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On January 10, 2010, harc3 posted: Hi all. I am trying to find this on a map 广东省深圳市福田区华富北村82栋 (my relative in Shenzhen) I know it is Shenzhen, Guangdong Province in Futian District of Wah Fu North Village Estate 82. I found the Futian district but can’t seem to get Wah Fu North Village other than Hong Kong. If anyone can... »
Literature on Wuyi
Raymond Seid on his most recent trip to his ancestral village in Xinhui purchased three very interesting books on Wuyi. These books take the readers to different parts of Wuyi and give a glimpse of the area’s past as the pieces were written by different authors from different eras. Raymond is willing to share these... »
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Our returning visitors will notice our new look. We’ve redesigned our site by harnessing the power of Wordpress. Our site is now a Web 2.0 site. Unfortunately it also calls a different scheme for saving file which means using any of the previous links will most likely get you to our front page from... »
The genealogy trail
The Chinese have been known for keeping detail genealogy records. It is generally accepted that the longest continuous Chinese genealogy record belongs to descendants of Confucius. It is not uncommon, however, for families and clans to have genealogy records extend over a thousand years or more. Amazingly enough, many of these invaluable records survived... »
Chinese Genealogy
This site is devoted to the genealogy of Chinese families from an area of Guangdong, China (中國廣東)commonly known as Siyi (四邑) or four counties. The counties are Xinhui (新會), Taishan (台山), Kaiping (開平), and Enping (恩平). The families in this area have much in common besides geographic location. The great majority trace their origin... »
Xinhui County
In 214 BC the Qin Dynasty (秦) conquered Nanyue (南越) and divided the area into three quon (郡) or prefectures, Guilin (桂林), Namhoi (南海), and Cheung (象). Xinhui was part of Namhoi quon (南海郡). Things remained relatively unchanged until the Three Kingdom period (三國時代). In 222 AD, one of the Kingdoms, Wu (吳), established Wuyee... »
Taishan County
Taishan (台山縣) or Hoy Sun (Hoi Sun) in the local dialect was part of Xinhui (新會縣) until 1499 when Xinhui’s borders were redrawn resulted in the formation of a new county from the area on its southwest. The new county, Xinning (新寧), is generally accepted to be Taishan’s forerunner. However, one writer said this... »
The Generation Name Poem
What is a generation name poem? There is no standard length nor format. Generally, however, it follows the traditional Chinese poem structures of grouping in 4’s, 5’s or 7’s. The correct grouping will lend meanings to the poem. Starting in sequent with the first character each denotes a generation. The poem tumbles over and... »
Chinese surnames and spelling variations
This is a listing of the spelling variations of some of Chinese surnames that we know of: 區 Au, Aun, Ou 歐 Au, Aun, Ou 白 Bai, Bak, Pak, Pek, Pack 費 Bei, Bi, Fai, Fay, Fei 薄 Bo, Bok 蔡 Cai, Choi, Choy, Toy, Tsai 曹 Cao, Chao, Cho, Tsao 陳 Chan, Chen, Chin, Chinn, Tan, Tran (Vietnam) 張 Chang, Cheung, Jeung,... »
