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 Pacific Heights (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 Pacific Heights. 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.

Name Variations for Pacific Heights ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Pacific Heights: Pacific Hts. (in Canada, 'Hgts.' is the more common abbreviation.)

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

Newspapers Published in Pacific Heights ...

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 310 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pacific Heights.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pacific Heights, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pacific Heights.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Pacific Heights:

• 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 Pacific Heights ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pacific Heights.

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 Pacific Heights covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

• Royal Mausoleum
  (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Royal Mausoleum
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #103876 <2>
• City Memorial Park Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the City Memorial Park Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Honolulu.
  • The City Memorial Park Cemetery has also been known as:
  • City Memorial Park
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the City Memorial Park Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2358498 <2>
• O'ahu Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the O'ahu Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Honolulu.
  • The O'ahu Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Nuuanu Cemetery
  • Oahu Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the O'ahu Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #103852 <2>
• Nuuanu Memorial Park
  (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Nuuanu Memorial Park is a large cemetery that is located in Honolulu.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Nuuanu Memorial Park
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2194119 <2>
• Honolulu Memorial Park
  (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Honolulu Memorial Park is a large cemetery that is located in Honolulu.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Honolulu Memorial Park
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #150309 <2>
• Pauoa Hawaiian Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pauoa Hawaiian Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2486624 <2>
• Hook Chu Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hook Chu Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2232002 <2>
• Pauoa Chinese Christian Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Pauoa Chinese Christian Cemetery is located in Honolulu.
  • The Pauoa Chinese Christian Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Chinese Christian Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pauoa Chinese Christian Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2287479 <2>
• Uluhaimalama Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Uluhaimalama Cemetery is located in Honolulu.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Uluhaimalama Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2359836 <2>
• National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
  (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific has also been known as:
  • Punchbowl Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #103872 <2>
• Ket On Society Chinese Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Ket On Society Chinese Cemetery is located in Honolulu.
  • The Ket On Society Chinese Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Ket On Society Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ket On Society Chinese Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2287408 <2>
• Tong Sing Tong Chinese Society Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Tong Sing Tong Chinese Society Cemetery is located in Honolulu.
  • The Tong Sing Tong Chinese Society Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Tong Sing Tong Chinese Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tong Sing Tong Chinese Society Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2359798 <2>
• Continue List   (57 more) ...
  • Yee King Tong Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Yee King Tong Cemetery is located in Honolulu.
    • The Yee King Tong Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Yee King Tong Chinese Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Yee King Tong Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2359803 <2>
  • Ma'ema'e Chapel Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • The Ma'ema'e Chapel Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Maemae Chapel Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ma'ema'e Chapel Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #571628 <2>
  • Kawaiaha'o Church Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Kawaiaha'o Church Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Honolulu.
    • The Kawaiaha'o Church Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Kawaiaha'o Cemetery
    • Kawaiahao Cemetery
    • Kawaiahao Church Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kawaiaha'o Church Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #184593 <2>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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