This document provides information about genealogy and tips for researching one's own genealogy. It discusses why genealogy is important, especially for Hawaiian people, as it was used to determine royal rank. Tips are given for interviewing family members and collecting information like birth/death dates and places. The document instructs on properly documenting genealogy using given names rather than nicknames and distinguishing between maiden and married names for women. It introduces genograms as a way to visually represent family trees and provides a sample Chong family genogram using Hawaiian terms.

1. MO`OKŪ`AUHAU:
GENEALOGY
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2. WHY STUDY GENEALOGY?
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To strengthen family ties
To personalize history and geography
To create a legacy for your descendants
To learn research techniques
To create history, not just study it

3. Mo`okū`auhau
• Mo`okū`auhau, or genealogy, is very
important to the Hawaiian people
• It is important to know where you come
from
• Genealogy determined rank of ali`i
• You will find that most mo`olelo and ka`ao
begin with some form of genealogy

4. TIPS ON RESEARCHING YOUR
OWN MO`OKŪ`AUHAU
• Do interviews with your parents, grandparents,
aunts, uncles and cousins in your family lines to
research your family roots.
• Find out at much as you. Some things you may
want to ask include:
– Birth and death dates and places, marriage dates and
places and who the person married, children, etc.
– Education, Occupation, Religion, Adoption, Military
Service, Foreign Language(s) spoken, Immigration,
Family Stories about this person.

5. CREATING YOUR
MO`OKŪ`AUHAU
• Do not just use first names if at all possible.
• Use given names rather than nicknames on
your official genealogy chart.
• When using names for women, use given
last names (maiden names) rather than
married names

6. GENOGRAM SYMBOLS
• A genogram is a graphic representation of
a person’s mo`okū`auhau, or genealogy. It
displays the interaction of generations
within a family.
– For example, males are represented by a
square ; females by a circle .
– For more on genogram symbols, visit the
following website:
http://www.genopro.com/genogram/symbols/

7. KA MOʻOKŪʻAUHAU O KA
ʻOHANA CHONG
Chong Family Genealogy
(Sample)

8. Reginald Joseph Wailana
Chong
Evelyn Leimamo Apo
Paternal Grandmother
Paternal Grandfather
Herbert Yamashita
Paternal Grandfather
Rachel Elaine Gapol
Paternal Grandmother
Vaughn W. Chong
Uncle
Rachelle Yamashita
Auntie
Reginald K. Chong
Uncle
Brandon Yamashita
Uncle
Miles K. Chong
Uncle
Scotty Yamashita
Uncle
Ryan Kauʻi
Chong
Father
Rion Keakakaiuli Ichiro
Chong
Gabrielle
Kamālamalamaonālani
Yamashita
Mother
Callie
Kapuahiwaikauika’iu
Sayuri Chong
Lainey
Haliʻalaulani Kimiko
Chong

9. PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS
• ʻO Reginald Joseph
Wailana Chong ke kāne
no Kailua, Oʻahu
• ʻO Evelyn Leimamo Apo
ka wahine no Pāʻia, Maui.
• Noho pū lāua. Hānau ʻia
mai ʻo Ryan Kauʻi Chong,
he kāne.

10. MATERNAL
GRANDPARENTS
• ʻO Herbert Yamashita ke
kāne no ʻŌlaʻa, Hawaiʻi
• ʻO Rachel Gapol ka
wahine no ʻŌlaʻa, Hawaiʻi.
• Noho pū lāua. Hānau ʻia
mai ʻo Gabrielle
Kamālamalamaonālani
Yamashita, he wahine

11. ʻO Ryan Kauʻi Chong ke kāne no Hilo, Hawaiʻi
ʻO Gabrielle Kamālamalamaonālani Yamashita ka wahine no
Keaʻau, Hawaiʻi.
Noho pū lāua. Hānau ʻia mai ʻo Rion Ichiro Keakakaiuli
Chong, he kāne. A hānau ʻia mai ʻo Callie
Kapuahiwaikauikaʻiu Sayuri Chong a me Lainey
Haliʻalaulani Kimiko Chong, he mau wāhine.