Ng ping Yim

[guangdongblasian]

Hello.
I'm looking for help in finding information on my grandfather who was born in Canton 1.7.1890. He changed his name to Yim Lee when he came to American eventually because he didn't want to go back. But his name on his alien papers was written was " Ng Ping Yim". He also had a family in Canada before he made another one in the Virginia/north Carolina area. If you can help me; I'd greatly appreciate it !!!

[Henry]

Hi guangdongblasian,

You may want to check these records for additional information that provides the Chinese characters for the name, ancestral village, county, and province of origin.

NARA [https://www.archives.gov/san-francisco]: from my Dropbox - these are Excel files that can be searched electronically - with a match - first field is the Case file ID & the second filed is the bin location of storage, NARA can pull these records for you to review or make copies to send to you

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/z5h5864ggtrg4iahtwyai/San-Francisco-RecordsPart1.xls?rlkey=wnz7jplr7hkh4fn4b2hemye20&dl=0

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/cmunu24hfdyopm4seadip/San-Francisco-RecordsPart2.xls?rlkey=cpuq5fq6unlxwraj2teljgav6&dl=0

Your grandfather may have visited Canada or you can search these archives from the info gained from the NARA search

library-archives.canada.ca/eng/collection/research-help/genealogy-family-history/immigration/Pages/immigrants-from-china-1885-1949.aspx


The Chinese characters for the name of the ancestral village is important because - this is where you may still have village relatives & where there maybe a copy of the village genealogy book that contains the family genealogy lineage.

Henry