FamilySearch.org helps us meet a cousin from Hong Kong
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 been able to meet any other way. FamilySearch.org operates under the philosophy that it is better to work together on one shared tree, rather than having everyone build and maintain their own pedigree chart. (As you do in Ancestry.com) While some people find it disconcerting to realize that people can make edits to the records of [...]
The Miracle on the Door
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Connecting with our Goo Ancestors and Living Relatives
In the spring of 2021, after having completed several important milestones in the project of extracting ancestral records from our Zhuo clan jiapus and zupus, I asked Louise to see if she could go back through the records and find information about the fathers and mothers of any of the women who had married into the Zhuo clan. In Chinese genealogy, this is highly unusual. In Chinese genealogy, the male family members, who carry the family surname, are considered to be the only ones of importance to the clan, and therefore they are the ones who are recorded in detail [...]
Meet the Family: King Zhuang of Chu
King Zhuang of Chu was one of our ancestors. King Zhuang of Chu (Chinese: 楚莊王; pinyin: Chǔ Zhuāng Wáng, reigned 613-591 BC) was a monarch of the Zhou Dynasty State of Chu during the Spring and Autumn period in ancient China. His personal name was Xiong Lü (Chinese: 熊旅; pinyin: Xióng Lǚ), his ancestral name was Mi (Chinese: 芈; pinyin: Mǐ), and his posthumous title was King Zhuang. He was one of the five rulers dubbed the Five Hegemons by Xunzi and attempted to wrest control of China from King Ding of Zhou.[1] The son of King Mu of Chu, Zhuang ascended the throne in 613 BC. According to a legend in the Records of the Grand Historian, for the first three years of his reign Zhuang wasted time in pleasure seeking, [...]
Zhuo/Chock has an updated Jia Pu
At the end of a week of celebrations for Chinese New Year 2019, our researcher, Louise Skyles, called the number on the front door of the family temple and reached Mr. Zhuo Bing Quan. He is a retired educator who has been working for many years on an expanded, comprehensive jia pu for the Zhuo/Chock family. He has interviewed many of the descendants who still live in China, and was able to compile a remarkable document. After he was satisfied that Louise was representing a member of the family (she had to explain my lineage to him before he would discuss [...]
The Chock/Zhuo family: royal lineage
In mid-January 2019, I contacted a Chinese genealogist and research specialist named Louise Skyles. She had been of great assistance to our friend, George Huang, helping him trace his genealogy back hundreds of years, and she was highly recommended by him. My two objectives were: Locate our family's ancestral village so we could travel there and try to find any data that might be in the graveyards, and hopefully find someone there who remembered my father's family and could share stories with us. Find out how we can find additional records that predate the 1140 AD commencement of our jia [...]