locating 林峰里 village in Kaiping/Hoiping

[brenzo]

Hi all,

I’m helping my partner (Indian-Chinese) find his ancestral (谭，Hom/Tam) village but I’m running into a bit of trouble and could use some help.

I currently have the name - (廣東開平)林峯里, Lum Fung Lay, Hoiping- and have located the village on villageDB here: (https://villagedb.friendsofroots.org/display.cgi/village/6051). However, I’m unable to find the exact location of the village and can only get the general location of where the heung (杜澄鄉) is so far.

As an aside, would I be able to find his clan zupu there or is it more likely that it’s kept elsewhere?

Many thanks in advance.

[brenzo]

found it, I just needed to exempt the 里 from my search query - baidu link: j.map.baidu.com/4f/c33i

Now it’s just a matter of finding out how to find the zupu

[Henry]

brenzo,

Many people have spent years trying to find a copy of their zupu - which is usually found in the ancestral village. If they survive the destruction by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution.

There are Tan/Tom genealogy booksets that are compilations of many village genealogy books. This zupu comes from the bookset of 3 volumes, the following link from my Dropbox:

Tam Genealogy -1

is for the Volume 1 that contains the lineages mostly from Kaiping / Hoiping. Traditioanl Chinese zupus list only male names i.e., their marriage names. This 1960s zupu is special because it provides a reference to the next page, not necessarily in numerical sequence. Typically people have to thumb through many pages to see where the "next" page is.

Henry

[brenzo]

thanks so much Henry! I can’t read this very well but I’ll be forwarding the file over to one of his interested relatives in Hong Kong who should be able to read it - I’ve also managed to find a digitized zupu on mychinaroots as well as a physical one in the Guangzhou Library, so I’ll also see if these bear fruit as well.