Conducting Genealogy Research in Hawaiʻi: Birth, Death, and Marriage Records

Provided by Ulukau, the indexes were originally prepared by Hawaiʻi State Archives staff, and the information contained therein was extracted from a variety of records with genealogical information preserved by the Archives. The indexes contain:
--Marriage Records (1826-1929)
--Divorce Records (1848-1915)
--Wills (1852-1916)
--Probate Records
--Naturalization Records (1844-1894)
--Denization Records (1846-1898)
--Passports Records (1845-1874)

Available from BYU-Hawaii Library. Primarily from Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu Star-Bulletin and Honolulu Star-Advertiser, but also includes some obituaries printed in Kauai Garden Island News, Maui News, and Hawaii Tribune-Herald

The Vital Statistics Collection includes three types of records; births, marriages and deaths from 1826 to 1929. Presently all of Kauai, Molokai, Niihau and Maui vital statistic records are online.

Hamilton Library at UH-Mānoa hosts more than 300,000 fiches of biographical and subject information from clippings from the local newspapers. The clippings cover, approximately: 1920s through the mid-1980s. Search for the names you are interested in here. No electronic images are available at this time. The microfiche is arranged by surname.

Vital records (birth, death, civil union, marriage, and divorce certificates) for events that occurred in Hawaii are received and preserved by the Office of Health Status Monitoring, a unit of the Department of Health. In Hawaii, access to vital records is restricted by statute (HRS §338-18). The Office of Health Status Monitoring only has divorce records from July 1951 to December 2002. All other divorce records are kept in the court where the divorce took place. Records of events that occurred more than 75 years prior to the current year can be ordered by persons working on genealogy projects. Since genealogy requests are not considered urgent, they are not processed as priority requests.