Honolulu County, Hawaii Genealogy Records

Listed record inventories

Selected holdings and indexes for Honolulu County, checked against the repository descriptions linked below. Date spans may contain gaps; an index is not a complete set of original records.

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Repository access note: Selected newspaper titles cataloged by the Library of Congress with explicit county geography. Priority is given to titles beginning by 1950; up to five later titles are included where no earlier dated title is listed for that county. Dates describe publication history, not the issues available at a library. Multiple format records with the same title, place and dates are grouped. The catalog may describe paper, microfilm or online resources. Open ends and the word Current reflect the catalog description; confirm present availability and exact holdings with the libraries listed on the linked record.

Sources: the catalogs and repository descriptions linked on the entries above. Selected inventories do not establish complete coverage of every record type or online access to original documents. Read the repository access note for source dates and limitations.

Where to find the records

• Find Honolulu County's official website

  We haven't checked this county's website yet, so this opens a web search. Look for an address ending in .gov, then find the Bureau of Conveyances and the circuit courts.

• The Bureau of Conveyances

  Hawaii records land statewide, in one office in Honolulu, not by county.

• The circuit courts

  Probate, divorce and court cases, by judicial circuit.

• The Hawaii State Archives

  In Honolulu: government records of the Kingdom, Republic and Territory, including land, court and immigration records.

• Hawaii State Archivesfree

  The state archives in Honolulu, with records of the Kingdom, Republic and Territory of Hawaii: land, court, vital and immigration records.

• FamilySearch Catalogfree

  Search by place for "Hawaii, Honolulu" to find filmed and digitized records, many viewable free online with a FamilySearch account.

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Boundaries and parent counties

Formed from: All of Oahu County, incorporated as the City and County of Honolulu on April 30, 1907

Records stay with the county that created them. If your ancestor lived here before 1907, search the parent county. The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries shows each boundary change.