Public Talk on Chinese Genealogy
May 12, 2011 3:39:47 GMT -5
Post by wongjf on May 12, 2011 3:39:47 GMT -5
Dear Sir/Madam,
We are pleased to invite you and members of your family and friends to the following public talk organised by Centre for Extension Education, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman(UTAR-CEE).
Title : Chinese Genealogy: Trace your Ancestry and Chart your Family Tree
Speaker : Ir. Dr. Philip Tan
Date : 28 May 2011 (Saturday)
Time : 10.00am - 12.00noon
Admission to the public talk is free.
Venue : Auditorium PD011, Level B1
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
No.9 Jalan Bersatu 13/4, Petaling Jaya
About the Talk:
The talk on Chinese Genealogy discuss the unique Chinese tradition of recording the family lineage, history, migration, etc in family records knows as jiapu (家谱) and zupu (族谱). The speaker, Ir. Dr. Philip Tan, intends to share with you his experiences of helping others to track their family record and construct their family tree using a simple yet effectve way he and his genealogist associates has invented. Tan will also show you the wealth of information you can extract from your family record even if you cannot read or write Chinese and why it is important that you and the Chinese community in general should start keeping proper family record for the benefit of future generations. The talk will also help you to translate Chinese dates into the Gregorian calendar we are using today and vice versa.
About the Speaker:
Ir. Dr. Philip Tan is a Member of Industrial Advisory Panel for Engineering Degree Programmes in Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman. An electrical engineer by profession he has been in the electricity power industry for the last 42 years and currently sits on the Energy Commission Board. Dr Tan's first got involved in Chinese family ancestry while helping his children in their school project to construct their family tree. In spite of his inability to read and write in Chinese, he succeeded in constructing back his family tree chart and his pedigree lineage all the way back to Huang Di (黄帝) in 2,697 B.C. Since then he has been researching other family lineages for the surnames e.g. Li ( 李)， Wang (王), Zhang (张), Chen (陈), Huang (黄), Lin (林), Yu (余), Zheng (郑), Tan (谭), Wu (吴), Mei (梅), Chee (朱), and Kuang (邝).
For registration, please Email/Fax/Telephone and provide us your name, organisation and contact details (Tel/Mobile/Email) by 19 May 2011. Email: ceetalkpj@utar.edu.my Fax: (603) 7957 3818 Mobile (6016) 2233563 Tel: (603) 7957 2818
We are pleased to invite you and members of your family and friends to the following public talk organised by Centre for Extension Education, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman(UTAR-CEE).
Title : Chinese Genealogy: Trace your Ancestry and Chart your Family Tree
Speaker : Ir. Dr. Philip Tan
Date : 28 May 2011 (Saturday)
Time : 10.00am - 12.00noon
Admission to the public talk is free.
Venue : Auditorium PD011, Level B1
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
No.9 Jalan Bersatu 13/4, Petaling Jaya
About the Talk:
The talk on Chinese Genealogy discuss the unique Chinese tradition of recording the family lineage, history, migration, etc in family records knows as jiapu (家谱) and zupu (族谱). The speaker, Ir. Dr. Philip Tan, intends to share with you his experiences of helping others to track their family record and construct their family tree using a simple yet effectve way he and his genealogist associates has invented. Tan will also show you the wealth of information you can extract from your family record even if you cannot read or write Chinese and why it is important that you and the Chinese community in general should start keeping proper family record for the benefit of future generations. The talk will also help you to translate Chinese dates into the Gregorian calendar we are using today and vice versa.
About the Speaker:
Ir. Dr. Philip Tan is a Member of Industrial Advisory Panel for Engineering Degree Programmes in Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman. An electrical engineer by profession he has been in the electricity power industry for the last 42 years and currently sits on the Energy Commission Board. Dr Tan's first got involved in Chinese family ancestry while helping his children in their school project to construct their family tree. In spite of his inability to read and write in Chinese, he succeeded in constructing back his family tree chart and his pedigree lineage all the way back to Huang Di (黄帝) in 2,697 B.C. Since then he has been researching other family lineages for the surnames e.g. Li ( 李)， Wang (王), Zhang (张), Chen (陈), Huang (黄), Lin (林), Yu (余), Zheng (郑), Tan (谭), Wu (吴), Mei (梅), Chee (朱), and Kuang (邝).
For registration, please Email/Fax/Telephone and provide us your name, organisation and contact details (Tel/Mobile/Email) by 19 May 2011. Email: ceetalkpj@utar.edu.my Fax: (603) 7957 3818 Mobile (6016) 2233563 Tel: (603) 7957 2818
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