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Post by limsoonhoe on Nov 2, 2016 9:53:58 GMT -5
HiPhilip,
Good to hear from you.
My ancestors came from 錦里 which is just 5km from Amoy (Xiamen), Fujian in 1825.
I just found out from a friend that based on my list of names of mu ancestors, it seems that the most relevant or the closest match are from the GUANG DONG CHAO YANG XIAN YANG and GUANG DONG JIE YANG MU SHU lineages.
I am quite stunned because we were from Fujian (福建) and not GD.
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Post by philiptancl on Nov 3, 2016 8:18:27 GMT -5
Limsoonhoe, What exactly is your interest? Is it to fine just your generation poem for your Lim Clan in錦里 Xiamen, Fujian or are you interested find your Lim clan ancestral records from there? Is the location of 錦里 as shown on the map attached?
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Post by limsoonhoe on Nov 3, 2016 9:09:41 GMT -5
Hi Philip, Yes, thats the place. My Uncle happened to be in Xiamen recently. When I told him about this place, he made a quick detour to take some pictures: Its the same pictures you posted earlier but they have refurbished it.
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Post by limsoonhoe on Nov 3, 2016 10:01:46 GMT -5
Hi Philip, To answer your question, yes, I would like to find my generation and which lineage we were from. I suppose or I am hoping the ancestral temple there would have records or the zupu? My uncle took a picture of this: Can you tell me what is this? Thanks!
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Post by philiptancl on Nov 4, 2016 18:23:32 GMT -5
Dear Limsoonhoe,
I think that is a board listing people from this Lim clan that had contributed the amounts indicated towards a certain fund. You mentioned that the ancestral hall had been refurbished; I imagine that board could be for displaying those who donated had what amount towards it.
Now that you know where your ancestral hall is and in which ancestral place, it should be easy for you to go there to find out your generation poem and whether the zupu of your Lim clan still exists or have been updated residing. Where are you residing? If in SE Asia, it will quite easy for you to go there and find out. Yours is in Xiamen itself. When I go to mine (Hushan (岵山) in Yongchun (永春) county), it would take about 2 hours by bus from Xiamen using the new highways.
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Post by maychitfie26 on Dec 15, 2016 18:08:52 GMT -5
He is my grandfather. I'm looking for his family in china. Attachments:
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Post by willos on Dec 27, 2016 4:22:14 GMT -5
Hi Philip - I'm trying to do some research on my wife's family, with limited success. The only information we have to go on is that her great-grandfather, 林木通, was born in 仙都 in 潮安. We also know from the tombstone that he was born inside the mansion of a scholar (状元府内), which I assume must mean (given the village and the reference) that it was the mansion of 林大钦. However, we have nothing else to go on. Do you have any advice on how we might proceed?
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Post by philiptancl on Jan 11, 2017 19:50:36 GMT -5
Hi Willos I see Gckimm had replied to your post within the thread siyigenealogy.proboards.com/thread/2499/started-limited-informationon Dec 28, 2016. If you are from Singapore, I would suggest that you make a trip to your wife’s ancestral place to search out her family tree and to locate the zupu of her particular Lim clan. If they were many Lim clan people from this particular place had settled in Singapore, some clan members in Singapore or its clan association (if any) could be organizing annual trips there at a selected date to pay respect to your wife earlier ancestors. I just came back from one organized every year during Winter solstice (Dec 21, 2016). About 70 Tan clan members (Yongchun, Hushan Nan Chen Clan) from Malaysia went last December, some for the first time to trace their branch of family tree. The lunch banquet at the main ancestral hall was for 135 tables. Winter solstice is a busy period. I saw may quite many other surname clans in Yongchun as well. Philip
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Post by maggie on Jan 29, 2017 8:31:57 GMT -5
Hi, my grandma's mothers name was Lim Sin Njo, she married a german man (my fathers grandfather) and my grandmother was born in Indonesia... I have only one or two pictures of her and want to find out more. No clue where to search or begin, as there is almost no information, no stories and most relatives are already deceased...
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Post by helen on Jan 29, 2017 18:54:25 GMT -5
Hi, my grandma's mothers name was Lim Sin Njo, she married a german man (my fathers grandfather) and my grandmother was born in Indonesia... I have only one or two pictures of her and want to find out more. No clue where to search or begin, as there is almost no information, no stories and most relatives are already deceased... Hi Maggie - please start a new thread - otherwise this will get lost in here. Please provide more information - years, places, any photos, headstones, documentations? Where did she marry - seems odd for a woman to marry outside her roots. Any siblings. We need more clues for a starting place. Good luck.
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Post by philiptancl on Jan 29, 2017 22:24:02 GMT -5
Hi Maggie,
In most cases, just knowing your great grandmother’s name (Lim Sin Njo) would not be enough. You normally need to know the names of her male relatives even if you know the ancestral village in China they were from. From the name, it is likely her father’s ancestral place is in Fujian. That itself is not enough. You still need the correct haystack to look for the needle among the massive number of Lim haystacks in Fujian. Even if you can locate her grave, tradition would show the ancestral place of her husband, not hers.
I know my grandmother’s name, Lim Mui (林梅 ), and her ancestral village she originated from. I also have the complete 22 branches of her ancestral place zupu. Without any clue of any of her male relative names, I cannot fix her ancestral lineage with any degree of certainty.
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Post by mqlam1 on Apr 22, 2017 14:44:00 GMT -5
Hi,
Wow, this forum is interesting. I have always thought that Lim/Lam chinese were only rooted in the teochew within the chaoshan region. So much information. Where do i start to look further into this?
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Post by mqlam1 on Apr 22, 2017 15:58:23 GMT -5
My grandmother was my only tie back to Diê⁵ziu¹ and she has passed. But, from her translation, she was boought up in a village name that is translated to "home sand" or "sand top".. any help?
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Post by philiptancl on Apr 27, 2017 6:56:57 GMT -5
Hi Mglam1,
Get the name of the places you mentioned in Chinese characters, as well as the names of you Lim/Lam ancestors that you know in Chinese characters. Once you locate your correct ancestral village in Teochew, you can either make a trip there to locate your clan ancestral hall and your genealogy book or you can get someone to do that for you. If you prefer the latter, send me a personal message through this Forum.
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Post by car846 on May 7, 2017 8:25:47 GMT -5
Does anybody knows LIM TIAK CHING from Amoy, China who went to Cebu, Philippines sometime early 1900s? This is all the info i got.
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