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Post by jackie on Dec 27, 2010 2:34:53 GMT -5
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Post by helen on Dec 27, 2010 3:29:06 GMT -5
What dialect do you speak? Do you have any photos of headstones with Chinese writing? Sounds like you are from Toisan Searching for villages whose name begins with "Lung Chau Tam". www.c-c-c.org/villagedb/search.cgi5 龍舟潭 / Lung Chau aka 蓮洲 / Lin Chau (陳 / Chan |
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Post by laohuaqiao on Dec 27, 2010 8:57:29 GMT -5
As Helen pointed out, the Chin/Chan/Chen village is 龍舟潭 Lung Chau aka 蓮洲 Lin Chau in 六村鄉 Luk Chuen Heung in 斗山 Doushan in 台山 Taishan.
The modern day address is 广东省江门市台山市斗山镇莲洲村委会莲洲村 529224
Guangdong province, Jiangmen City, Taishan City, Doushan Township, Lianzhou Village Administration, Lianzhou Cun 529224
You can locate the Lianzhou Cun village on maps.google.com (Map View not Satellite) by its latitude and longitude coordinates "22.076, 112.829". It's a short walk from Doushan Town, which is about 20 miles south of Taishan City center.
Many Chins/Chans in North America originated from Luk Chuen Heung. Every Chinatown in major cities should have a Chin/Chan Family Association 致孝篤親回. Members in the association can probably provide a lot of first-hand info about Luk Chuen.
陳宜禧 Chen Yixi who built Sunning Railroad in Taishan, the second commercial railroad in China, about 100 years ago came from Luk Chuen Heung. Thus, Sunning Railroad's terminal station was in Doushan.
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Post by Henry on Dec 27, 2010 16:58:29 GMT -5
Hi Jackie, Welcome to the Forum, My colleagues Helen & laohuaqiao have provided you with lots of good information. I would like to contribute a map for the location of your ancestral village:  If you need a local guide in Taishan that can do your hotel reservations, guide & translate for you, take you to your ancestral village and research for your family genealogy book with the family lineage - I have a nephew living in Taishan that has performed these services for several of the people from this Forum. I can be contacted directly at: Tomclan@Gmail.com Henry |
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Post by jackie on Dec 28, 2010 3:29:23 GMT -5
Thanks Helen, laohuaqiao and Henry for your help and for the useful information that you have provided!
Henry, I'll drop you an email separately for your nephew's contact details!
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Post by daking168 on Dec 31, 2010 12:03:32 GMT -5
Jackie,
Do you have your grandfather's name? Then you can call (or find someone speaks Chinese) the phone number for ¹ã¶«Ê¡½ÃÅÊÐ̨ɽÊж·É½ÕòÁ«ÖÞ´åί»áÁ«ÖÞ´å and ask if there was such a person then you can go back visit your village.
Please send me an email at find.your.zu.pu@gmail.com if you need help.
Good Luck and happy New Year!
Daking
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Post by Henry on Jan 1, 2011 15:09:06 GMT -5
Dear Colleagues,
As of December 22, 2010 - the current administrator for the Village Database indicated that they were having issues with the host server for the Village Database and that they were trying to resolve the technical issues.
Henry
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Post by nel23 on Jan 7, 2011 7:41:34 GMT -5
sir, i am chinoy from the philippines and id like to search for my grandmother's ancestry in china. were troubled by not knowing our ancestry coz my grandmother wont usually open up discussions regarding her life when she was in china. as far as i know, my greatgrandfather is from amoy and their family name is tan. i dont know anything else beside that , but id post some pictures, so that it could be of help. i cant understand chinese, i hope someone can give some translation. ![]() [/img] Attachments:
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Post by nel23 on Jan 7, 2011 7:44:11 GMT -5
this is my grandfather Attachments:
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Post by Doug 周 on Jan 7, 2011 8:02:32 GMT -5
nel23 Try this beginner's guide in the Chinese Roots Wiki: How to Start Your Chinese Family Heritage Research<=click. Someone else will have to help with the translation. You are lucky that your elders are still alive although reticent to share. Be persistent in your interviewing & check some of the techniques. Make full use of the opportunity. Don't hesitate to post a specific question. Doug |
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Post by nel23 on Jan 8, 2011 9:03:15 GMT -5
Doug
thank you very much for the words of encouragement,i hope that someday we would be able to meet our relatives in china. and give our respects to our ancestors.
