Looking at my Mom's side of the family. My grandmother is a King, and I found this website of a distant relative with some narratives and pictures.
http://user.xmission.com/~jatwood/index.html

It's interesting that in Culbert King's bio that it talks about him serving amongst the Kanosh (round about Cedar City). http://user.xmission.com/~jatwood/CK-1836/__html/sld1.html http://user.xmission.com/~jatwood/TRK-1813/Rice%20&%20King%20Family%20Genealogy.pdf He became the bishop there and baptized 85 members of the tribe. (Interesting to me since I attend a native ward.)  There is also the story of his mother Matilda King singing a song in the native language of the area when some native men came into Cove Creek up in Fillmore. I am not to find of the lyrics as I see them as very reflective of the time and how the white LDS settlers viewed native people.

I decided to poke around BYU's missionary journals see if I could find anything of Culbert's. (I did find William King's mislabeled diary when I went in person there- misfiled under one of his wife's names. That was a great day. I was reading through the diary when I realized that 'she' could not have been administering in the priesthood duties...William King was brought to my attention by my mother's brother- Dale Bowers who served decades in the church genealogy department and helped develop the interface for indexing. He let me know about the book King's of the Kingdom since I research Iosepa- a Native Hawaiian Colony. William King served as a missionary in Hawai'i and brought Hawaiians up to Iosepa located in Tooele, Utah. He served as Mission President there for a year because he died suddenly.)

I found this entry- most likely of LDS men who were jailed for polygamy.
http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/SCMisc/id/7680

What's interesting is also named on this page is John Bowers (I have a great-great-great grandfather on my Grandpa Wes Bower's side named this), and Henry Dinwoodey (possible relation to our ancestor Charlotte Dinwoodey- the great-great grandmother of my granmother Nathele Bowers nee King).

I also see a Hugh Gowan there- possible relation of a Korean friend of mine hanai/adopted as a child by the Utah Gowans.

Here is a link to Charlotte Dinwoodey Hall Lee Cooney (last three names are from her marriages). http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=58315031
Can't find much on her 1st kane William Hall. Not sure if they had children. We come of the Lee line (she married him in 1849 in St. Louis, Missouri. He passed. Then in Salt Lake she married a soldier stationed at Fort Hall- where she is buried with their son Charles (Jr.)

Wainiha Nu'uhiwa

Wainiha is an area on Kaua'i.
My Nu'uhiwa people are from that area. (My paternal great-grandmother Esther Kameakaulana Nu'uhiwa was the daughter of Kia'aina Nu'uhiwa- her mother was a keale from Ni'ihau).

Today I read about Reverand David Nu'uhiwa. He was my great-great-great grandfather, and the first Hawaiian Assistant Minister at the Wai'oli Mission to Abner Wilcox/ Here's some information about him.
http://www.hawaiianencyclopedia.com/hanalei-history-part-2.asp

(To my family if you use the control + f and get the search box on the above link- type in Nuuhiwa and you will go to the section on him.)

His son Simeona Kia'aina Nu'uhiwa was born in Hanalei.
I found this newspaper article in The Garden Isle, Tuesday, Sept 11, 1917 about him losing his land due to back taxes and fees.

http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10524/28181/1917091101.pdf?sequence=1

This caused me to research the Hui Ku'ai 'Aina o Wainiha. I found this chapter written by haole Reverand John  M. Lydgate .

http://books.google.com/books?id=w0QKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&dq=Hui+Ku%27ai+%27Aina+o+Wainiha&source=bl&ots=Tp6UKmgNLU&sig=sZdT4lMXOMNBsbM2TkPHYo3EuLA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=b76SUNbnDOmMiALP3oDgAQ&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=hui%20kuai%20aina%20o%20wainiha&f=false

I always read all sources with a grain of salt. My ancestor was said to have been given an ill fitting broadcloth suit to sway him... Here's my recap of what was said.

This chaper also tells abt Kekauonohi who acquired Waihina in the Mahele borrowing 10 grand fr to outfit a schooner Manuokekai to sail to China w/sandalwood. Didin't come back....he then decided to sell his lands in Wainiha (where our Kia'aina Nu'uhiwa was) to make up the debt he owed. 71 families took it on- getting advances fr the plantation and scrimping...Dividing it up was described as a process of who was most intimidating- Kanaka-nui being mentioned as one of those who bullied their way to the best .ended in various ways...

Very interesting the part about 65 Menehune being counted in the Census at La'au.  During the time of Kaumuali'i his konohiki counted 65 menehune in La'au, Kaua'i during the census. (My tutu told me several times the same story of her and her sister riding the horse to school and seeing menehune working on it who ran away. very interesting.) 
The bit about the Manuokekai could be the basis of a move or a play. I wonder what happened to it- did the captain make his way to China, sell the good, then tae off with his Hawaiian crew? Or did it sink at sea in a storm?

Apparently the Hui in Wainiha was still around according to this Kuokoa artcile dated August 13, 1925 describing a meeting of the Hui.
http://papakilodatabase.com/papakilonupepa/cgi-bin/pnupepa?a=d&d=KNK19250813-01.1.5&cl=&srpos=0&dliv=none&st=1&e=-------en-20--1---IN-----
Wainiha now is a million dollar homes area.Initially, the members of the Hui did not know how they would make any money on the land, though those who held onto it later would realize the water was one way...Now it's all about location, location, location.

