She zupu - from Zhuo Bing Quan 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, [...]
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 [...]
Susan Chock Salgy Chock Lun - publisher of the Chinese of Hawaii 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 [...]
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 [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8342tHnK4gg In the final part of this 2-part series, historian Brian Dillon details the experience of the Chinese immigrants who came to California in the 19th century. Unlike the supportive and welcoming experience Chock Chin and other Chinese immigrants had in the Kingdom of [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn9fjgBSCDY This is an outstanding presentation by historian Brian Dillon, recorded on August 14, 2021. It offers the historical context for the Chinese migration from Guangdong to the Kingdom, and later the Territory, of Hawaii. This directly informs our understanding of Chock Chin's [...]
Chinese Migration to America, historian Brian Dillon explained that only 10% of Chinese migrants to California who came in the 19th century to work on the railroad, search for gold, etc., can be found in California cemeteries. This is because Chinese who leave their [...]
The Clan name: Zhuo Zhuo Bing Quan researched for Zhuo family records after he retired from his career as a school principal in Guan Tang Village. He felt a great desire to fill in the gap for Zhuo family Guan Tang jia pu. The [...]
Patrick Cheuk and family - 2021 L-R, Back row: Sons - Eliot Justin, Chaim Jason, M Joshua,L-R, Front row: Patrick, Maria, Kaytlyn (wife of M Joshua) Having a shared family tree is a brilliant way to meet people you would never have [...]
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