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
Gu Chuan Pin Migrates to Hawaii and Changes History
Gu Chuan Pin 古傳品 was one of the early immigrants from the Nazhou Gu clan who settled in Hawaii. His family's experiences in Hawaii and later in Chicago, Illinois are fascinating, because they are tied closely to the political affairs of China. Here's Gu Chuan Pin's...
The Chinese of Hawaii 檀山華僑 (Who’s Who)
Susan Chock Salgy While researching the Chock/Zhuo descendants from Guangdong who settled in Hawaii, our genealogist Louise Skyles discovered a little-known set of publications that proved to be extremely valuable at connecting families with their ancestral roots. The...
History of the Gu of Nazhou
One of my distant cousins, Trevor Goo, contacted me via the private message feature in familysearch.org in March 2021, to inquire about where I had obtained the records for some of the Gu ancestors on the tree. We exchanged information, and I put him in contact with...
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