Family research is based on an eight-foot-by-three-foot chart done by
elders years ago- plus a computer-generated genealogy booklet and a
college genealogy report. Reunions are rare, because family members
are too busy being successful and fulfilled in America. It is near
impossible to get all to attend a gathering and sit down with each other
at the same time.

When I call those I am able to call, I have to get my message done in
three sentences or the relative has to rush off to other needs. When they
call me, I am often not home- or my phone is "off" as I do family
probate work, genealogy research, and/or personal business on-line.

I have relatives who cannot be reached by phone; they have very sensitive
jobs. Their companies block their calls for security reasons. I am
especially proud of these folks who serve our nation so faithfully.
This family consists of members who look racially divergent and think
differently. Yet there is respect for the varied perspectives and positions.

Honest discussions are tempered with love and the allowance of a lot of
"space" to do that which one wishes as long as no one else is endangered.
My siblings and I are Chinese, Hawaiian, English, Irish, Danish,
Portuguese and Spanish. We marry for love, so our spouses also come
from many races.

My husband is Italian, German, Austrian, Spanish. He and his mother
claim Italian. His half-sister and two half-brothers are Italian
and Japanese. My family claims Part-Hawaiian/Cosmopolitan. My son
married a full-Japanese girl- an absolutely wonderful person. So my one-
and-only granddaughter is all of the above, plus half-Japanese. She is
the jewel of our family.

• Lucas Matsumoto Family Tree (1 KB)
  This family tree begins with me. It also shows my parents and grandparents on both sides. Both mom and dad were Part-Hawaiian/Cosmopolitan. The Cosmopolitan part included: Chinese, English, Danish, Irish, Portuguese, and Spanish. The Hawaiian part was Polynesians of Marquesan, Tahitian, and Hawaiian ethnicities. I am very proud of being the product of so many ethnicities, cultures, peoples.
• Muriel Ontai Family Tree (1 KB)
  This family tree begins with my mother who began life as Elizabeth Muriel, but as she grew up became known as Muriel Elizabeth. How come? I have no idea. Mom's grandparent generation is sadly 75% blank. The only grandparent for her is my great grandmother, Ida K. Metcalf (Loo)Rosario Ontai. Hence, as I move into mom's great grand parents, all I have are Ida's parents...Frank and Alice. Frank was the third child, and only son, of Theophilus Sabin Metcalf. The family believes that Frank's grandmother was an Alii Chiefess, but I seek proof of such.
• Theophilus Metcalf Family Tree (1 KB)
  

Lucas Puanani Tilton Matsumoto

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