Publications
There are several books on Chinese genealogy available to assist family historians search for their roots.
For more information please click here.
Translation Services
Translation and interpretation of Chinese genealogy records into English is available for those who wish to build their family’s pedigree charts.
This service is available at US$49.97 per hour or 3 hours at US$125.97.
For those who wish to avail themselves of this service please contact me by email (twoupman@yahoo.com) outlining your requirements together with jpg images for assessment. Recommendations will then be made and a price quoted together with a description of the scope of work to be covered. Normally the outcome would be a pedigree chart with the names of the ancestors found in the supplied documents.
Village Database
If your ancestor originated from the old Siyi (四邑) region of Xinhui (新會), Taishan (台山), Kaiping (開平) or Zhongshan (中山) this database may be of help.
To help find the name of your ancestral village all you have to do is enter your surname (it would be helpful if you also know the Chinese characters) and the database will display a list of village names in transliterated Cantonese plus Chinese characters.
The website is: http://www.c-c-c.org/villagedb/search.cgi
For a description on "How to find your Ancestral Village with the Village Database" , click here
To view the video on how to use this database, click the Play button
For a description on "How to locate your Ancestral Village with Google Maps", click here
Chinese Genealogy Forums
At the present time there are only two forums dealing with Chinese genealogy where participants try to help each other with queries. These are:
http://www.ziplink.net/~rey/ch/queries/
http://siyigenealogy.proboards28.com/
