Sunday, May 19, 2013

Finding Your Ancestral Village in Guandong

If you are from Guangdong Province, you are in luck.  

If you are a descendant from one of these counties, the Village Database can now be utilized to find your ancestral village. To find your ancestral village you need the Chinese characters for your surname, the name of the village and the county. Let us take for example your surname is Chan (陳) and you are looking for your village called:
Shek Tau Village (石頭村) in Sun Wui (新會) County
Here are the steps needed to find this village:

Chinese Genealogy - Finding Your Ancestral Village in China

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