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Waihona `Aina
Over 35,000 records
More accurate documentation than you
can find on your own without addition
of time and effort.
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More accurate documentation than you can find on your own
without addition of time and effort. -
Transcribed
Cross-Referenced
Proofed
Our goal is to provide access to the knowledge frequently
dismissed in the past, but which has become crucial information
for historic preservation, land use planning and the search for
Hawaiian cultural history and family on the islands of Hawai‘i,y
Kaua‘i, Lana‘i, Maui, Moloka‘i, Ni‘ihau and O‘ahu.
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Mahele Records
Royal Patents
Boundary Commission
Land Grants
Land Grants are sometimes confused with
the Royal Patent Land Grants, especially after
the word Royal was removed after the Overthrow.
The earliest LG records (1846) are in both English
and Hawaiian.
Mahele Database
The Mahele database includes the first legal documents written across the Hawaiian island chain (1848-1853) of 14,500 records. Awards given by the Land Commission gave legal title to land in fee ownership.
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Boundary Commission
The BC database are the 600+ records of the Boundary Commissioners (1868-1915) whose task was to determine boundaries for ali`i lands and government lands, if not known.
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Royal Patents
The RP database are the 8665+ records of the final step of the Kingdom/Government (1847-2000 and beyond) to document the metes and bounds for Mahele and Boundary Commission records, and whereby the Government signs off its interest in the property. This series of records is still on-going.
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Land Grants
The LG database (1846-1922 and beyond) includes 14,000+ records. LGs differ from the records of the first three databases, because they are not contingent on the Mahele records. Instead these document the land sales of the Kingdom, the Territory, and today the State of Hawai‘i. This series is also on-going.
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