Hawaii, Hansen's Disease Records, Kalaupapa Vital Records Card Index - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
Card index of vital records for lepers received or admitted to the leper settlement at Molokai. Also called the Hansen's disease records. The card index includes birth certificates of persons born at Kalaupapa, death records for the leper settlement at Molokai, and an index of marriages for patients with Hansen's Disease.

'''Community Trees - Hawaii. Kalawao. Kalaupapa. Date range: 1800s-1900s.'''

The purpose of the Kalaupapa project was to preserve, gather, source, and share information from the records of the patients, employees, volunteers, and kokua (helper) who resided in the Kalaupapa Leper Settlement on the Island of Molokai, Hawaii, beginning in 1865. A variety of records were used to glean information about these people. These records included arrival, birth, marriage, death, and burial records, and census population schedules. To view records click here.

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What Can These Records Tell Me?
The following information may be found in these records:
 * Names
 * Birth date
 * Marriage dates
 * Death dates

How Do I Search This Collection?
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 * Name of ancestor
 * Approximate date of birth
 * Place of residence

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I Found the Person I Was Looking For, What Now?
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 * Search the indexes of other port cities

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 * Collection Citation: "Hawaii, Hansen's Disease Records, Kalaupapa Vital Records Card Index, 1928-1947." Database. FamilySearch. https://FamilySearch.org : 19 April 2019. Hawaii State Archives, Honolulu.