Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can trace my Chan family. There are no old relatives and I am wondering how one finds records and clan homes.
Tracing the Chan family from Jiangmen
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Alexandra
, Apr 28 2005 04:44 AM
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Posted 28 April 2005 - 04:44 AM
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Posted 28 April 2005 - 06:25 AM
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can trace my Chan family. There are no old relatives and I am wondering how one finds records and clan homes.
I thought you said you were English?
And Chan...could you post the character for it?
Also, read my post on your other topic about different dialects.
Cheers!
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Posted 28 April 2005 - 08:23 AM
Take note that Jiangmen (江门) is in Guangdong province and people there speaks cantonese.
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Posted 29 April 2005 - 06:29 AM
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can trace my Chan family. There are no old relatives and I am wondering how one finds records and clan homes.
I am English, my husband is Chinese, I look on his Chinese family as mine and refer to it in the same way as I do my own English family.
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Posted 03 May 2005 - 12:54 AM
I am English, my husband is Chinese, I look on his Chinese family as mine and refer to it in the same way as I do my own English family.
Well, you had me a bit confused there
as I thought my eyes were failing me (hehe, spending too much time goggling the screen).Please do refer to your topic "Totally Totally Confused" to see what I found out about your husband's hometown.
If you want to trace genealogy, give www.apex.net.au a try. They give info and resources on tracing the genealogies of Taishanese.
p.s. just a suggestion, why don't u post your pic in the topic "Members' Photos" in the Dragon Gate Inn forum?
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