NoSpamlchow... Thank you for your recent information to me on the Lew and Louie surnames. Would you know of anything on the surname UNG? Thank you T NoSpamlchow wrote: > To all mailing list members: > > I am the president of the Chou Clansmen Association of America. The Chou > Clansmen Association is a social, fraternal, and cultural Chinese surname > organization for people with the Chou (Chou, Chow, Zhou) surname. We are > located in Hawaii and we have a homepage presence at > http://www.idis.com/ChouOnline . Our clan society, one of many in Hawaii, > has a small membership of just under 12 members and we belong to the > greater Chou (Chow) surname group out of mainland China, called the Chin > Ying Tong Association, which boast a membership running into many > millions. > > We maintain a small genealogy library of about 60 Chinese family surnames > (written in Chinese) going back to the time of Huang Di, China's first > Emperor. In most cases, our records are updated to about the 19th > century just before mainland China's Cultural Revolution, when Chinese > genealogy books were destroyed. > > For public goodwill, we do genealogy work for Chinese people at no charge. > We try to connect people with their families and roots. While we can not > guarantee anything and sometimes a genealogy search takes time, we persist > because helping people (Chinese and non-Chinese) is what we are all about. > > My organization does not have a professional genealogist, so it takes us > longer to research and find materials. I try to help people wanting > Chinese genealogy connected to Hawaii. I work free of charge or on a > cost basis as long distance calls to Maui, Kauai, or the Big Island in the > State of Hawaii are not free. > > I am writing this letter to the group for following reasons: (1) As a > reminder as to who we are and what I do in a way of helping people find > their family genealogy, (2) to let people know, who have previously > contacted me, that I may not have been able to write to them, because > their correspondence was somehow inadvertently lost, (3) to let people > know that we have located the descendants of Goo Tong. > > Sometimes, the best way to find Chinese genealogy is to band together in a > group and mutually help others. It is my personal feeling that life is a > two way street. Sometimes, we need help and we are lucky to find other > people who give freely of their time to help us find our roots. Time is > money and some people spend their time, without thought of a financial > return just to help others. Many people are reluctant to go out of their > way, because it takes too much time and effort with too little result. I, > therefore, suggest that if there is anyone in this group from Hawaii, > where I am located, please get in touch with me. Sometimes, by > volunteering one's time to help other people find genealogy, you may > stumble across your own. Please give me a call at (808) 538-1855. > > With respect to Chinese genealogy, especially with regard to Chinese > genealogy out of or connected to Hawaii and with regard to Imperial > Chinese genealogy (Chou clan*, Chun clan, and Aisin Gioro clan), I am one > of the best in the world. > > FOUND: Goo descendants in Hawaii - FAMILY REUNION! > Someone posted a posting in this genealogy list looking for a specific Goo > family, I do not remember who posted that notice and some of my > correspondence was inadvertently destroyed. I followed up on that > posting a number of months ago, by making phone calls on Oahu (the main > island in the State of Hawaii) and the outer islands and recently got a > call from family members that they were going to have a family reunion on > August 18, 2000. So, if the person who posted the posting about finding > family and descendants of Goo Tong could privately e-mail me, I have some > information to pass on to you. > > Other people who sent me e-mails earlier, please be patient as sometimes > contacting and searching for people takes time. If you want to drop me a > brief note, I would welcome that, because some of our correspondence has > been lost. > > - - - - - > *Notation Chou clan genealogy encompasses some of the following surnames: > > Chinese family surnames - those who are descendants of China's ancient > Chou Dynasty (1122 BC to 256 BC) - Chow (Chou, Zhou), Lum (Lin), Chang > (Cheng), Goo (Ku), Wu (Wo, Woo), Ing (Ng), Ching (Cheng), Ho, Chiang, > Mau (Mao), Choy (Tsai), Sun, Yap (Yip, Ye, Yeh), Wong (Wang), Lai, Kee > (Ke), Kwock (Kwok, Kok, Kuo, Guo, Kop), Lau (Liu), Loui (Lui), Dang > (Teng, Tang, Deng, Dung), Siu (Hsiu, Hsiao) and Young (Yang, Yong). > Also, included: Chock (Cheuk, Cho) and Tom (Tan, Tam). >