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 Vacationland Hawaii (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 Vacationland Hawaii. 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 Vacationland Hawaii ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Vacationland Hawaii.

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 Vacationland Hawaii - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

Hale Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hale Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Hale Cemetery is located 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the northeast of Kalapana.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2295166 <2>
Sacred Heart Catholic Church Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sacred Heart Catholic Church Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Sacred Heart Catholic Church Cemetery is located in Pahoa.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2317026 <2>
Kurtistown Jodo Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kurtistown Jodo Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2319669 <2>
Ola'a First Hawaiian Church Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ola'a First Hawaiian Church Cemetery
- The Ola'a First Hawaiian Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- First Hawaiian Congregational Cemetery
Kurtistown Filipino Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kurtistown Filipino Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2175656 <2>
Old Japanese Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- 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.<3>
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Old Japanese Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<1> to the southwest of Keaau.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2322344 <2>
Mountain View Community Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mountain View Community Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Mountain View Community Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<1> to the southwest of Keaau.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2320357 <2>
Onekahakaha Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Onekahakaha Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2285917 <2>
Hilo Chinese Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hilo Chinese Cemetery
- The Hilo Chinese Cemetery has also been known as:
- Chinese Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #103853 <2>
East Hawaii Veterans Cemetery #1
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- 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 <2>
East Hawaii Veterans Cemetery #2
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the East Hawaii Veterans Cemetery #2
- The East Hawaii Veterans Cemetery #2 has also been known as:
- Veterans Cemetery #2
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2244646 <2>
Haili Congressional Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Haili Congressional Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Haili Congressional Cemetery is located in Hilo.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #103854 <2>
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- Homelani Memorial Park
  (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
  - 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 <2>
- St. Joseph Catholic Church Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Joseph Catholic Church Cemetery
- St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery
  - The St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
  - Hilo Catholic Cemetery
  - Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2411793 <2>

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

Newspapers Published in Vacationland Hawaii ...

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 Vacationland Hawaii.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Vacationland Hawaii, 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 Vacationland Hawaii.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Vacationland Hawaii:

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
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Hawaii
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Hawaii
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Hawaii

Footnotes ...

<1>	Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Vacationland Hawaii) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Vacationland Hawaii. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 19.4944, Longitude: -154.8239 In this case, the coordinates for Vacationland Hawaii have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>	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.
<3>	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.