Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Pulu. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Pulu to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Pulu, please Contact Us.
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 Pulu (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 Pulu. 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.
Cemeteries Near Pulu ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pulu.
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.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Pulu - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Pulu covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Pulu, with the one closest to Pulu listed first.
- Mountain View Community Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Old Japanese Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Japanese Cemetery
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Old Japanese Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Old Japanese Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<2> to the southwest of Keaau.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2322344 <3>
- Kurtistown Filipino Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Ola'a First Hawaiian Church Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Kurtistown Jodo Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Kaumana Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Hilo Chinese Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- East Hawaii Veterans Cemetery #1
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the East Hawaii Veterans Cemetery #1
- To give a relative sense of its location, the East Hawaii Veterans Cemetery #1 is located in Hilo.
- The East Hawaii Veterans Cemetery #1 has also been known as:
- Veterans Cemetery #1
- Veterans Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1493428 <3>
- Haili Congressional Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Homelani Memorial Park
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Homelani Memorial Park
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Homelani Memorial Park is a large cemetery that is located in Hilo.
- The Homelani Memorial Park has also been known as:
- Homelani Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #103858 <3>
- East Hawaii Veterans Cemetery #2
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (11 more) ...
- St. Joseph Catholic Church Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Onekahakaha Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Pulu. See our List of 1890's Communities around Pulu.
Newspapers Published in Pulu ...
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 28 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pulu.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pulu, there are papers which were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pulu.
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 helpful 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 Pulu:
- Websites specific to Hawaii
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Hawaii
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Pulu, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Pulu) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Pulu. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 19.5625, Longitude: -155.1025 In this case, the coordinates for Pulu have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <3> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
| <4> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |