hawaiiana, business records, newspapers, and Japanese-Hawaiian publications.

University of Hawaii Hamilton Library, Hawaii Collection 2550 McCarthy Mall Honolulu, HI 96822 Telephone: 808-956-8264 Fax: 808-956-5968 Genealogical Resource Center

A helpful directory of Hawaiian libraries is Arlene D. C. Luster, A Directory of Libraries and Information Sources in Hawaii and the Pacific Islands (Honolulu, Hawaii: Hawaii Library Association, 1972)


 * Hawaii State Archives, State of Hawaii Department of Accounting and General Services

Hawaii Online Records
The Mountain West Digital Library is a search portal for an aggregation of digital collections from more than 50 universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, and historical societies in Utah, Nevada, and Idaho. It is in partnership with 60 academic libraries, public libraries, museums, historical societies, cities, counties, and state agencies from Utah, Nevada, Idaho, and Hawaii (coming soon: over 60 new partners in Arizona!) 

Websites
You can find computerized research tips and information about ancestors from Hawaii in a variety of sources at local, state, national, and international levels. The list of sources is growing rapidly. Most of the information is available at no cost.

Addresses on the Internet change frequently. The following sites are important gateways linking you to many more sites:

The USGenWeb Project A cooperative effort by many volunteers to list genealogical databases, libraries, bulletin boards, and other resources available on the Internet for each county, state, and country.

FamilySearch™ familysearch.org The Family History Library and some Family History Centers have computers with FamilySearch™. FamilySearch is a collection of computer files containing several million names. FamilySearch is a good place to begin your research. Some of the records come from compiled sources; some have been automated from original sources.