Chinese Genealogy Resources

My husband’s grandmother Fok Yut Negan. The photo was likely taken in 1907 or 1908. Her blouse is still owned by a member of the family. Source: Don Family

Ancestry Team. “Chinese Names: Generational Names, First Names, and Their Meanings,” Ancestry Blog,  27 July 2023, viewed on 8/21/2023 https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/chinese-names-generational-names-first-names-and-their-meanings/

Ancestry Team. “Exploring Chinese Ancestors: Unraveling the Legacy of the Chinese Exclusion Act,” Ancestry Blog, 30 July 2023, viewed on 8/21/2023 https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/exploring-chinese-ancestors-unraveling-the-legacy-of-the-chinese-exclusion-act/

“California, San Francisco, Chinese Passenger Lists,” FamilySearch, viewed on 9/4/2022 https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/3477655 NARA Series M1414 and M1476, Record Group 85.

“ChinaGenWeb: Landing Page,” The WorldGenWeb, viewed on 9/4/2022 https://www.worldgenweb.net/china/

Chinese Family History Group of Southern California, viewed on 9/4/2022 https://www.chinesefamilyhistory.org/

“China Genealogy,” FamilySearch: Research Wiki, August 31, 2022, viewed on 9/4/2022 https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/China_Genealogy

Chinese Genealogy: How to Find Your Ancestral Village, March 5, 2010, viewed on 9/4/2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_N3NgQ525c

“Chinese Immigration Records Held at the Regional National Archives,” FamilySearch Research Wiki: A Genealogy Research Guide, date unknown, viewed on 9/4/2022 https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/img_auth.php/e/e5/King%2C_CHINESE_IMMIGRATION_RECORDS.pdf

Chao, Eveline. “The Caribbean-Americans Searching for Their Chinese Roots,” Atlas Obscura, 5/22/2018, viewed on 1/26/2023 https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chinese-caribbean-american-hakka-conference

Fibberblister/Sandbox. “How to Conduct Chinese Genealogy Research Using FamilySearch,” FamilySearch Research Wiki: A Genealogy Research Guide, last edited 1 July 2022, viewed on 9/4/2022 https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/User:Flibberblister/Sandbox

“Finding Family Records,” Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, viewed on 9/4/20221 https://www.aiisf.org/research

Glazer, Fern. “Researching an Angel Island Ancestor,” familytree, n.d., viewed on 9/4/2022 https://www.familytreemagazine.com/records/immigration/researching-angel-island-ancestor/

“Helps for Reading Chinese Genealogies,” FamilySearch Research Wiki: A Genealogy Research Guide, date unknown, viewed on 9/4/2022 https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/img_auth.php/1/1c/Chinese_Helps_for_Jiapu.pdf

“Hong Kong, China & Taiwan,” Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet, viewed on 9/4/2022 https://www.cyndislist.com/china/

“How to Find My Chinese Ancestors,” FamilySearch Blog, March 29, 2019, viewed on 9/4/2022 https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/chinese-family-tree-jiapu/

Loh-Hagan, Virginia, et al. “Excluded From History: The Page Act of 1875,” Social Education March/April 2022, viewed on 9/4/2022 https://www.socialstudies.org/social-education/86/2/excluded-history-page-act-1875

Louie, Emma Woo. Chinese American Names: Tradition and Transition, McFarland & Company, 1998.

Madison, Paula Williams. Finding Samuel Lowe: From Harlem to China, YouTube, October 17, 2020, viewed 9/4/2022 https://youtu.be/-_-OWolnD8I “Spanning four generations and moving between New York, Jamaica, and China, Finding Samuel Lowe is a powerful memoir that is a universal story of one woman’s search for her maternal grandfather and the key to her self-identity.”

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

Reft, Ryan. “Paper Sons in the Era of Immigration Restriction: Chinese Immigration and the Immigration Act of 1924,” Library of Congress Blogs: UNFOLDING HISTORY Manuscripts at the Library of Congress, May 23, 2024, viewed on 7/8/2024 https://blogs.loc.gov/manuscripts/2024/05/paper-sons-in-the-era-of-immigration-restriction-chinese-immigration-and-the-immigration-act-of-1924/?loclr=eamss

Roots Village DB, last modified July 28,2020, viewed on 9/4/2022 http://villagedb.friendsofroots.org/about.html

Rose, Danielle. “Rediscovering my Chinese Roots,” Vita Brevis, 1/24/2023, viewed on 1/26/2023 https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2023/01/rediscovering-my-chinese-roots/

Tom, Henry. Chinese Genealogy Research w/o Having to Know Chinese, Chinese Genealogy Conference, June 8, 2019, viewed on 9/4/2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tjBBula_YY

Tom, Henry. “The Village Database: A Resource for Chinese American Genealogy Research,” Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 122, no. 4, Winter 2021. 

Yip, Linda. “Four Tips to Explore the Free Chinese Exclusion Era Collections on Ancestry®,” Ancestry Blog, June 29, 2023, viewed on 8/21/2023 https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/four-tips-to-explore-the-free-chinese-exclusion-era-collections- Free collections are linked to in the beginning of the article, here is the direct link: https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/chineseexclusionera/

Yip, Linda. Past Presence: A Site for Genealogists and Family Historians, viewed on 9/4/2022 https://past-presence.com/  

Yip, Linda. “RLP 138: Chinese Research with Linda Yip,” Research Like a Pro Genealogy Podcast, viewed on 9/4/2022 https://familylocket.com/the-research-like-a-pro-genealogy-podcast/

Wang, Hangsi Lo. “Chinese American Descendants Uncover Forged Family Histories,” NPR, December 17, 2013, viewed on 9/4/2022 https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/12/17/251833652/chinese-american-descendants-uncover-forged-family-history

Yu, Wufei. “How a California Archive Reconnected a New Mexico Family with its Chinese Roots,” High Country News, April 1, 2022, viewed on 9/4/2022 https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.4/history-how-a-california-archive-reconnected-a-new-mexico-family-with-it-chinese-roots

Zhang, Laney. “How Degrees of Kinship Are Calculated Under Chinese Law,” Library of Congress Blogs | Custodia Legis, August 21, 2017, viewed on 10/23/2024 https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2017/08/how-degrees-of-kinship-are-calculated-under-chinese-law/