Hawaii Emigration and Immigration

Online Resources

 * 1500s-1900s All U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s - Hawaii, USA at Ancestry; index only ($); Also at MyHeritage; index only ($)
 * 1843-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1893-1898 at FamilySearch - How to use this collection; index & images
 * 1895-1956 United States, Border Crossings from Canada, 1895-1956 to Hawaii at MyHeritge; index & images ($)
 * 1895-1964 All U.S., Border Crossings from Mexico to U.S., 1895-1964 at Ancestry; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Hawaii
 * 1900-1952 Index to Passengers Arriving at Honolulu, Hawaii, 1900-1952 at Ancestry; index & images ($)
 * 1900-1952 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1900-1952 Hawaii, Index to Filipino Passengers Arriving at Honolulu, 1900-1952 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1900-1953 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images; Also at FindMyPast; index & images ($), MyHeritage; index & images ($)
 * 1900-1959 Honolulu, Hawaii, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1900-1959 at Ancestry; index & images ($)
 * 1903-1944 Hawaii, U.S., Index to Chinese Exclusion Case Files, 1903-1944 at FamilySearch; index only ($)
 * 1906-1977 Filipino Laborers Collection, 1906 to about 1977; index & images
 * 1909-1910 Hawaii, Harbin File - Russian Immigrant Laborers Index A-Z, 1909-1910 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1912-1946 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1920-1939 Germany, Bremen Emigration Lists, 1920-1939 to Hawaii at MyHeritge; index only ($)
 * 1941-1948 Hawaii, Passenger Lists, 1941-1948 at Ancestry; index & images ($)
 * 1942-1948 Hawaii, Passenger Lists of Airplanes departing Honolulu, 1942-1948 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1946 Hawaii, Index to Filipino Arrivals to Honolulu, 1946 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1947-1948 California, Airplane Passenger Lists from Honolulu, Hawaii, 1947-1948 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * Hawaii State Archives Index to Chinese Passenger Manifests
 * Hawaii State Archives Japanese Passenger Manifests Index
 * Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild at MyHeritge; index only ($)
 * Germans Immigrating to the United States at MyHeritage; index only ($)
 * Italians Immigrating to the United States - Hawaii at MyHeritage; index only ($)

Immigrants
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) ). 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
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) *Hawaii Collector of Customs, Ships' Passenger Manifests, 1843-1900 (SLC, Utah, 1976-1977)  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. These two pages were omitted in error from previous filming; *Hawaiian Sugar Planter's Association, Bureau of Labor and Statistics, Passenger Manifests of Filipino Contract Laborers (SLC, Utah, 1977-1978) 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

On Line Resources

 * 1874-1898 - at FamilySearch — index


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


 * 1900-1952 at FamilySearch — index and images


 * 1942–1948 at FamilySearch — index and images


 * 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