In early November received an email from my friend John. It was one of those forwarded emails with a string of email addresses. That day I did something out of the ordinary, besides reading the email I browsed through the list of email addresses. In the process spotted the name Kenneth Jang. One of...
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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...
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At the end of this year’s Scotia Bank half-marathon run/walk fundraising event.
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Ocean View Cemetery is a very popular cemetery with the Chinese in Greater Vancouver. On the southwest corner of the cemetery, which Ocean View has assigned the name Fern, is a fair number of Chinese who died in the 1950s and from the looks of things most died without family. Vast majority of these...
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Over the past decade Chinese genealogy online has come a long way. Sites come online daily. By the same token sites cease to exist with similar frequency. It may not be humanly possible to Keep up with the changes. Please inform us of additions and broken links. Thanks you! External Links Cheung Family Genealogy...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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