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Post by andrewAU on Sept 11, 2015 9:03:26 GMT -5
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Post by lachinatown on Sept 11, 2015 10:19:07 GMT -5
Give credit where credit is due. Our member christine is/was involved with the www.rootsdb.org/ site, which provides information from the participants of the "In Search of Roots" program. The map is believed to have come from that site. More information: siyigenealogy.proboards.com/thread/1405/introducing-new-genealogy-website-rootsdbWe discussed this before. We would like to see a reverse or sortable index where one can sort the names of the villages by Chinese characters, romanization, pinyin or others. |
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Post by andrewAU on Sept 11, 2015 22:20:28 GMT -5
Thanks lachinatown, and thanks for the work Christine. We have found this very useful.
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Post by Henry on Sept 12, 2015 17:59:39 GMT -5
Dear Colleagues, I would like to clarify any possible confusion about the Village Database / Village DB [ villagedb.friendsofroots.org/about.html ] & the In Search of Roots Village Database [ www.rootsdb.org/ ] from what I know about these two sources of ancestral village names & locations. The Village DB is derived from the Index of Clan Names By Villages published by the American Consulate General in Hong Kong during the 1960s & 1970s. The four indexes are for Toishan, Hoiping, Sunwui, and Chungshan and have over 9,000 villages listed. This database is valuable because this information reflects the village names found in much of the immigration and other documentary sources that Chinese genealogy researchers encounter. The In Search of Roots Village Database includes probably 300 personally-visited villages by interns from the In Search of Roots program. These are villages are important because the interns have toured their ancestral villages and met their clansmen & relatives. Henry |
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Post by lachinatown on Sept 12, 2015 21:25:15 GMT -5
Thank you Henry for the clarifications.
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Post by rhew on Oct 2, 2015 16:33:59 GMT -5
Dear lachinatown & Christine: When I made my map of the Hakka villages, I made 2 separate display versions, one with the Hakka names and one with the Mandarin names . Both point to and are based on the same database. So if a user wants to see the list alphabetized in mandarin they use the mandarin map/display. If they want the alphabetical Hakka list, they use that one. I would think that the people behind the In Search of Roots Village Database could do the same thing. Unfortunately the software package I used does not support Chinese characters, but I am now exploring porting it over to the Google-centric one to take advantage of that feature. |
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Post by lachinatown on Oct 2, 2015 18:17:10 GMT -5
Rhew, the Mandarin one takes me to "This Connection is Untrusted" site.
So how do you input to the map? Would it work with the Chinese version?
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Post by rhew on Oct 2, 2015 18:23:36 GMT -5
The tool I used is www.mapalist.com . You create/upload/convert a spreadsheet containing the lat/long co-ordinates to a Google Sheet saved in your (free) Google Drive and use mapalist to display them. Couldn't be simpler. Mapping for Dummies. BUT it can't display Chinese characters. The mandarin map is on the same site as the Hakka one. I believe they are safe: perhaps a certificate is out of date.... |
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Post by lachinatown on Oct 2, 2015 19:58:18 GMT -5
Now it is OK. Thanks, Rhew.
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