Conducting Genealogy Research in Hawaiʻi: Hawaiʻi Censuses

The census returns are available only for the years 1866, 1878, 1890, and 1896, and no one census is wholly complete. However, partial schedules giving names are available only for 1878 (Oahu, Maui and Hawaii), 1890 (all islands except Niihau) and 1896 (Honolulu). Only a limited number of census returns have survived from the nineteenth century. Then with territorial status, jurisdiction shifted to the United States government and the Islands became part of the U.S. census from 1900 and on.

The entirety of the 1940 Census is now available online.

Provides information about where and how to access census records.

This LibGuide, prepared by Librarian Dore Minatodani, focuses primarily on census data and reports relating to demography and population characteristics of Hawaiʻi. The LibGuide provides information for the period of 1830 through 2010.