K이민사

On January 13, 1903, the SS Gaelic — the first immigrant ship — arrived in Honolulu. The Korean Diaspora Archive preserves over 130,000 historical records tracing the lives of Hawaii's Korean immigrants from that day onward. ■ Records of Immigration · Ship Manifests — 7,400+ passengers who crossed the Pacific, beginning with the Gaelic · Picture Brides — passport records of women who crossed the ocean on the strength of a single photograph · Marriage Index — 2,000+ Korean couples wed in Hawaii (State Archives) · Death Records — the last records of the first generation, marked "Korean" in the nationality column · Unified Persons — a database linking names scattered across many records · Media — photographs and films from plantations to churches ■ Families & Networks · Family tab — 2,000+ families rejoined through kinship, shared voyages and shared passports · Person networks — one person at the center, from grandparents to grandchildren to the people they appeared with in print · Archive Book Shelf — books woven from the records, readable in the app ■ Independence Movement & Military Service · Patriots — those who sent independence funds from their plantation wages · Military Service — second-generation Koreans who fought at Normandy, Luzon, and in their fathers' homeland (cross-verified with NARA and Kungminbo) · Unlocated Graves — a project to find forgotten independence patriots ■ Newspaper Archive — a century of Korean press · Kungminbo (1909–1963), 80,000 articles · The American Korean (1929–1941) · The Young Korean (1921–1926) · Korea Times Hawaii (1973–2010) · Brandon Palmer newspaper index · Zoom into the original printed page from any article ■ Gyeote — an online vigil A quiet place to sit for a moment beside someone at rest in Hawaii. Lay a lei in the field and catch your breath. ■ How to use · Unified search across ships, passports, marriages, newspapers, and graves · Family — unfold a family's network from a single name · DB Story — read the whole archive as a five-chapter immigration narrative · Contribute — send photos and stories to be added after review Membership is free. Open to descendants searching for ancestors, scholars of immigration history, and everyone new to this story. A nonprofit historical archive operated by the Jemulpo Club.