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 our Chinese school classmates from almost half-a-century was of the same name. Quickly emailed John for confirmation. The whole day went by without a word from John.

Imagine my surprise the following morning seeing in my in box an email from Kenneth. To make a long story short we exchange email and arranged a suitable time, time zone differences, for a voice connection to to some catching up.

Kenneth and I last saw each other was in the early 70′s. There were a lot of catch up to do during the ensuing phone call since our offspring are older than us when we lost contact. Eventually the topic turned to other members of our class. We went through the names of the eleven members. Kenneth said the other two Ken’s are in the same city as him and he volunteered to locate and contact them. Then I remember seeing a photo of Jim, another classmate, at a mutual friend’s place and volunteered to obtain Jim’s co-ordinates.

Thanks to the internet the other two Ken’s and I quickly established contact and updated each other on the major happenings in life. Jim was a bit difficult to get hold of but eventually we contacted. When he heard that we were trying to contact the old classmates, he said John, another classmate, is his in-law. Jim’s son married John’s daughter. Oh, this John is not same John I mentioned at the beginning. This is John Chan, the other one is John Hum. There are three Kenny and two John in the class.

Meanwhile John Hum had contacted another former classmate, Ronald. The two of them are cousins. Quickly eight of us are in contact with each other after all these years. Unfortunately the search for the remain three is more difficult. So far we have nothing but rumours of their where about.

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!

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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!

At the end of this year’s Scotia Bank half-marathon run/walk fundraising event.

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 graves had shown no visitors during the traditional Spring and Autumn visitations nor the traditional western 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.

Thee are more than 350 photos in this collection. I have broken it up into multiple slideshows and presented over three pages because one slideshow takes too long to load.

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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 graves had shown no visitors during the traditional Spring and Autumn visitations nor the traditional western 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.

Thee are more than 350 photos in this collection. I have broken it up into multiple slideshows and presented over three pages because one slideshow takes too long to load.

View Photo Album

View Photo Album

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• Cheung Family Genealogy Page
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• Chinese in Guyana: Their Roots
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• Sanford N Chow – InterneTree
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• Family Tree of Sally G Goh
• Hakka – An Important Element of Chinese Culture
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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. Vast majority of these graves had shown no visitors during the traditional Spring and Autumn visitations nor the traditional western 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.

Thee are more than 350 photos in this collection. I have broken it up into multiple slideshows and presented over 3 pages because one slideshow takes too long to load.

View Photo Album

View Photo Album

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.