by Susan Chock Salgy | 06,Nov,2021 | 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...
by Susan Chock Salgy | 06,Nov,2021 | She Clan
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...
by Susan Chock Salgy | 12,Oct,2021 | Chinese of Hawaii, Genealogy Research, Gu/Goo Clan, History, Migration
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...
by Susan Chock Salgy | 27,Sep,2021 | Chinese of Hawaii, Genealogy Research
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...
by Susan Chock Salgy | 03,Sep,2021 | Genealogy Research, Gu/Goo Clan, Migration
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...