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Post by Doug 周 on Jan 8, 2011 11:16:32 GMT -5
thank you very much for the words of encouragement... We are here to help. Have your grandmother point or write out your surname. Have her write or tell you the name of your ancestral village. Use these tools in this Wiki: USING CHINESE CHARACTERS in FAMILY HERITAGE STUDIES without CHINESE LANGUAGE SKILLS<=click to digitize the characters. This initial research will direct you which part of China to display your grandfather's photo. The chance of someone the same age as your ancestor (in this English language forum) recognizing your grandfather is close to nil. Consider hiring someone to do that leg work for you. Henry<=click has a nephew named Tan ShiCheng who does this sort of local research. Send Henry a private email by clicking the icon under his photo. Search the forum for others who have used his nephew. However, you are certainly closer to the homeland than I and a visit might be easier and less costlier for you. Most importantly, give us feedback and write about your obstacles. I and others always learn from reading about peoples' family heritage research. Sincerely, Doug |
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Post by helen on Jan 8, 2011 15:19:12 GMT -5
Hi Doug - You're doing an awesome job on wiki - If only I was more computer literate. Well done
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Post by helen on Jan 8, 2011 15:38:14 GMT -5
sir, i am chinoy from the philippines and id like to search for my grandmother's ancestry in china. were troubled by not knowing our ancestry coz my grandmother wont usually open up discussions regarding her life when she was in china. as far as i know, my greatgrandfather is from amoy and their family name is tan. i dont know anything else beside that , but id post some pictures, so that it could be of help. i cant understand chinese, i hope someone can give some translation. ![]() [/img][/quote] From the back of the photo: The photo is from Chan Gay Ting Sent to his younger brother Wei Ying (Chan Wei Ying) To brother ( No 3) Ah Boon (Chan Ah Boon) To older sister Wing Jung (Chan Wing Jung) The above translation by my husband is in Cantonese, and the English translation by me, so the writing may not be exact. The surname is the same as mine, Chan. Chan is the same last name as Tan Look at ethnicity on Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_FilipinoA number of Chinese mestizos have surnames that reflect their heritage, mostly two or three syllables that have Chinese roots (e.g., the full name of a Chinese ancestor) with a Hispanized phonetic spelling. The Chinese mestizos may also be known as Tsinoys (alternatively spelled as "Chinoy"), |
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Post by Doug 周 on Jan 9, 2011 9:53:23 GMT -5
..Doug - You're doing an awesome job on wiki - ... Helen, it is not I who's doing the ChineseRootsWiki<=click, it is all of us. I am just at the keyboard. I am trying to aggregate as much of the knowledge as I could recall from reading all the posts of the regular contributors like you. There is SO much information, buried deep within the multiple entries. For example your response to Steve below I realized that I did not include the Village database<=click information into the Wiki; that prompted expanding yet another section onto the Wiki. I am lucky that I personally do not find the learning curve on doing the Wiki too steep. But again, that is why there is this forum; people of all skills and experience, from all over the world, come together and participate. Our common goal is researching our Chinese family heritage. Needless to say, I have always appreciated your entries from your personal and literary research. I wish my writing skills come easier. I thank our administrator Kevin for starting the Wiki project. I was under the impression that the same questions were getting repeatedly asked, and that the 'old hands' were less prompt in responding with the same answers (tiring out?). The Wiki allows us to (paraphrasing a computer cliche) 'write once', and let others 'read frequently'. Prompt responses to those willing to post their questions onto the forum is important. Sincerely, Doug |
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