Here is some about Kia'aina also dancing at George Mossman's village. Meant to preserve Hawaiian culture, because it was not sponsored by the state or local governments, it also was for tourists, having that element of objectification.
http://books.google.com/books?id=AgH9xngze1cC&pg=PA365&lpg=PA365&dq=kiaaina+nuuhiwa&source=bl&ots=1ClzJ2mmd4&sig=wfdhlsFVZ9rNlw_q4NGebL6xTVU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5C2TUPTIE6PjiALsmoGgDA&sqi=2&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=kiaaina%20nuuhiwa&f=false

Poole Line Checklist

Between the two posts I've done on the Poole line these are the things I am trying to work out:

Who was Thomas C W Poole's first wife? Did they have children? (I could also look for the people of his second wife Rebecca Pihe.) My sister thought it was Ann Aylett(e)/Alyett- but I am not so certain that Francis Thomas Poole and T C W Poole are one and the same.
What about the second husband of Thomas' sister Annie Poole? Is he the same Pilipo who married a Makasilasila?
I should look for Beke under Peke, and Benjamin E. Poole under last name Pua as he is listed on this marriage record for his son Thomas.

Here is the 1910 Census with Tom and Lepeka, taken 27 April 1910 in Honolulu. They've been married for a year, She is listed as having had 1 child with 0 living. Is that for this marriage? Both are listed as having been married twice. She is Hawaiian, and he is Caucasian Hawaiian, with Dad born in England. ? My tutukane always said he was English, the record I found has a Benjamin Poole coming via the US.

Here's Annie Aylett Poole divorcing Thomas Poole for nonsupport in Honolulu in 1907.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1907-11-29/ed-1/seq-7/;words=Aylett+Poole?date1=1836&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=Hawaii&date2=1922&proxtext=Aylett+%2B+Pool&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=2

Seemed this started much earlier- maybe a separation initially or just a divorce proceeding never completed? Here we have the "F" listed in front of Thomas' name.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016413/1897-01-25/ed-1/seq-1/;words=Aylett+Poole?date1=1836&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=Hawaii&date2=1922&proxtext=Aylett+%2B+Pool&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=3

Annie Aylett Poole in 1901 is described as Hawaiian. She became the treasurer of the Kapiolani Maternity Home (which besides being supported by Kapiolani's heir Prince Kawananakoa was also supported by our KSBE's C.R. Bishop Trust. He was a good man.)

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047097/1901-02-20/ed-1/seq-3/;words=Aylett+Poole?date1=1836&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=Hawaii&date2=1922&proxtext=Aylett+%2B+Pool&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=1

Here's another article about the Kapiolani Maternity home mentioning Annie Aylett Poole. I wonder if she met with the officers of the Home who were the princes of our Hawaiian people.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047165/1901-02-20/ed-1/seq-3/;words=Aylett+Poole?date1=1836&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=Hawaii&date2=1922&proxtext=Aylett+%2B+Pool&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=0

Tom Poole is the Royalist who when chased/fired upon shot a member of the Citizens Guard, part of the fake Republic of Hawaii (a bunch of rich foreign businessmen who overthrew the Hawaiian Kingdom using threat of military, then kept rule via corruption). The man he shot was Charles Carter, the descendant of missionaries, a lawyer, and an aide to Sanford B. Dole.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015415/1895-01-25/ed-1/seq-3/;words=Pool+Tom?date1=1836&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=Hawaii&date2=1922&proxtext=Tom+Poole&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=9

Here is Thomas Poole getting called for jury duty.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1904-03-08/ed-1/seq-8/;words=Thomas+Poole+F?date1=1836&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=Hawaii&date2=1922&proxtext=F.+Thomas+Poole&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=0

My great- grandmother- Martha Kamaka Luaehu, was the daughter of John Luaehu Pauahi and Annie Elizabeth Poole. Her maternal grandparents were Benjamin E. Poole and grandmother was Beke, (according to information listed in the church pedigree database).
I think this is Benjamin's naturalization record that I found on Ulukau. (There is also a *William Poole listed. A relative?)

Whoever put him into the church database listed his father as Benjamin Pool. Notice different spelling on the last name....
The problem with this information in the church database is that no source was listed. Also, I have found that people will find the same name in a vital stat record, assume it is their relative, use the information- but it is the corresponding information (like relations, vital stat records which corroborate family stories) that help us know for sure that is our ancestral line.
The information listed in the church database looks like someone found the matching name and then input the vital stat information- so when I find the same records I could say, AHA! Found it. When actually, the vital stat info CAME fr that record  and I need more evidence.

This naturalization record is part of that evidence needed to build a picture and when used with other information, build a trustworthy link to an ancestral line.

My sister is the one who initially told me in fact our grandfather was a small bit English. Maybe haole is a better word- being more general, since we just know Benjamin E. Poole came via the USA. I'd grown up thinking my tutukane was half Hawaiian and half Korean. Even though he said he was English. He didn't look English to me. hahahaha. But 1/8 English is sometimes hard to see, as is my 1/8 Korean. My take on ancestry is the same as Isaiah's take on the House of Israel- if you are just a little part- you are still part- those are still your people. We don't exist without every single direct ancestor in our family tree.

I'd also heard a mean story that his family had tried to change their birth certificates to 'not' be thought of as Hawaiian, since in that era, there was a social hierarchy, and native, as in other places where the indigenous population was supplanted, was on the bottom. I'd heard they looked down on their Hawaiian ancestry I had never heard a reliable source corroborate this. But still when my tutukane used to say he was English I used to wonder if it was going along with that.

But when my sister said he was indeed part haole, I knew he was just telling the simple truth.

I did not find him in the Citizenship- Denization and Citizenship- Passports section.

I did find him in the First Circuit Court Divorces Index for 1851-1908. I don't understand the entry below the first. Was he petitioning to remarry Beke or someone else? I assumed this before.

And I believe this is him in the Deaths- Second Circuit- Probate Records. Really would like to see the original of this.See about heirs, etc. Then I would know if Beke were still living if they did in fact remarry.)

(How to read the records: The Hawaii State Archives holdings for Second Circuit Court Probate case files are organized in two numerical sequences. The first sequence begins with case 1 and ends with 1761. The second sequence begins with case A1 and ends with A149. Probate case files have been microfilmed and cataloged as MFL 55, available in the Hawaii State Archives Microform Research Room.

