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 find it on a map for me I would greatly appreciate it

Thank you

… Henry Tom replied:

Hi Harc3,

I believe the following 2 maps identify the location of Wah Fu North Village 华富北村 and it is near 笋岗西路 as noted by tyuti1668.

Henry

Living in Canada we don’t need to dream of a white Christmas. Except for a few places, a white Christmas is the rule.

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. These graves had shown no visitors during the traditional Spring and Autumn visitations nor the Christmas holidays. Another indication of them died family-less is the fact that the year of birth is missing on a rather large number of these tombstones.

Took some photos of the tombstones but the sun was so bright that heavy shadows obscured some of the inscriptions. Will have to go back another day when it isn’t as sunny.

Will produce a listing of the names once the photo–taking is finished. In the meantime just watch the slideshow:

Over the years visitors to our forums had contributed many maps of Siyi and the surrounding regionals. The biggest contributor, however, is Henry Tom, one of our moderators. The forums currently is unsearchable which makes referencing next to impossible and leads to much duplicated postings of the same maps.

In these pages we’ll harness the power of Wordpress to enable our visitors to search for the map that is helpful in their genealogy research.

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 books with our visitors who in turn will translate portion into English and share the translation with the online community. Please contact me for further information.

These books should be readily available in major bookstores throughout. Please contact us for further information.

	This book is a general introduction to the 5-County area called Wuyi.  It presents to the reader various notable aspects of the Wuyi area and covers the subjects of ancient villages, famous academics, travels of the Overseas hinese, Western architectural influence of buildings, watchtowers, marketplaces, area culture and traditions.  The 217-page softcover book (copyright 2005) contains a number of classic and modern photographs, both in color and black-and-white. Click here to view table of contents for this book.
	This book is an anthology of writings about various notable places and things of the Wuyi area.  It contains the prose writings of over 70 notable aspects of the area as written by various authors. The 397-page softcover book (copyright 2006) contains a number of color and black-and–white photographs. This book’s table of contents has 3 pages. Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3
	This book is an anthology of poetry written about various sceneries in the Sun Wui (Xinhui) County area.  There are over 50 original calligraphy poems written by various poets.  Many of the poems are ancient, some written in old traditional Chinese characters perhaps over 1000 years ago.  The 58-page softcover book (copyright 2004) contains minimal photographs.

According to legend and folk lore the North Emperor or Beid (北帝) is a powerful deity who rules the north. The ancient Chinese believed the world is made up of five elements, metal (金), water (水), wood (木), fire (火), and earth (土). They also assigned an element to each direction, north is water, south is fire, east is wood, west is metal, with earth in the centre. Furthermore, each element has a colour, metal is white, water is black, wood is green, fire is red, and earth is yellow. Each direction then takes on the same colour as the element that it is associated with.

From the above we know the North Emperor is related to water and black colour. No, it isn’t the ruler of the sea. That duty is assigned to various dragon lords with regional territorial control over seas, lakes, and rivers.

Inside the Forbidden City, a walled compound composed primarily of wooden structures, was a shrine dedicated to the North Emperor (Beidi) hoping that as god of water he would protect it against fire.

The third days of the third month on the lunar calender is designated as the North Emperor’s (Beidi) birthday. Part of the celebration is that on the 28th day of the second month the North God descends from his place inside and actually leaves the temple to make rounds among the people. The purpose of the visitation is to bring luck and good fortune. He returns to his rightful place inside the temple on the day before his birthday.

The video is a recording of this event that took place in Fusek, Taishan, Guangdong. The entire video is long, consists of seven parts. Below are Parts 1 – 3.

My father had three older brothers (Lee Kam Man, Lee Kam Chun, Lee Kam Hing) and at least two older sisters. My father returned to China in 1922 and eventually settled in Hong Kong.

My grandparents once lived on a back street near the Quan Yin Temple in Penang. If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of my uncles and aunts or any members of the Lee family, please contact Simon Lee through this website. Thanks in advance.

Simon W Lee

家祖李公宜煦祖貫廣東省台山縣 (昔之新寧) 東坑塔腳鄉。於十九世紀未期，以十七之齡，年未弱冠，遠涉重洋，僑居於馬來西亞之檳城、從事木匠之業。育有四男：錦文、錦全、錦興、錦茂 (即先父。字炳華、號偉茂) 、二女、名字不詳。

先君於一九二二年 (時十六歲) 獨自返回祖國，後定居於香港。時逢亂世，日寇侵掠，魚雁不通，音訊斷絕。今欲聯絡各伯姑兄弟，以圖聚首，惟時移世換，不知其所，而資料稀少，只知家祖於先父年幼時搬遷到新埠觀音廟後街。

本人於二零零一年旅遊檳城時、會唔觀音廟後街之長久居民李亞娥女士、相信家祖曾於三品巷三十三號居住。各位賢君如有上列各人或其子孫之消息請與此網站聯絡，萬分感謝。

李煥祥謹啟

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 where you can easily find and navigate to the desired page.

The biggest advantage of the makeover is that our visitors can now search our site. The search box in on the right hand column. Plus our visitors can now comment on directly each individual article plus reply to comment.

I’m happy to report that the Lee Clan online family has grown again. Cousin Albert contacted me. He belongs to the branch of Lee Yee.

For those visitors who would like to share their genealogy research experience please visit our forum.

We really need help in translating the mountain of Fushi genealogy records that Katherine has. Please email me. Thanks in advance!

Would like to thank ProBoard for hosting our forum. It is an open board which means it is not restricted to members only. Due to the high number of spam visitors who wish to post must register first. Registration is free. Drop by and share your thoughts, experiences and observations with us. Happy posting!

Would like to remind our visitors that Simon Lee is looking to establish contacts with his uncles, aunts and cousins in Malaysia. And with Chune’s help the listing of locations of Lee Associations has gone international.

Thank you for coming and looking forward to your comments!

• Chow
• Der
• Lee
• Zhao

In most cases it extended to the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, 1276AD or earlier. We have the information for the Der and Zhao families. It is a matter of finding time to translated them.

Chow family:

• Generations 1 – 5
• Generations 6 – 9
• Generations 10 – 13
• Generations 14 – 17
• Generations 18 – 21
• Generations 22 – 25

Der family:

• Wing Shui Xie (謝永述)

Lee family

• Lee On Jing (李安政)
• Generations 1-3 Lee Dong (李棟)
• Generations 2-6 Lee Hon (李侃)
• Generations 15-19 Lan Xiu Li (李蘭秀)
• Generations 19-23 Chang Yi Li (李長檽)
• Generations 23-26 On Wing Lee (李希蔭) Generations 23-26
• Generations 23-26 Hong Li (李希屏)
• Generations 23-26 Yic Wing Lee (李希亭)
• Generations 2-5 Lee Chun (李侚)

Zhao family

• Tze Cang Zhao (趙子聰)

Canada 加拿大

Lee Association of Calgary
132-2nd Ave SW
Calgary, Alta T2P OB8
Tel: (403)262-2247

Lee Association of Edmonton
c/o 13204 62nd Ave
Edmonton, Alta T6H 1N9

Lee Association of Montreal
94 Lagauchetiere St W.
Montreal, Que H2Z 1C2
Tel: (514)861-3762

Lee Association of Toronto
175A Dundas St W. 2nd Fl
Toronto ON M5G 1C7
Tel: (416)979-3291

Lee Association of Vancouver
313 East Pender
Vancouver BC V6A 1V1

Lee Association of Victoria
614 1/2 Fisgard St
Victoria BC V8W 1R6

Lee Association of Winnipeg
236 King St
Winnipeg, Man R3B 1J4