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Post by helen on Nov 21, 2013 4:32:53 GMT -5
Hi Harc - yes Eddie had to come back to Auckland. His wife has retired now, so they go on outings every day.
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Post by kublia on Dec 26, 2013 19:29:25 GMT -5
Hi,
I have Chinese ancestry and we were told growing up, our line was from the Great Walled City. Where as there is so much pure BS on planet earth I wondered if I were being taken for an idiot. However, my autosomal DNA tests reveal this is likely true.
Here's what I was told. Two young ladies, princesses as it were, were told by the Priest who raised them to get out of the Royal City as a new lady had been brought into the courts and she was having people killed. This apparently happened in the 1830s or 40s. My ancestor, named for a flower, and her cousin left with a British Ship and guards, and were given money and jewels to make their way to a safe house in England.
The ship went no further than SF, CA, and there they were told to wait until a ship came, to take them further. Both being young and hard headed bought a coach, supplies and horses, and with their 3 man guard, headed across the US, a very dangerous thing in that time. They made it as far as the "great river", where a gang of outlaws showed up. The guards gave into the outlaws and sold them into slavery. My ancestor later showed up in Montgomery Co., NC where she had been sold to a local plantation owner a Mr. DeBerry. (Montgomery County, NC Heritage Book, one of the 4 volumes) . DeBerry's wife made him get rid of her. She as literate and no doubt smarter than DeBerry, and she left Chinese items written in Chinese.
A next door neighbour to Mr. DeBerry, a William Mills, had recently lost his wife and was having a hard time caring for his child and other young children, so DeBerry gave her to William Mills. She was given an American name and lived with Mills. She was said to be very nice looking. She and Mills had a son named Robert Mills born about 1856. Robert Mills is my ggrandfather, I am 75 years old. I am 1/16 Chinese, and I knew she had said we came from Ghangis or Kublia Khan.
The autosomal DNA test backs up the 1/16 , but her genes were Finnish, Ural, Vulga, with a trace of Asian. That's apparently from the Khan boys. My father looked the role, and a lot like the Emporer Po, who I feel we must share genes with. I suspect the changing of the Chinese Emporers, involved the hanging on to the young ladies of the older order. Else it would make no sense.
Is there any way I can check my DNA against the Chinese lines? I have several DNA tests already, 23&me, ftdna, ancestry.com and doing more, I plan to do them all. I have this uploaded to Gedmatch.com and made public. My kits at gedmatch.com are A110102 and A169137. Please check to see if any of you match any of my genes. How can I test this against Po's line, or other lines from the Great Walled City?
Is it possible some of you will test my autosomal SNBs and see if we are related? Because this line is up close in time, we could test as close as 4th cousins, and solve this. There is no way the cowboys saved the Chinese Princess. It just didn't happen. She died in Montgomery Co., NC, aged, but she loved her sSbAnRPovhrhxOEu83AxzEIggZsfMziNchildren, at times making them special Chinese hair styles. She said these hairstyles belonged to special times of the year.
So did I come from Kublia Khan, or just get conned?
Thank you for a reply before hand. I have some pictures, not of her, but her grandchildren. Would any one like to see them?
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Post by teehudkins on Feb 26, 2014 15:04:15 GMT -5
I am helping my brother and sister-in-law complete her part of our tree although she doesnt have much info and hard for me not understanding chinese if you could help with any of these names pls let me kmow, thx!!
Sister-in-law is Ming Y Zhu Here is the info she gave.. My mothers mom n dad: Yan xiu Juan Zhang shou fu Father's mom n dad: GAO Jing zhi Zhu ji fan Also two grandparents married from both sides in their 50s: 朱济凡。闫慧娟 Her parents are: Zhang Jue li and Zhu Xiao Shan 张觉力 朱晓山
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Post by wynnie on Mar 9, 2014 21:16:17 GMT -5
Where do chinese register the birth certificates of their children? My grandfather gave the name Yap Tonglo (born August 7,1924), Yap Tong Ya , Yap Tong Chiok (born between 1914 and 1916)and etc.to his sons. All born in the Philippines. I'm sure he reported their births in China. Is there a way to check the report of birth of my father in China National Statistics Office or Amoy, Civil Registry or Sheyicun, Shishanzhen, Nan'an, Quanzhou, Fujian, China Civil Registry? Or Yap Zupu or Jiapu in Amoy or Sheyicun?
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Post by laohuaqiao on Mar 10, 2014 0:26:19 GMT -5
Wynnie, I think the only reports your grandfather made of the births of his children were in the forms of letters to his parents or other relatives in the village. Any updates to the Ye/Yap clan zupu/jiapu afterwards should have entries for his sons. The question is whether any copies of the zupu/jiapu exist. A copy of the zupu could have ended up in the zupu collection in the Shanghai Library.
However, calling (in Mandarin Chinese) the administrative office of Sheyicun is the most direct way to find out, 0595-86482429.
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Post by hchlee on Jul 27, 2014 15:47:34 GMT -5
Hello, sorry to bring up a relatively dead thread, but I was wondering if anyone has tried to persuade FamilySearch to begin indexing these records? I feel that the greatest problem for me is that I have to go through so many zupus just to look for a name. If we could possibly get a team together which is willing to just transcribe the names of the 公s and their 子, we'd probably help a lot of people, even if they are not our direct relations.
Do any of you know of a project like this? I would like to contribute because, at the moment, I have to do exactly this--go through manually and write down each name in the hope that one will match with the ones I know are my direct ancestors.
Do tell me your thoughts. I hope I made sense.
Thank you!
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Post by Doug 周 on Jul 28, 2014 9:51:03 GMT -5
FamilySearch has groups of contributors. Organizing their analog files is one of a group's purpose, iirc. However, I long forgot how to reach them; I have a hard time navigating their website, and when I finally learn, they rename and reorganize their site again. You cannot automatically download the whole manuscript; this would make studying the files much easier. Instead you have to download one page at a time. Then the site/computer/cache gets overloaded and drops you out of the page you are studying. liuyao siyigenealogy.proboards.com/user/1709 has digitized 22k profiles from FamilySearch and uploaded them into Geni. If the surname you are looking for matches his work, then you're in luck
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Post by laohuaqiao on Jul 29, 2014 11:45:06 GMT -5
hchlee, In your case, you know your ancestral village and its location in Tai Po in Hong Kong. Have you contacted the village? That should always be one of the first source of information.
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