by susansalgy | Apr 13, 2024 | Family Members, Hanalei
The year 2022 has turned out to be a tremendous year of connecting with Chock cousins. I originally created this site specifically for the purpose of finding my cousins. I thought that perhaps the children or grandchildren of my father’s siblings might someday...
by susansalgy | Oct 26, 2023 | Chinese Festivals, Dong'an Huang Clan, Family Miracles
by Susan Chock Salgy Finding ancestral records in China is a complex endeavor. Sometimes it comes together neatly and you are done in a month. Other times it takes patience, persistence, prayer, and a miracle or two. Finding my great-grandmother’s ancestors took...
by susansalgy | Dec 3, 2022 | Ancestral Temples, Chinese of Hawaii, Cultural Revolution, History, She Clan, Zhuo Clan
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...
by susansalgy | Dec 2, 2022 | C. Akeoni Store, Family Members, Hanalei, 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...
by susansalgy | Nov 5, 2022 | History, The Kings of Chu, Zhuo Clan
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,...
