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Post by fchiu on Jan 2, 2011 1:37:27 GMT -5
thank you Henry. I did it
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Post by fchiu on Jan 2, 2011 1:39:39 GMT -5
Thank you Henry...
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Post by Henry on Jan 2, 2011 12:10:25 GMT -5
Hi fchiu, As I cannot read or write Chinese, we will have to wait for one of our Chinese literate Forum members to translate the information on the document - posted on page 2 of this thread: siyigenealogy.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=names&thread=1243&page=2#7996I know a couple characters and your Chinese surname Zhao/Chiu is the one that is ranked number 8 on this list: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_Chinese_surnamesI hope this document will identify which village in Xinhui (Sunwui) county) where your grandfather was born. If the name of that village is identified & located - then contact can be made with your ancestral village and your village relatives can be identified and it may be possible to acquire a copy of your family genealogy book. If not, are there Chinese characters inscribed on your grandfather's gravestone - the village name may be included. The last resort is to hire a person to call and check the 26 villages in Xinhui county where the Chui surname is the exclusive and/or dominant surname for the village. The 26 villages are identified in the Village Database: www.c-c-c.org/villagedb/search.cgiThere is a high probability that your grandfather was from one of these 26 villages, however, the Village Database may not include the names of all the villages that Chinese emigrants came from Guangdong province. Henry
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Post by Woodson on Jan 2, 2011 20:11:31 GMT -5
He didn't give the name of his village. Please try the tombstone as Henry suggested.
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Post by fchiu on Jan 6, 2011 11:30:14 GMT -5
Ok, I going to see all these addresses on line and I going to make a phono call for check the headstone because it is in mexico city and I live in canada right now.
Thank you and I'll give you news...
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Post by laohuaqiao on Jan 9, 2011 8:36:25 GMT -5
fchiu, I just want to give a very brief history of the people in the Pearl River Delta, in which the counties of Siyi (Xinhui, Taishan, Kaiping and Enping) are located and the significant role the Chiu/Zhao 趙 clans in Xinhui and in nearby Taishan played in that history. I'm not a historian, can't vouch for the accuracy of some of the details, but it's an interesting story nonetheless.
Chiu/Zhao was the family surname of the emperors of the Song Dynasty (years 960-1279).
Toward the latter part of the dynasty, China was under constant attacks from the north, creating unrests in central China. By 1250s, the Mongols had taken over much of China and there was a mass migration of to the less inhabited Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province in the south. Some descendants of the royal family, escaping from the Mongols, were among the migrants who settled in the present Xinhui region.
Song loyalists continued to support other descendants of the royal family and temporarily established a small kingdom in Fujian province. Soon that royal family and their supporters were forced to leave Fujian by the advancing Mongolian army. They were finally cornered and defeated by the Mongols in the great naval battle of Yamen 崖門 in Xinhui in 1279, ending the Song Dynasty. The surviving royal family members, spared by the Mongols, settled in Xinhui. It has been said some (possibly even the boy emperor) fearing danger, changed their surname to Lam/Lin 林, thus there are some dual-surname, Chiu-Lam/Zhao-Lin , villages in Xinhui.
One location they settled was in present town of Gujing 古井. Gujing is well-known for its roast goose, its recipe being one legacy left behind by the Song royal chefs.
The Chiu/Zhao's in Xinhui actually descended from 2 separate lineages of the Song royal family, arriving nearly 30 years apart.
For more information, look up Song Dynasty. Woodson mentioned some of this in his website legacy1.net in the history of Xinhui.
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Post by fchiu on Jan 11, 2011 20:27:22 GMT -5
Ok, thank you Woodson, thank you laohuaqiao.
I going to check all this information and I will give you news...
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