The LDS Family History Center will host a free genealogy conference July 11 at the Hilo Hawaii Stake Center, 1373 Kilauea Ave.
The LDS Family History Center will host a free genealogy conference July 11 at the Hilo Hawaii Stake Center, 1373 Kilauea Ave.
There will be storytelling by Uncle Henry Serion of Pahoa, who will share his stories of West Hawaii and Waimea as he remembers growing up on the Big island.
Patrick and Wanda Cardines will share their knowledge of the family search genealogy church website from a beginner to advanced level perspective.
Keynote speaker will be Ceci Hao, who was bestowed at the age of 17 with the highest title a woman can have in Samoa’s traditional society — a “Taupou.”
Hao will recount the heartbreak and triumph of her epic return to Faleapuna, her village of Samoa, as a navigator aboard Hokule‘a. She retraces her ancestral connections through her 1,000-nautical mile voyage from Aitutaki to ‘Upolu, Samoa, in her venture to fulfill a promise she made to her grandfather to “navigate and return to their islands the way her ancestors once did.”
The conference and lunch are free and open to the public.
Registration is from 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at the Family History Center; beginning at 7:30 a.m. the day of the conference; or online at hilohawaiifamilyhistorycenter.net.