Celebrating Our Roots
Journey from China to Kauai: A Family's Heritage
Discover the inspiring story of Chock Chin’s journey to save his family in China and build a new kind of life in the lush island Kingdom of Hawaii in the early 19th century.
Stories of Courage, Sacrifice, Vision, and Grace
Chock Grand Ancestral Temple in Guan Tang honors Chock emigrants to Hawaii
The Chinese are a temple people. In addition to the multiple small ancestral temples scattered throughout the neighborhoods of Chinese villages, the oldest clans typically built larger temples called Grand Ancestral Temples, to honor the first ancestor of their clan...
Finding Chock Chin’s house and Lotus Pond
I have been to Hanalei several times and have looked around for anything that might once have been the famous lotus pond or lily pond. However, I had no real chance, because I didn't actually know any of the relatives who once lived there and knew exactly where it...
Chock/Zhuo Clan of Guan Tang – Clan History
Louise Skyles has been gathering genealogical records and working directly with Zhuo Bing Quan for almost four years now and it is amazing how much more we know about our ancestors at this point. Because of the royal lineage from which the Chock/Zhuo clan descends,...
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