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 Google [...]
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 [...]
We were privileged to meet several members of our extended Goo family in January 2022. I had been corresponding quite a bit with Gerry Goo Nihipali about her Goo/Gu pedigree and our common ancestors, since Louise Skyles connected the missing pieces and was able [...]
The beautiful thing about having a lot of family records in the familysearch.org tree is that it provides the opportunity for people with similar surnames from similar places to find them and wonder if/how they might be related. That is how Aaron Hee made [...]
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 [...]
The Chinese New Year arrived on 16 February 2018. This is the 4715th Chinese year. According to the Chinese horoscope calendar, 2018 is the Male Earth Dog year. The color brown is associated with the earth, so another name for 2018 is the Year [...]
George Gordon Chock was the only child of George Chock and his first wife, Edith Elizabeth Maes. Gordon was born on 30 April 1930 in Dillon, Montana. This was Edith's second marriage, so Gordon had three older step-sisters, Margaret, Mary Ann, and Marvel Reddington. [...]
Dorothy Chock - 1916 Dorothy Kam Mew Chock was born on 25 August 1897 in Hanalei to Chock Chin and Hee Shee (2nd Chinese wife). She was the 2nd child, having an older sister named Katherine Kam Ho Chock, born in 1896. [...]
Susan Chock, Harry Wong, Nee Chang Chock Wong -- Honolulu 1981 Nee Chang Chock was the daughter of Chock Chin and his third Chinese wife, Chun Shee. She was born on 17 February 1908 in Hanalei, and was married to Harry Chow Wong on [...]
This photo was in George Chock's photo album, and had the date 7 Feb 1943 on the back, but the people were not identified. Fortunately, Bob Chinn has identified them for me (thanks, Bob!), These are the children of Wilfred and Violet Chock. [...]
