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
Finding the Village of Aaron Hee’s Grandfather
The beautiful thing about having a lot of family records in the familysearch.org tree is that it provides the opportunity for people with similar surnames from similar places to find them and wonder if/how they might be related. That is how Aaron Hee made a crucial...
A Little History of the She Clan
The She clan has a long history in Guan Tang village, and intermarried with the Zhuo clan many times throughout the years. Louise has been researching them as part of our project to find the ancestral lines of the women who married into the Zhuo clan. As with most...
Finding our Miss She in the She Clan Jiapu
Chinese jiapus are awesome, but you really need specific details in order to find what you're looking for in them. And if you work with a large and complex family tree like ours long enough, you might need a little miracle or two from time to time, to find the one...
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