Waihona Aina - Authenication Services. Search for hawaiian history and land use documents (Mahele, Boundary Commision, Royal Patents, Land Grants)

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With Waihona Aina you can make innumerable free searches and with a registered account you can save your searches and create bookmarks. Stay tuned as we create more useful functionality. Register for an account today.

In the old site, Waihona was not able to link the maps. On this new site we have the maps, if it exist, linked to the documents. Map or Diagrams.

University of Hawaii Students

The Hamilton Library Hawaiian Collection at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, has a special arrangement for students working on Hawaiian topics, and if you are a student you should inquire about this service at the library.

Mission

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, Kaua‘i, Lana‘i, Maui, Moloka‘i, Ni‘ihau and O‘ahu.

Sample Records

10349 - This claim illustrates an ahupua`a search. It is one of the 86 claims you would get if you searched for Hanapepe ahupua`a. It is the most lyric claim in the database.

02564 - This claim illustrates one of the claims you would find searching the text field for the word heiau

Our Web Services

Over the last 9 years the technology on the web has changed dramatically and the Waihona Aina Corp. has kept up with it, purchasing and implementing new programs and upgrading to keep the most current programs, latest security and web services.

The Projects

The Mahele Database (completed)
The Boundary Commission Database (completed)
The Land Grant Index (Indexed and in process)
Royal Patent Documents Completed
Early Census Records - Future release
Map Database - Future release