Sunday, July 23, 2023

Susa Young Gates, "Genealogy in Hawaii"

In a chapter entitled “Genealogy in Hawaii”, Susa Young Gates affirmed the traditional belief that the natives of Hawaii were “originally Nephites”:

 

(Note.—We have good reason to know that these people were originally Nephites, who came down in the “ships of Hagoth” to adventure their fortunes in new and unknown islands of the Ocean—Book of Alma 63:4-8.—Editor.) (Susa Young Gates, Surname Book and Racial History: A Compilation and Arrangement of Genealogical and Historical Data for Use by the Students and Members of the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints [Salt Lake City: General Board of the Relief Society, 1918], 235)