To look at a probate, please note MFL 55 and the probate number preceding the name of the individual you are researching.

For more information about Probate Case Files of the Second Circuit Court, please refer to the Inventory of Records of the Judiciary located in the Hawaii State Archives Research Room.)

*Here is a William Pool (notice the last name spelled differently) listed in the Letters of Denization from 1846-1898. His date matches the year of naturalization listed above.

Portuguese (Azores) Ancestors to Kaua'i

This lists my great-great-great grandparents and their children who arrived 1883 May 4 on the S.S. Abergeldie from the Azores to Hawai'i. Listed is Guilherme who is not listed in NFS, and missing are William, Jose, and Manoel (who are listed in NFS).

This may be my great-great-great grandparents Luis Joao Medeiros and Maria Augusta Nunes. Have to research this some more.

I got these records by going to the Native Hawaiian Genealogy Society External Links, then to Hawai'i Ship Passenger Records Manifest, then the Portuguese Passenger Records Manifests.

This is the 1900 census where my Medeiros Family is listed. Maria Pavao is listed as marrying a Perreira in NFS vs Pavao, and I think she is the same Maria listed on the HighFlyer above. It's weird that on the census her parents and she are listed as coming at different times...?...and the HighFlyer Manifest contradicts the Census information on her parents birth years. Hard to ever know if it was a transcription error in the manifest, or errors on the census. Both common.

This is a pic of the Koloa Sugar Plantation from the Hawai'i State Archives (lacking a date). This KHS site has also some historical documents related to it. My family lived in Koloa and the earlier census records I've seen list them as working there. My tutu said her father Louis John Medeiros was a luna who was murdered when she was two. That he came across some workers gambling in the field. I know his father, John Louis Medeiros, was a luna (these were plantation managers) according to earlier census records, and Louis John Medeiros started off as a chauffer, I assume for the big boss...?...She remembers living in the luna house and having a maid and bathing in a hot Japanese style furo, with her Portuguese relatives making bread in the outside oven. But she says all of that changed when her father died, due to conflict with her dad's family and her mother who she says they didn't really approve of because she was a Mormon and Hawaiian. His wife, my great-grandmother was Esther Kameakaulana Nu'uhiwa-a Keale-Nu'uhiwa born on a wa'a between Ni'ihau and Kaua'i. In her latter years, my tutu became very interested in her Portuguese ancestry and joined a Portuguese club. I had never really heard much of this side of her family before then. Mostly meeting mainly the Ni'ihau side.

I did search through the Hawaii State Vital Statistics Collections and another favorite database of mine Papakilo run by OHA for Medeiros family. No luck with my direct ancestors.

The lady whose been running the Portuguese Hawaiian Genealogy and HeritageWeb Site since 2001 which had a link to this research guide and also a list of genealogical aids for researching Azores ancestry and also runs her separate blog where she documents her Portuguese ancestry research, said that looking for records of church's in the area our ancestors lived would be a good idea.

My tutu says her dad's side was Catholic. (Which makes sense, obviously.) And that she herself was baptized in the Catholic church (which does so very early) though her mother was a staunch Mormon and she was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints when she became of age. (We don't baptize children until they are at least 8 in the hopes that they understand the covenant.)

Anyway, I found a site that said St. Raphael's church in Koloa is the oldest on the island, so maybe when I go home next I will pay them a visit. Of course, what I need to do is talk to my Portuguese family still living. (Who my father has the contact information for.) Take my own advice I give when teaching, collaboration brings the richest rewards.

Alvah Beeman, Sally Burtts, Daughters & Husbands

This is from my maternal grandmother's line.
[mdn before stands for maiden name; names after that are married surnames, #ed if more than one marriage]

 Me---> My Mother ---> Grandmother mdn King 1.Bowers----> Lottie Ethel mdn Noble 1. King 2. Crandall ----> Benjamin Noble---> Mary mdn Beeman 1.Noble---> Alvah Beeman and Sally Burtts

Mary Beeman married Joseph Bates Noble who is pretty well known in LDS church history. Among other things he was the bishop and bodyguard of Joseph Smith. He also was the first sealer at the Nauvoo Temple and married Joseph Smith Jr to J Bates Noble sister in law- Louise or Louisa Beeman, J. Smith's first plural wife.
When Joseph Smith was in Liberty jail, J Bates visited him numerous times. He was given Joseph Smith's sword when Joseph Smith was on his way to Carthage. J Bates Noble had asked Brother Joseph Smith if he could stand in for him or accompany him. The house now titled The Lucy Mack Smith House (Lucy mack was Joseph Smith's mother) was once titled The Joseph Bates Noble House. He built it and gave it to her.
My log is often shorthand because I research so often, so much, & so many different lines that when I blog abt ancestors I mainly do it to collate resources and relations

Here is what I posted on my relatives FB walls (btw- I make many important genealogy finds by collaborating, contacting people via FB).

My posting to Grandma Bowers: 
Larry Maddock a distant cousin of ours up in SLC posted pics here of Joseph Bates Noble. And I read on another post of his that Joseph's father-in-law Alvah helped hide the golden plates at one point. Not sure about that. but reading more.http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSmpid=47151140&GRid=12541449&

Comments: 
me: This link has more on Alvah Beaman and then his daughter Mary (our line) wife of Joseph Bates Noble and Louis who married Joseph Smith and then after he passed and she lived with her sister Maty and Joseph Bates and they came West in thje Jedediah Grant company, Brigham Young.
says my Cousin: Joseph Bates Noble was a bishop in Nauvoo and on April 5, 1841 he sealed his sister-in-law Louise Beaman to Joseph Smith as the first official recorded plural wife.
Yes, I loved reading about him in a book Grama Bowers has written by another close descendant...That Beaman/Behman line is pretty interesting too. Alvah was neighbors with Oliver's siblings when lived in Grovelan, NY. Well to do. though worked at divining with the Smiths. His girls were all very educated. I guess they found good matches- Artemisa married Erastus Snow, Louisa married two prophets, and Mary had our Joseph Bates. I guess if people were members in that era- pretty closely connected at some point since the church was much smaller....I'm trying to see what there is on Alva's wife- Sally Burtts.
Me: Here's Alvah and sally's daughter & J. Bates wife Mary 
http://www.boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/MNoble.html

