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Top 3 Locations for Marriage Registers in Hawaii
There are three places you can obtain marriage
records in Hawaii: the Health Department, the Church, and the Hawaii State
Archives. Read the details below.
Marriage registers in Hawaii
are governed by state law, which restricts access to records less than 75 years
old to only:
1. Bride/groom
whose name appears on record
2. Parents of
the bride/groom
3. Legal
Guardians
4. Persons who
descend/share common ancestors with the bride/groom
a.
Grandparents
b.
Aunts or uncles
c.
Cousins
5. Persons
legally acting in behalf of qualified persons
I. Marriage
Registers in Hawaii: Health Department
Marriage records are available
at $10 per copy at the Hawaii Health Department's Vital Statistics Section. For
inquiries, call (808) 586-4542. For your request, use the online form at
this link.
Aside from being qualified to
access current records, you also need to provide as many details as you can,
such as:
A. Groom's
complete name
B. Bride's
complete maiden name
C. Complete
marriage date and location (city/town/island)
D. Purpose for
request and relationship to person/s on record
E. Your contact
details
After the 75-year proscription
period, records may be made available to any person.
II. Marriage
Registers in Hawaii: Churches
Marriage registers in Hawaii
are also found among church registers. Around early to mid-1800s, religious
missionaries began arriving in Hawaii.
By the turn of the next
century, these four groups were the biggest:
A. The Mormons
B. The
Congregationalists
C. The
Presbyterians
D. The Roman
Catholics
Much later, another major group
arose in the islands, the Buddhists, who kept their own temple records.
III. Marriage Registers in
Hawaii: Hawaii State Archives
Marriage registers in Hawaii
can lead you to more complete genealogical data, such as those from certificates
and licenses. Certificates will provide you with the couple's race, while the
license will even state the parents' race and their address at the time the
marriage took place.
Older records (1826-1929) may
be found at the Hawaii State Archives, but the repository's index is only up to
1910. An archival marriage license, on the other hand, would be filed in either
the 1900-to-1910 or the 1911-to-1929 periods.
The Archives published a
newspaper, called Nupepa Kuokoa, from ca. 1860 to the late 1920s, which may also
help those doing general research on marriages among residents of the islands.
The publication has its own browser at the Archives website.
Finding your marriage records in Hawaii
has been made convenient by these three channels. Feel free to browse around the
Marriage Records section of
RecordsSiteReviews for more information.
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