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  • Strange connections

    Ya ever find yourself connected to a place you would never expect?

    Some odd genealogy that somehow hooks you to a group, or family?



    My cousin Bob was a St. Vincent De Paul's orphan, took away from his family (or given up) at age 3. He's 69 now.

    A few years ago he has to track down his legit birth certificate and finds out he's a 50%er native Hawaiian. His father's name is Morise Alana.

    I get to talking with him and his wife Rosie at my other cousin's funeral this past Saturday, he tells he found out his dad played with a band in and around Detroit called The Royal Hawaiians...he doesn't know much more than this...so I go to a googeling....

    The Royal Hawaiians Band in Michigan was headed up by Johnny 'Ukulele' Ka'aihue:

    http://www.myspace.com/johnnyukulele

    So my cuz's Dad worked for Ka'aihue.....




    Ermmmm.....





    I do art for...Pali Ka'aihue.....




    How bizarre is that????

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    Re: Strange connections...

    Nother connection....I'm a Maxwell. A injun Maxwell.

    There's a prominent Maxwell in Hawaii....

    Connection is....


    Maxwell boys like throwing their skirts up for the brown ladies.

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    • #3
      Re: Strange connections...

      ...and I was just at a party last weekend with a number of hula dancers I know, along with the man who has been working with them extensively this past couple years, Bill Ka`aihue, who I first met through Uncle George Naope.

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        And I was with the kids visiting the aquarium in San Sebastian, Spain, a few weeks ago and read the bits underneath the pictures in the exhibit of long ago....and they told the story about the Companie des Filipinas, the Spanish company based from the Port of San Sebastian that took goods all over the world....where, obviously, we Misajons must have originally come from so long ago, being that the 'j' in Misajon is pronounced as an 'h', as the Spaniards do.

        It was a remarkable moment...and I have to admit that my eyes teared up and my throat tightened....I'd always told the kids that the Spaniards had gone to the Phillippines and left their name there, but I had no idea that the set off point in Spain was so close to where the Misajons finished full circle just up the road in France.
        http://thissmallfrenchtown.blogspot.com/
        http://thefrenchneighbor.blogspot.com/

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        • #5
          Re: Strange connections

          Strange this thread came up as I found, not even two days ago, whilst doing genealogy research, the name Ka'aihue in my family history. So that's my strange connection for the day, this post!

          Eh, Pesh, ain't Alana a Hawaiian-Chinese last name? I come from a very similar sounding Hawaiian-Chinese surname family.

          http://www.hawaiian-roots.com/chinese_4.htm
          I'm disgusted and repulsed, and I can't look away.

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            I have no idea, and I'm sure Bob doesn't either. He's just now at 69 hooking up with his brother 'cause all the kids got scattered. He got fostered out to a woman who lived in Marine City and went to school with my Mom's family.

            My Mom always said it was a good thing Bob was a 'village boy' because the 'farm boys' were basically slave labor and rarely went to school.

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            • #7
              Re: Strange connections

              Originally posted by Lei K View Post

              Eh, Pesh, ain't Alana a Hawaiian-Chinese last name? I come from a very similar sounding Hawaiian-Chinese surname family.

              http://www.hawaiian-roots.com/chinese_4.htm
              It is true that many Chinese names have been Hawaiianized and sound like this name, it isn't an exclusive rule. Aiona, Akiona, Awai are easy examples of this. But names like Akau and Alana are trickier, because both are Hawaiian words and unless one knows that family's particular story, you cannot really tell.

              pax

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              • #8
                Re: Strange connections

                Originally posted by Pua'i Mana'o View Post
                It is true that many Chinese names have been Hawaiianized and sound like this name, it isn't an exclusive rule. Aiona, Akiona, Awai are easy examples of this. But names like Akau and Alana are trickier, because both are Hawaiian words and unless one knows that family's particular story, you cannot really tell.
                Mahalo, it was just a curiosity, nothing more, nothing less.
                I'm disgusted and repulsed, and I can't look away.

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                • #9
                  Re: Strange connections

                  Originally posted by Lei K View Post
                  Strange this thread came up as I found, not even two days ago, whilst doing genealogy research, the name Ka'aihue in my family history. So that's my strange connection for the day, this post!
                  http://www.hawaiian-roots.com/chinese_4.htm
                  PK's family history is also with Ka'aihue and Kealoha Ohana.

                  Small world indeed.

                  Auntie Lynn
                  Be AKAMAI ~ KOKUA Hawai`i!
                  Philippians 4:13 --- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

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