Autobiography of Mary A. Noble (1810-1900)

www.boap.org

My father was born Permolberry, Massachusetts, May 22, A.D., 1775. My mother wa

s born Hartford, Connecticut, June 17, A.D., 1775. My father and mother were married August 18, A.D. 1796. My eldest Brother Isaac M. Beman was born December 27, A.D. 1797. My oldest sister, Betsy B. Beman, was born M...

I'm very happy I found the above link to Mary's journal autobiography since we need to hear more stories of the sisters for goodness sake!

What's also neat is that Alvah met and had Parley P. Pratt (poet behind many of our cherished hymns, Church Leader, missionary) over at his home. Parley P. Pratt is a direct ancestor of a sweet friend in my ward. Here's my posting about that:

 Discovered CB's kupuna/ancestor Parley P. Pratt (missionary, poet, leader) visited our kupuna Alvah Beeman while Joseph Smith was over. (Alvah worked w/h

im as a rodsman). Alvah's daughter Louisa married Joseph (our other kupuna Joseph Bates Noble performed the sealing- J. Bates' wife was Louisa's sister). After Joseph was murdered & Louisa moved West w/our line (her sister Mary and Joseph Bates Noble- if you ever go back and see the Luck Mack Smith home- actually that placard used to read Joseph Bates Noble home- he built it and gave it to Joseph's mother) Louisa remarried brother Brigham. They all were good friends, as makes sense back in the day when the church was small, and we had to stick together....Poor thing, Louisa. her two sets of twins died as babies. Good thing we absolutely believe the family can be eternal and in the next life we will raise little ones lost in this one.

Tracking Down the Kims & notes on Cali trip

So my grandfather was one of many children. (15 total I believe. ?- though not all survived) The children of Kamaka/Martha Luaehu and Yun Kiu Kim.

Yun Kiu Kim is listed as Yun You Kim on great Uncle Harold's Birth 1919 record, Yong Kin Kim in the 1920 Census, Young Kim in the 1930 Census, Yun Kiu Kim in the 1940 Census.

We can see how having enumerators and vital stat recorders who were not familiar with the ethnic backgrounds of local people makes genealogy a bit more challenging.
(This is why I encouraged people to index their home states when we were working on indexing the 1940 Census. If we and our families are generationally from the area, we might make less errors in transcribing names which seem typical to us, though very different to outsiders.)

It looked like the enumerator's name in the 1940 Census was Anthony Tam....Interesting that they started to use the PH label then- Part Hawaiian, (maybe he could tell- though earlier they would use the label AH- Asian Hawaiian or CH- Caucasian Hawaiian- when they could tell- sometimes they couldn't). And their names are more accurate- because maybe Anthony was local? Whereas, the previous enumerators might have not been? (They have haole names- though again, there were many many many hapa haole Hawaiians with haole surnames at this time. Though I have a feeling that people from the mainland might have been more likely to be performing the Federal Census than local hapa Hawaiian people.)

The other discrepancy is when Great-Grandpa Kim came to Hawai'i- 1904 on the 1920 Census and 1906 in the 1930 Census. Probably hard  for him to recall on the spot. Or maybe the enumerators had a harder time understanding people- pidgin speakers, second language speakers?

I think I did find a possible match on a ship coming from Korea via Japan in 1906. Will have to add that information here.

I had asked a BYU student who was doing research in South Korea on North Korean defectors (our family is from North Korea) about genealogy. Of course, he was just a student, not a North Korean genealogy specialist.
I attended his presentation since my maternal cousin was also presenting in the symposium, and because of our Korean family connection.
Having watched several very disturbing documentaries on North Korea since the Korean War era (mass starvation, people desperate to get out killed by the government, and total brainwashing- in fact many defectors who are tricked by relatives into defecting- not really wanting to leave are astounded by the lies their government tells them about the outside. Media from the outside is banned, and again rigging receptions for illegal radio/tv waves is punishable by death or work camp assignment which is basically, death). My interest was and has been piqued....
He said probably write directly to the North Korean government since they seem to like people claiming North Korean ancestry and keep good records.
I believe this with regards to record keeping, however, I thought it might be difficult since under Chinese and Japanese occupation Korean names were changed during the cultural oppression.
(Another random interesting thing I learned about Korea was that explorers who went there prior to Chinese and Japanese occupation said it was the MOST oppressive country  with regards to women's rights- more so than what the West would think in regards to Middle Eastern countries- they included sketches of the public coverings women had to wear- looked like a big boxy tent. Anyway....)

I did try the Naturalization records in San Bruno/ South San Francisco (where records from Hawaii are also stored) on my most recent trip to California this past summer to see if harabaji was listed there. But prior to going, I didn't know that immigrants who came to Hawaii prior to statehood were just automatically made citizens when Hawaii became a state. Of course, that makes sense.
Otherwise there would be piles and piles of red tape in forms since there were so many immigrants to Hawai'i.
So it was a  no go on a naturalization record potentially containing more genealogical data for our great grandfather Yun Kiu Kim.***
The next step would be to order a copy of his Social Security application which might have some information.

One last thought- it is weird that they listed Hawaiians as Aliens as in immigrants on the census. ??? That would be like us listing every US born person as an alien/immigrant on our most recent census.


These are my notes from re-reviewing the census records today.

