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Post by vince1984 on Sept 3, 2011 3:29:45 GMT -5
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Post by tyuti1668 on Sept 3, 2011 4:28:00 GMT -5
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Post by christine on Sept 16, 2011 15:45:42 GMT -5
Hi Vince, Since you are trying to find something in the LDS catalog, I wanted to let you know that many of the genealogies are not digitized online but are part of the physical collection in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The catalog reflects a few entries for Chinese genealogies of Raoping area (your ancestral region). You may want to look further in to this. You may want to contact Sister Chan at changh@familysearch.org, she is very friendly and fluent in English and Chinese and can read Chinese genealogies. She may be able to help you look at these particular records to see if they relate to your ancestors, and if so, you might be able to get images of the pages or even request to borrow the item by having your local LDS FHC borrow it from Salt Lake. Here are entries of genealogy books that are specific to Raoping: familysearch.org/search/search/index/catalog-search#searchType=catalog&filtered=true&collectionId=&fed=false&page=1&catSearchType=keywords&searchCriteria=%E9%A5%92%E5%B9%B3&placeName=&author_givenName=&author_surname=&topic1=Family+Trees~GenealogyThe first one says it's a Raoping church genealogy, which, given your ancestors' heavy involvement in the church, may prove useful. Also, when I searched for your Zheng/"Te" surname and narrowed by family trees, Chinese, there were a TON familysearch.org/search/search/index/catalog-search#searchType=catalog&filtered=true&collectionId=&fed=false&page=1&catSearchType=keywords&searchCriteria=%E9%84%AD%E6%B0%8F&placeName=&author_givenName=&author_surname=&topic0=Family+Trees of hits. Some are general, for Guangdong only and some are for specific areas. This is too much for me to filter through without sufficient Chinese literacy. So I searched more narrowly, and put together your Zheng/TE surname with "Thailand" in Chinese, since your folks moved to Thailand, and got TWO hits: familysearch.org/search/search/index/catalog-search#searchType=catalog&filtered=true&collectionId=&fed=false&page=1&catSearchType=keywords&searchCriteria=%E9%84%AD%E6%B0%8F+%E6%B3%B0%E5%9C%8B&placeName=&author_givenName=&author_surname=These two hits might do you well. You may also want to try looking for the Pan surname too, but just do one thing at a time. Remember most of the time women were not included in genealogies anyway, so you would have to know the names of your female ancestors' father or her brother(s) to trace accurately. Keep in mind that a lot of these are on microfilm, which is tedious to go through, and it's all in Chinese. If you can borrow the reels, you should first get help figuring out what to borrow, so you are looking at the best possible suspects. Then upon borrowing them, you should get help reading them. See if your local Family History Center has Chinese-literate staff, or find a friend who can read Chinese. I don't know to what extent Sister Chan can help, but it doesn't hurt to ask her for guidance as far what reels to consider and for any further advice. You can see all the FHC's in England (you are in England right?) here: www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhc/frameset_fhc.aspJust know that if you are looking through microfilm, you should block out full days to dedicate yourself to this. I spent about 5 days in Salt Lake City cooped up in the library spinning microfilm and I had barely scraped the surface (I was looking for a lot of stuff though...) I hope this helps!
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Post by praneat7 on Sept 12, 2018 11:57:19 GMT -5
Hello, spotted your post while googling for Swatow or Shantou. Your grandfather’s birth year and you being a Chinese Thai caught my eyes. Don’t even know whether you still follow this site. My father was born in 1908 about a week before Chinese New Year that year. He used to go to Chinese association in Bangkok. My older siblings were born in China, believed were in Shantou. Others were born in Thailand. We are Teochew. Were you from Bangkok? Did you have luck tracing your ancestors? I am trying to trace my Chinese roots also. Have a great day.
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Post by bea on Mar 27, 2019 8:44:37 GMT -5
My last name is mai some what similar to Vince only thing our great grand father is a priest then came Japanese occupation some flee out of China and understand from my late father the relative is in Hong Kong Thailand and Indonesia all lost contact
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Post by gchang on Dec 13, 2019 2:32:28 GMT -5
Hi Vince, I noted your thread is from 2011 but here I am in 2019 about to go to Shantou where my grandfather was born before he migrated to Malaysia. I am from Australia and I noticed some of the Chinese surname is the same - “ 鄭 Traditional character - we go by last name Chang. Apparently this name was not common in Shantou from what I can see? Maybe this helps somehow. This is the only information that I have. All I know was that my gradfather was a POW with his wife.
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Post by gchang on Dec 13, 2019 2:42:11 GMT -5
鄭煥泉 Zhènghuànquán
Sorry this was my grandfathers name I think
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