Hawaiʻi State Archives digitizes indexes to hundreds of thousands of records

The Department of Accounting and General Services, Hawaiʻi State Archives division, has finished digitizing 64 volumes of indexes and uploaded them to its website for the public to use for free.

Files can be viewed online at https://digitalarchives.hawaii.gov/browse/parent/ark:70111/1Q6x.

  • Do you want to see who got married on Niʻihau between the years of 1849 to 1856?
  • Do you want to know who was buried at Makiki Cemetery between 1896 and 1954?
  • Do you want to research land holdings from over a century ago?

That’s just a fraction of what can be found at the Archives.

These indexes cover topics like genealogy, land, court records and more. It’s similar to an old-fashioned card catalogue, a traditional library tool in which one card represented one book or item…

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