1920 Census

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54?cc=1488411 Huelo, Maui, Makawao on 11th & 12th of January 1920 by Edward Smythe

Parents listed as Yong Kin Kim and Martha

	Household	Gender	Age	Birthplace
SELF	Yong Kin Kim	M	36	Korealisted as Alien arrive 1904 work as part of Korean Society occupation Police?
WIFE	Martha Kim	F	26	Hawaii
SON	Francis Kim	M	6	Hawaii yes school
SON	Joseph Kim	M	5	Hawaii no school
SON	Joe Kim	M	3	Hawaii
SON	Alfred Kim	M	1	Hawaii
	Martha Bissen	F	8	Hawaii niece, attends school,says Caucasian Hawaiian, father born Germany speaks German, mother born Hawaii

On the same street is Mary Taua 46  and husband Lei Taua 48 carrier for US Mail, with son Lei Jr. 23 Engineer for ? Engine, daughter Katherine 18, and granddaughter Mary Kahalehoe? 8 [in 1910 Census which has a Mary Taua living with Watson people, there are also Kahelekula's living in the Makawao neighborhood} I mention them because our family marries into this line.


1930 Federal Census
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HI, Maui, Makawao Enumeration District 5-28, Rep District 3, Precinct 13, Sheet 13-A
April 16th, 1930 by John Swiffen 
Huelo, House # 205, 221 house visited, 229 family spoken to

Parents listed as Young Kim and Martha Kim

Young 43 Pineapple cannery, Yes rd/write, No school, no English ,Parents born Korea, came 1906, naturalization "AL"
Martha 36 Yes rd/write/speak English, parents born Hawaii, looks like erased AL (since she is FROM Hawaii)
Francis 17, not in school, yes rd/write/speak as all other kids, Asian Hawaiian as all other kids, Pineapple Cannery
Joseph 16, not in school, Pineapple cannery (none of the other children listed as working)
Harold 13, yes in school
Alfred 11 yes in school
John 8 yes in school
Moses 3 2/12 not in school
Katherine 5 not in school
Elizabeth 2 1/2 not in school
Walter 4/12

1940 Census started listing people as Part Hawaiian
Taken April 4th, 1940 by Anthony Tam
Tract M-6, Makawao Judicial District, Representative District 3, Maui, Hawaii Territory, United States 

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parents listed as Yun Kiu Kim and Martha Kim

	Household	Gender	Age	Birthplace
Head	Yun Kiu Kim	M	54	Korea General farm Laborer
Wife	Martha Kim	F	46	Hawaii
Son	Alfred Kim	M	21	Hawaii Pineapple
Son	John Kim	M	18	Hawaii Pineapple
Daughter	Katherine Kim	F	15	Hawaii
Son	Moses Kim	M	13	Hawaii
Daughter	Elizabeth Kim	F	12	Hawaii
Son	Walter Kim	M	10	Hawaii
Son	Wallace Kim	M	8	Hawaii

Same house has Mary Taua

	Household	Gender	Age	Birthplace
Head	Mitchel Watson	M	48	Hawaii
Wife	Katherine Watson	F	40	Hawaii
Daughter	Wilhelmina Watson	F	4	Hawaii
Niece	Mary Tau'A	F	13	Hawaii
Cousin	Katherine Kaholokula	F	6	Hawaii

Hawaii, Births and Christenings, 1852-1933," Alfred Soo Wan Kim, 1919

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Name:	Alfred Soo Wan Kim
Gender:	Male
Baptism/Christening Date:
Baptism/Christening Place:
Birth Date:	28 Mar 1919
Birthplace:	KAILUA, MA, Hawaii
Death Date:
Name Note:
Race:
Father's Name:	Yun Kiu Kim
Father's Birthplace:
Father's Age:
Mother's Name:	Martha Luehu

Hawaii, Births and Christenings, 1852-1933," Harold Su Pok Kim, 1916

https://familysearch.org/pal:/

MM9.1.1/FWS7-H8K

Name:	Harold Su Pok Kim
Gender:	Male
Baptism/Christening Date:
Baptism/Christening Place:
Birth Date:	11 Aug 1916
Birthplace:	OLOWALU, LAHAINA, MA, Hawaii
Death Date:
Name Note:
Race:
Father's Name:	Yun You Kim
Father's Birthplace:
Father's Age:
Mother's Name:	Martha Luehu

ETC Mary and Lei Taua 1910 Census- I already posted this, but again, our family married into the Tau'a line so we see why- proximity, proximity since the families are on several Census records together as neighbors in Makawao.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/



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	Household	Gender	Age	Birthplace
SELF	Lei Taua	M	38y	Hawaii
WIFE	Mary Taua	F	36y	Hawaii
SON	Benjamin Taua	M	19y	Hawaii
SON	Lei Taua	M	14y	Hawaii
DAU	Catherine Taua	F	11y	Hawaii
	Samuel Makaena	M	14y	Hawaii
	Makaho Kiha	F	70y	Hawaii

On bottom Has Anne Poole's 2nd HUSBAND Philip Nawai Kaiwi and my great Grandmother Kamaka and her sister Maihui and brother Joseph listed as step children.  Mom is 55, step dad 39. Kamaka is 16 which matches her Kupuna Martha's birth year.



