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Post by Doug 周 on Jun 11, 2020 20:51:02 GMT -5
My mother's village is 申明亭村 The Google Map link is: www.google.com/maps/place/Shenmingtingcun,+Zhongshan,+Guangdong+Province,+China/@22.5164267,113.3019222,15.75z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x34022db5fabaacab:0x587285968291b40b!8m2!3d22.514053!4d113.311599 The coordinates from Google Map: 22.5164267,113.3019222,15.75 There are several map people on this forum who are very good using the Chinese mapping programs. They can help you.
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Post by yuklien on Jun 18, 2020 17:21:15 GMT -5
Thank you. I will do some searching when I have more time.
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Post by gckimm on Jun 22, 2020 13:26:51 GMT -5
Hi yuklien:
From my internet research it looks like the current locations of your grandparents' villages are as follows: 廣東省中山市沙溪鎮樂群村民委員會永厚村 (Mandarin: Yonghou Village, Lequn Village Committee, Shaxi Town, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province) 廣東省中山市大涌鎮南文社區居民委員會 (Mandarin: Nanwen Neighborhood Residential Committee, Dachong Town, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province)
It is difficult to keep up with geography in China. There have been so many changes in administrative divisions over the centuries and there will surely be more as time goes on. The administrative divisions themselves are complicated. I am still confused by them. For example, it looks like Nanwen Neighborhood is administered by the Nanwen Neighborhood Residential Committee but the committee seems to be part of the address.
If you Google the Chinese characters, you will see their locations on a map.
You might be interested to know, or perhaps you already know, that your grandparents were what was known as Lung Doo people. In Imperial China, Xiangshan (Cantonese: Heungshan) County 香山縣 (later Zhongshan/Chungshan County) was divided into administrative areas known as 都 (du/doo). Lung Doo 隆都 consisted of the two towns from which your grandparents came. There are many Lung Doo people in Hawaii, where there is a Lung Doo Benevolent Society in Honolulu for people originating in this area. Lung Doo is especially known for its distinctive local dialect, which is more similar to the Chinese spoken in Fujian Province.
Greg
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Post by yuklien on Jul 7, 2020 18:47:25 GMT -5
To Doug and gckimm:
Thank you for all your help. With a lot of cut-and-paste, I think I found the general location of my grandparents' villages.
gckimm, your suggestion of contacting the Lung Doo Benevolent Society in Honolulu is appreciated. Although I live in Hawaii now, my grandparents settled in Oakland, then moved to San Francisco, so I never thought of contacting anyone here in Hawaii. I will certainly follow up on this one.
Thanks again.
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