pls help me google map this fuk wah village

[morkie]

i found my village from the village database. thanks.

County 台山
Toishan
Tái Shān
toi4 saan1
06691472
Area 3
Heung 稠山鄉
Chau Shan Heung
Chóu Shān Xiāng
cau4 saan1 hoeng1
4464-1472-6763
Subheung
田稠鄉
Tin Chau Heung
Tián Chóu Xiāng
tin4 cau4 hoeng1
3944-4464-6763

Contains 7 Villages:

2. 復華 / Fuk Wah / Fù Huā / fuk6 waa4 / 1788-5478 (白 / Pak / Bái / baak6 / 4101)

[laohuaqiao]

I think 復華 is/has been renamed as Fuhua 伏华 or 伏華 in traditional characters.

广东省江门市台山市 斗山镇 田稠村委会伏华村

It's coordinates are "22.0555, 112.8895" for search on google maps. (Note: the coordinates are referenced to map view, there is a discrepancy between map and satellite view.)

[Doug 周]

As an aside for others using the village database:

Translating the many words for the village and various heungs represent: Wade Giles romanization(?), Pinyin Mandarin romanization with intonation marks, Jyupting Cantonese romanization with intonation numbers, and the STC code which was an earlier US government coding method similar to Unicode. The STC is probably archaic. In the past, it was a way for Western people to recognize Chinese characters.

Give thanks to the thoroughness of Dominic Yu, who started this project a decade ago, and which overseas people of Chinese heritage world wide use to this day.

Doug

[morkie]

thanks for the replies...let me try to understand how to use coordinates on google map now.

[morkie]

yes...i found it. I just put those coordinates on search. now...if I were to go there from hkg using a ferry or bus stop, are there taxis readily available or do i need to find someone local to bring me to the village...what would the average cost of taxi be US dollars/Cdn dollars? thanks so much.

[laohuaqiao]

Fuhua 伏华 is located around midway between Doushan 斗山 town center and Douhu 都斛 town center. I don't think there's any hotel in either place, so the best place to stay is in Taicheng or Taishan City. China Travel Service has daily buses from Hong Kong to Taicheng. For the trip from Taishan to Fuhua, I would suggest hiring a car service, in which the driver will wait for your return trip, rather than a metered taxi. You're notgoing to be able to hail a taxi once you're outside of Taicheng. Fuhua is 30-40 km from Taicheng, I think it'll cost 200-300 yuans, under $50, negotiate the price beforehand. Ask the hotel reception for car service info.

[Henry]

Doug,

Dominic Yu, as the database administrator, has certainly facilitated the access and enhanced the Village DB, however, it was primarily Him Mark Lai who recognized the value of the information from the Village DB and initiated the establishment of this basic resource for researching Chinese genealogy.

The Villiage DB website states:

" Thanks to Him Mark Lai for wanting this to happen in the first place; to Beatrice Yu, for setting up the groundwork; and to Tony Tong, for coordinating the project in its current form."

For more details, see:

rootsdb.org/him-mark-lai


Henry