***[By the way, the good thing about going to the archives, where I decided to put my hiking gear in a shopping cart and push it there from the train station, then have the construction workers watch it while I went inside, was that a woman sitting next to me who could've passed for any number of different ethnic backgrounds- as many of us who are multiracial- was having trouble with the fiche reader. So I helped her and her daughter and learned they were native people from the Central Coast. I actually had never met any native people from that area despite living and working there for 4 years.
They were trying to find her grandmother's records.
These California tribes have a hard going time when it comes to genealogical research- since their people were forced to Missions in the North and Rancheras in the South and mixed in with other tribes- so hard to keep your language, identity, etc.(Kind of like what happened to African slaves- they were intentionally divided  and mixed with other Africans of different tribes who spoke different languages so as no avoid unity and possible rebellion.)
The woman and her grown daughter didn't have luck but I could help her find some guides on familysearch.org which were very useful.
They were a bit tripped out that I was LDS, which is often the case. People always think I'm too cool to be Mormon. hahahaha. I told her it was probably a Hawaiian Mormon thing...just kidding. Sort of. ;)

So it was not a complete waste of time. And When I did eventually go down to the Central Coast- I happened to go during their Pow Wow season. Very interesting since attending a Native American ward we've been to several pow wows out here. Different experience all together there since they had a female drumming group, and their fry bread was- hmmm....not soft and fluffy. hahahaha. More like a frisbee, but probably just that vendor.

 But I learned more about the Central Coast Native people talking to the people there, then made a visit up to the Santa Cruz Mission, which in all my years living in that county I had never been to.
My daughter actually started the Mission tour then left because she was upset in reading the history. I have to agree with her.. Whitewashed the reality of the 'slavery' period by saying instead that some of the native people were forcibly moved to the mission, where they earned food and lodging, not money, for their labor. Yeah,  uh, that's called slavery. hahaha.
Being of European ancestry also, I don't have a problem with people just telling like it is- it doesn't hurt my European ancestry feelings, and I wish people who curated exhibits would stop rewriting history to protect feelings.....Every generation, EVERYWHERE, has it's narrow minded views and unenlightened/hateful practices, as well as specific individuals who are more hideous than others. It's best not to dismiss the history of those who were oppressed by creating an alternate version. I really dislike when people do this.

But I did enjoy the Mission's historicity, and learned about what happened to it subsequently- in fact a native family lived there for awhile after the Spaniards left, and then some transplanted Irish. I really liked their displays on the Ohlone. They used reeds to make their home and boats- sort of like the Rapa Nui people. ANd their fishing methods weren't unlike Hawaiians.

Anyway, while in Santa Cruz also ran into a woman in our old family Ward who discovered recently she was Cherokee. She looks like a Nordic goddess- but, like all native people, mixing happens.
I could also direct her to some Cherokee resources... Needless to say, my calling did not seem to get away from me during my stint in California. But I did miss our home ward/ congregation here in Utah terribly. Though they might be an ocean away from the community I grew up in, they do feel like family. I love their spirit, way and stories.]

Research Log- O'Sullivan/ Boyle New Zealand

We have been stuck on certain family lines of my daughter's New Zealand Irish immigrant line.
Her great-great grandfather was John William O'Sullivan who passed in 1930, and was married 4 November 1896 Shortland, Thames, New Zealand to Susan Josephine Boyle (1868-1915).


That's where my information ends on the O'Sullivans...
I did find some information on their daughter Eileen (which I already have) here. It's odd that her husband's (James Kenneth Mc Lean's) grandfather is listed as  Alexander B McNab (1837-1922) in NFS.


I have had most of my success in finding information on her New Zealand family through a collaboration with a very distant cousin found on geneaology.com, & then with the online births deaths marriages archives.
Here was some help on the Boyle line:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/r/o/Kylie-Brooker-2/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0253.html


This is off of that line and I will have to come back to it since i stayed up til 5am inputting...whew...https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Search/Search.aspx?Path=%2fqueryEntry.m%3ftype%3dbirths#SearchResults

Research Log- Luaehu & Poole lines

So again at the Rootstech Conference this month they talked about using a blog to log your genealogy research.
I do use a google spreadsheet to log, but will post something here.
I am looking at my Luaehu people. My great grandmother Martha Kamaka Luaehu had a sister Victoria.
One of her kane was a man by the name of Henry Bissen. I found this link on him. http://hawaiianroots.yuku.com/topic/628#.T0e8yfEge5I
As noted above, in new.familysearch they do list another wife Lilia Ka'eha Pa'akaula, and my Aunty Victoria also had another husband, Robert Kaholokula. Their marriage license is shown here. http://archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/collect/vitalsta/index/assoc/HASH01f6/d2d74a6e.dir/doc.pdf
Anyway, new.familysearch lists an incredible amount of children by both Victoria's husbands (8 with Henry and 12 with Robert) so I am trying to authenticate what's that through vital stat records.


On another interesting note, Martha Kamaka Luaehu's mother Anna/ Anne Elizabeth Poole was remarried after her first Luaehu marriage! I never knew that.
Someone on new.familysearch did enter it into the church database- scholer101@###.com (I'll have to contact them).
I found this on the 1910 Makawao, Maui census. She was listed as being 55 years. Philip Nawai Kaiwi was listed as being 39. (I guess there is still hope for me. hahahaha, Men my age don't tend to like me. But younger men do. hahahahaha)

They'd been married 4 years, and her children, his step- Kamaka (my great grandmother), Maehue (spelled Maihui here), Joseph were with them, as well as her grandchildren Thomas Bissen, and Luaehu Bissen.

Plus a 1/2 German school teacher boarder Mary Miller, James Naniho who is listed as being 8 mos old, and Puhi, a 90-year-old man....On the same street was her daughter Mary Taua, her husband Lei, their sons Benjamin and Lei, and daughter Catherine.


The baby in their household may have belonged to another household on their street. Here's page 1

Well, 8 hours later, I have made some more discoveries.
Someone out there was aware of Anne's 2nd marriage to Philip Kaiwi.


