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...
by Susan Chock Salgy | 19,Aug,2021 | Ching Ming, Chock Chin's grave, Genealogy Research, History, Tang Clan
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...
by Susan Chock Salgy | 18,Aug,2021 | Family Miracles, History, The Kings of Chu, Zhuo Clan
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 gap came about in the Cultural...
