Mahalo a nui loa!

Special mahalo (thank you) goes out to cousin Lloyd Reinhardt; cousin Rev. (Ret.) Tyrone Reinhardt; Aunty Kahili Long; Christine Fung; our Kanahele (Kaniuhele) ohana over on Kauai and Oahu; my Mom Hannah Reinhardt Antonio; Tutu Gerry Krueger Waiau; and special acknowledgement to my sister, Sing Antonio Vista, who has spent countless hours tracking and perusing the Federal Census and Ancestry databases to confirm and then re-confirm the years of events and residences of our ancestors!  Since inception, their selfless contributions, genealogy knowledge, input, insights and willingness to assist us in our mission have been instrumental in developing our kumu `ohana website.   We would also like to acknowledge the LDS Family History Library Center (familysearch.org) for graciously sharing their research knowledge of the largest search archives available in the world!  On behalf of our Reinhardt ohana...mahalo (thank you!). 

RESEARCH PREFACE

In pre-contact, ancient Hawaii....names of ancestors were found in their mele koihonua, genealogy chants. These chants were taught generation after generation---a way of keeping track of their lineage, as their native language was not yet transcribed.  That is, until the missionaries, along with the Hawaiians, painstakenly deciphered through translation and forming into English our Hawaiian alphabet.  Thus the term "lost in translation", compounded with human error, or poor data recording, may have contributed to the inconsistencies of the years of events (i.e, birth, marriage, death), which could fluctuate anywhere between 5 to 20 years for the same individual!  In our discoveries, we have found that the Federal Census data adhered to more precise (but not always accurate) documentation and therefore, their recorded time reference (date/year of census) was used as a time-frame-guideline when confirming individuals vital statistics.