And, I also found an entry for a Pilipo Kaiwi listed as the father of a child Malie Kahaunaele. (Here's another link with only Malie and Young Whan Lee.) Is this Pilipo the same man? The marriage of his daughter was in Maui where our Philip is from and Anne lived. His daughter was born in 1901, and our Philip married Anne around 1904 according to the 1910 Census.
Malie's mother is listed as Sarah Makahilasila, perhaps a misspelling of Makahilahila And I found more information on this Sarah here. On this page apparently taken from the Cole Jensen collection, the father could be surnamed Pilipo or Kahaunaele- the latter being the surname for the daughter on the marriage record.
I found a Josephine Malia Pilipo, daughter of Sarah Makahilahila and Pilipo on new.familysearch. Pilipo the father is listed as being born in 1874 on Maui, and marrying Sarah on 1899 at Ulaino, Maui.
This was the source info:
Source type: Other, Media type: Microfilm, Repository name: Family History Library, Repository address: 35 N West Temple Street, Repository city: Salt Lake City, Repository state: UT, Repository country: USA, Repository postal code: 84150, Call number: 1396286, Event date: , Sheet number: 005, Reference number: 1396286, Batch number: F864077, Serial number: 00056, Time period: ?-?, Contributor: jpilipo229364, Contributor of repository: FCH
If the last name is Pilipo (and of course, not really having surnames until the European descent settlers came- it's understandable if they used different family names) - could this Malie Pilipo of Honolulu be a relative?


If I could find a birth record for Philip and Malie (the daughter listed on the marriage record) that would help. I did find a Kaiwi born in 1871 (same date as my great great gma's 2nd husband)  listed in new.familysearch as the son of father Kaiwi born in 1843 and mother Hoopauai born in 1847, but there is no source listed.


I'm also interested in finding a death record for Anne nee Poole/ Luaehu/ Kaiwi. Haven't found it yet.


I did uncombine 4 records in NFS that had been integrated with her brother Thomas C W Poole. (He was born in Hawai'i, and those were of someone born, marrying, and having children with someone in England).
He shows up on this 1920 Kahului, Wailuku, Maui Census with a grand-nephew(the son of Victoria & Henry Bissen) William Bissen. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12063-117494-21?cc=1488411
Thomas is a 66-year-old Hawaiian widow. His Caucasian Hawaiian grand-nephew is 21 and a Foreman of a locomotive. They looked to be living in a predominantly Japanese neighborhood.


I found this marriage record for Thomas- his dad is listed as Benj E "Pua" instead of Poole, and mother "Peke" same as Beke or Rebecca. It says his marriage status is divorced, so I will have to look for his first wife.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FW8C-F5Q

On the 1910 Census in Honolulu City taken April 27, 1910, we see that this marriage was the 2nd for both of them, and that his wife had had a child but it passed. Also, noted is that it says Thomas' father was born in England.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11559-28616-79?cc=1727033

Here is what I believe to be the death record for Benjamin E Poole. his film number is ML 55 505.
http://www.ulukau.org/gsdl2.7/cgi-bin/algene?e=d-0algene--00CL1%2e20--0-0--010---4------0-1l--1en-Zz-1---20-about-Poole--00031-0000utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=algene&cl=CL1.20&d=D20-000021

On the Pedigrre Resource File which is now searchable in 2012, I saw my sister submitted whom would be the 1st wife of Thomas Poole. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/S51T-3Z2
I have looked in vain on FS for vital stat records, and had it pull up in Ancestry.com but since I am not a subscriber- I'll have to wait until I go into the FHC tomorrow.


Here it shows a petition for divorce between Annie Aylett Poole and Thomas Poole (Francis Thomas Poole). hmmm....and above that is a petition for Thomas' father Benjamin to remarry his mother Beke....interesting.
http://www.ulukau.org/gsdl2.7/cgi-bin/algene?a=d&d=D14-000116&gg=1&v=2

And here is a link which I think has the naturalization date for Ben E Poole out of the US (vs England...?) http://www.ulukau.org/gsdl2.7/cgi-bin/algene?a=d&d=D29-000078&gg=1&v=2

His death I assume http://www.ulukau.org/gsdl2.7/cgi-bin/algene?e=d-0algene--00CL1--0-0--010---4------0-1l--1en-Zz-1---50-about---00031-0002utfZz-8-00&a=d&d=D20-000021&gg=1

Some acreage to T C W Poole http://www.ulukau.org/cgi-bin/hpn?a=d&d=HASH01a7fcdcc2e0d59bf454dbf1&v=2


I also found these records whom might be a relative of Annie Aylett's:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FWZR-R2V

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FWZJ-P65

https://familysearch.org/search/records/index#count=20&query=%2Bsurname%3AAylett~&collection_id=1674811

An this one, a hundred years later:
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/SSDI/individual_record.asp?recid=575248693&lds=3&region=-1&regionfriendly=&frompage=99

And this one-
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gsfn=Annie%20Aylett&gsln=Hoapili&gss=seo&ghc=20

I noticed some Pooles on this line- the mother coming from California, having given birth to the baby in Hawai'i...interesting. They are in the area our Poole 'ohana were living in on Maui so maybe some extended family? The only other person listed as married in the same household is the Portuguese man Richards listed after the baby. He came from the Azores. (Our Kau'ai Portuguese family is from the Azores, as are most Portuguese immigrants to Hawai'i during this era.) The mother is listed as E. L. Poole and the son as C. P. Poole. The next year there is a child Elvira born- the father lsited as E. L. Poole and the mother Luria...? https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FW92-77N

To Turn the Hearts

A lot of talk at the last Rootstech Conference held in Salt Lake City recently swirled around the 1940 Census. (Check out the embedded link- they posted videos of some of the presentations, and also made the syllabi which you usually have to purchase at genealogy conferences available as a download.)

The US Census Bureau and National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) have coordinated efforts to make the 1940 Census available for public viewing, Monday, April 2, 2012. 

That's just around the corner.

If you are LDS, our church has encouraged members to sign up in preparation to index the 1940 census. (Transcribing it, thus making it searchable so we can find our ancestors.) 

The plan is to have the entire 1940 Census indexed within 6 months of its release.

That's a pretty challenging goal!

I signed up to help index the 1940 Census out of Hawai'i, and encourage people to do the same for their home states. 

