Aloha e, Cousins!
For the first time in nearly three years of publishing, I’m writing you a personal (ish) letter about what’s been going on here at The McCorristons of Molokai. It’s been a rough year for, I think, everyone: between COVID-19 restrictions and the resulting fall out for families, my focus has been elsewhere and I’ve not been researching or writing. For those of you that look forward to updates on the McCorriston ʻohana, I am sorry.
Some good things have been brewing the background, however, and for that, I’ve very grateful! Here’s a short update on a few behind-the-scenes happenings at The McCorristons of Molokai:
Donations
Over the years, we’ve been very lucky to receive a number of donations in terms of vital records, photographs, and the like. Occasionally, I’ll get an email from someone who has paid for a vital record and had it sent directly to my care. More recently, however, we started receiving monetary donations to help with the running of this website and the ongoing research of and publications on the McCorristons! In 2020, we’ve received enough to switch to an annual hosting and domain registration model instead of the monthly plan that we were using before. Mahalo nui for your kōkua, cousins!
(Psst—want to contribute? Visit our Donations page.)
Ka Wai Ola
If you receive Ka Wai Ola, the monthly newsletter from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, you may have noticed a small blurb about the McCorristons in the back under the ʻImi ʻOhana (Family Search) section. In preparation for our next family reunion, we’ve started requesting input from branches of the family that we may have missed or with whom we’ve lost contact. It reads
MCCORRISTON — We are updating the McCorriston family tree! Descendants of Daniel McCorriston and Annie Nelson/Anna McColgan, Hugh McCorriston and Margaret Louise Gorman, Edward McCorrison and Mauoni, and Daniel McCorriston and Jane Johnson, please forward your family information to Lynn Kanani Daue at editor@themccorristonsofmolokai.org. We also welcome updates from the descendants of McCorriston cousin John McColgan and his wife Kalaʻiolele Kamanoulu and Samuel Hudson Foster and Margaret Louise Gorman.
To help you organize your immediate family’s information, we’ve also created a fillable PDF for you to download and complete. It’s a Family Group Sheet, a useful genealogical tool to group a family’s vital information (births, marriages, and deaths) with parents and their children in one file.
You can download this as many times as needed, and, if you’re so inclined, can email your sheets to editor@themccorristonsofmolokai.org!
Email System
Unfortunately, just as the blurb in Ka Wai Ola came out, we also embarked on a quest to migrate our email system … and it’s not quite complete. I have historically been not great at answering emails or updating the website regularly, but the delays in answering now are largely technical. I do expect to have this completed within the next few weeks, so if you’ve sent in updates or genealogical material and haven’t heard a response, please send it again in November. There’s a chance that it got lost in the migration.
Me ke aloha,
