IslandRoutes.com
Title
Portuguese Hawaiian Genealogy and Heritage - Society and Culture
Description
Melody is the Site Manager for IslandRoutes.com. She has written many articles for the website as well as the ebooks "Getting the Most Out of Your Visit to the Family History Center" and "Portuguese Hawaiian Immigration: A Research Guide". She headed the indexing project of the book "Portuguese Hawaiian Memories" by J.F. Freitas and compiled the Azorean passport registration indexes by town name, which can be found on IslandRoutes.com. She is currently working on an index to Early Portuguese Settlers in Hawaii (some parts are on IslandRoutes.com) She has also documented most of the Portuguese families living on the island of Kauai from 1880-1930.
Melody was a chat host for AOL's Genealogy Forum since 1997-2003. She worked with the Portuguese Special Interest Group as the Portuguese Hawaiian research specialist. She hosted chat, answered questions posted to the message boards, helped setup the Portuguese Resource Center, and wrote for the newsletter. Melody currently is a moderator for Portuguese Genealogy chat (with the PortGen Chat Group)at www.genealogyforum.org and www.lusaweb.com She also writes for genealogyforum.org and works on the web team. She has compiled these sections for the website:
She draws on her own research experience to assist others with their family trees. She has been researching her Portuguese Hawaiian (as well as her Irish, English, Australian, and French)roots for 12 years. What started as a simple project to help her Grandmother record the family history has turned 20+ binder pile up that threatens to overrun the household. She has experience with Hawaiian, Californian, and Azorean research. Her Portuguese ancestry originates in Achada, Nordeste, and Maia, Ribeira Grande on Sao Miguel Island, Azores. Both groups settled in Kilauea, Kauai, and worked for the Kilauea Sugar Plantation. Learn more about her genealogy: My Pacheco-Jackson Heritage