With Hawai'i, I've found if the Census agents weren't familiar with the different languages (we being a very diverse state), they often misspelled names of people and locations. 

AND I have noticed the same for people transcribing records (though the church actually has a high accuracy rate since they have a check system in place- meaning another person will double check your transciprtion).

 It think it's better if people familiar with the types of names and places of their locale, work on their home areas, so sign up!...Plus, you never know if you come across family while indexing. :)

As far as indexing goes, I actually only started indexing. Mainly because my mother, who lives in Star, Idaho, started. (Her nearest temple is closed, so to stay involved in genealogy she started indexing after taking a class her ward taught.)

In the past the tendency was to introduce Family History by having people index, and having our youth focus on indexing. It's a very simple process to get started. You can take a test drive. And if you need in person help, come to your local Family History Center. (You'll be fine, but sometimes we feel better when someone is sitting right there in case we have questions.)

Not until the Assistant Coordinator to Family History in our ward, Sister Laughlin, also taught a lesson (we take turns - so all the Family History Consultants have an opportunity to share their insights. You might want to consider that since different people will reach different members of the ward) and talked about indexing did I realize something cool about indexing.

Indexing gives people instant gratification so they want to do more indexing, AND since they learn indexing technology quickly, they realize they are capable of using the technology to do their Family History.

Of course, indexing serves a vital purpose in helping people find their dead by making transcribed vital statistic records searchable.

For us as members to prepare ordinances for the temple, having vital statistic information available is essential.

I also found, after indexing some Arkansas military registration cards with Sister Browning, another Family History Consultant in our ward, that it makes us feel closer when we do it together, and we learn interesting era information. 

Plus, the more you work with old records, the easier it will be to work with old records related to your family.

My deciphering of flowery cursive handwriting has improved enormously over the years in working with vital statistic records for my own family and researching for others.

I have to admit, this is a change in my attitude. I have always been more interested in people actually doing their own family history, and pushed for the youth to do that as well. (Our youth are capable of anything. Since so much of Family History nowadays involves a comfort with technology, they have a leg up on us in that area. My kid was changing my screen backgrounds to Piccachu at 2 years old, whereas I struggled to figure out how to change it back. I think the main thing youth need from the older generations is the spirit of Elijah- that strong desire to know and seek after our kupuna/ancestors...What a difference knowing their family heritage makes for our youth! To see our individual choices as part of a legacy often changes how we use our choices. We realize we are not just isolated anonymous beings whose choices affect just ourselves. We realize they affect our past, present, and future family.)

Having Elder Bednar speak on the importance of youth doing their actual genealogy this past October General Conference and then Elder Yamashita of the 70 who came for our most recent Stake Conference also reiterate impressions I've had and show me the To Turn the Hearts DVD (created a year ago, but it wasn't made available til the end of January 2012 to view. I was so happy when I saw this at the end of January) confirmed those feelings I have about how Family History affects the living too.

I am so thankful for the clarity of the message in this DVD which powerfully shows how Family History strengthens and heals the living by following real families and individuals with real struggles over time.

We had planned to have a Family Search representative come and hold a stake wide fireside for the Bishoprics and auxiliary leaders of all the wards this month before the DVD came out, and hope still to do that.

In a way I am glad that we waited since now we can just show them the DVD! My copies of the DVD are disappearing from our ward as the other Family History Consultants in the stake borrow them as they wait for their wards to order them.

Mainly, I can see how all wards, being so concerned with the challenges our living  families face might see Family History as another program which falls lower on the priority list....

I am so thankful that the To Turn the Hearts DVD shows how actually Family History accomplishes the goals  Bishops and auxiliary leaders have in helping living families. 

Genealogy helps heal living families.

It's that simple.

Of course, we, living within a few minutes of the temple, are very fortunate to be able to take advantage of the temple on a regular basis.

I went the other night with Sister Yazzie in my Ward, taking an ancestor of my daughter's.

While Sister Yazzie and I went to do a session with the Midsingles, my daughter Sweet did baptisms. 

It was awesome.

Sweet and I came out feeling so happy and relaxed and positive. Such a great night!

The amazing thing about the temple, is how it does put things into a more eternal perspective, and the petty feelings and worries we have take their proper place, allowing us to be able to feel hope gratitude, and peace about life.

But temple worship is just part of the equation. Temple attendance needs to go hand in hand with Family History work. Both are rewarding in and of themselves, but people who have combined them, know how profound their experiences become- How much closer they feel as a living family (especially as you attend the temple with family members and with names of your kupuna/ancestors- I try to go with Sweet to do baptisms. We are never too old to do baptisms and recall our own baptisms and baptismal covenant.:), how more connected they feel with their kupuna, and how much closer they feel as a family as a whole (living and dead) to Heavenly Father.

I know it doesn't seem fair to people who don't live nearby a temple. I do remember as a child the sacrifice Ho'olehua Ward members back on Moloka'i had to make to attend the temple- airline tickets, shipping or renting a car, finding a place to stay, food, etc.

It makes me feel like I should make sure to take advantage of the temple here. How grateful I should be. Once a month to go to the temple was a goal I had in California. Once a week is what we have here. 

We don't always make it. Sometimes we go more, sometimes we go less. But it's good to have a goal and make time for that peace.

If you don't live by a temple, even if you don't have a temple recommend, you can still participate in temple work as a member. Get a new.familysearch.org account, start your family history. Submit names directly to the temple for ordinance work to be done, or if you want, print off the request and have your ward family or dear friends help by taking the names. (Gosh, I love the people who have taken names for us. Missionaries in our stake, friends, members in our ward. I feel close to them when they serve my family.)

And you can index!

This is what my mom does since the Boise Temple has been closed for renovations.

Our ward goal is 500 batches this month....This might be a challenge since nobody knows that's our ward goal. Hahaha. But they will by this weekend. And it's totally doable.