Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

• That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
• We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
• On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Kula (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Kula. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Newspapers Published in Kula ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 15 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kula.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kula, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Kula.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Kula:

• Websites specific to Hawaii
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the Hawaii State Archives

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Hawaii
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Hawaii
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Hawaii
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Hawaii
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Hawaii

Cemeteries Near Kula ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kula.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Kula covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Kula, with the one closest to Kula listed first.

• Makawao Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Makawao Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Makawao Cemetery
• Maui Veterans Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Maui Veterans Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Maui Veterans Cemetery
• Puu Hele Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Puu Hele Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Puu Hele Cemetery
• Lihue Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lihue Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lihue Cemetery
• Kuau Catholic Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kuau Catholic Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1981908 <3>
• Kuau Evangelical Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Kuau Evangelical Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kuau Evangelical Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1981907 <3>
• Sunset Catholic Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunset Catholic Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1981909 <3>
• Paia Hawaiian Protestant Church Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Paia Hawaiian Protestant Church Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1981911 <3>
• Kaluna Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kaluna Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2561972 <3>
• Paia Hongwanji Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Paia Hongwanji Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1984873 <3>
• Rinzai Zen Mission Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rinzai Zen Mission Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2561967 <3>
• Holokai Family Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holokai Family Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2561970 <3>
• Continue List   (34 more) ...
  • Valley Isle Memorial Park
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Valley Isle Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Valley Isle Memorial Park
  • Kalaikahua Hou Church Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • The Kalaikahua Hou Church Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Haiku Protestant Church Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kalaikahua Hou Church Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1986179 <3>
  • Pauwela Hongwanji Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pauwela Hongwanji Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1994212 <3>

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Kula. See our List of 1890's Communities around Kula.

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Kula. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Hawaii: https://portal.ehawaii.gov/