Our family tree has many branches, both living and dead. but all equally important. I cherish the memories that make its roots run deep.
Who am I and what drives me to this Quest
My Connections
My Connections
My Connections
Yoshigoro's 5th son Eugene Takeo Ichinose married Harriet Toi. These were my Grandparents. Their 2nd eldest child Lester Yoshio Ichinose married Nancy Cykler of whom I am the eldest son, Peter Ichinose.
Why me?
My Connections
My Connections
In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again.
To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before.
We are the storytellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before us cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves.
by Della Joann McGinnis Johnson
Motivation
My Connections
Motivation
Come, look with me inside this drawer,
In this box I've often seen,
At the pictures, black and white,
Faces proud, still, serene.
I wish I knew the people,
These strangers in the box,
Their names and all their memories
Are lost among my socks.
I wonder what their lives were like,
How did they spend their days?
What about their special times?
I'll never know their ways.
If only someone had taken time
To tell who, what, where, or when,
These faces of my heritage
Would come to life again.
Could this become the fate
Of the pictures we take today?
The faces and the memories
Someday to be passed away?
Make time to save your stories,
Seize the opportunity when it knocks,
Or someday you and yours could be
The strangers in the box.
by Pamela Harazim
The Ichinose Family
This means many things to me. It is a gathering of Yoshigoro and Tome's descendants. It is a search for their origins in Japan and their journey to Hawaii. It is about how they lived and who they were. It is a sharing of how their descendants have contributed to society in Hawaii and beyond, their achievements and their trials, their ups and their downs and how their paths have affected so many around them over the years. Most significantly it is an understanding and an exercise of the mind to appreciate how ALL these things are connected and that gives us awareness of how every action we take and every road we choose affects everything and everyone around us in ways both negligible to significant and how so important that can be. It should inspire and encourage us to accept ourselves with all our gifts and all our deficits to strive to leave this world a better place because we were here. Our family history (blood or not) is the living foundation of the future.
ALOHA
Important Notice
Many of the people on this website lived many years ago and have long passed. That being said there are people who are still going strong and for privacy reasons many of these pages with information on living parts of our tree will be locked. Also I will not knowingly have any personal information about living relatives on the site without their permission. If you are a descendent and want to contribute I welcome you to contact me and I will work with you to add your story to this site.
For access to locked pages you will need to sign up as a member and contact me at peterichinose@yahoo.com with confirmation and good reason for access... Thank you.
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