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Members Writing Family Stories

Prompt: Write about the person that raised you. Write about the things he/she did that annoyed you or things that you are grateful for. Write about the things you realized as an adult but didn’t understand as a child. Growing Up With Paupau By Vicky Lowe Hall Shee was born on March 18, 1896 to…

My Father Was My Gateway To American Life. Then I Found Out He Lied To Get Into This Country.

Published by The Huffington Post, May 28, 2022 “Reading their files made me uneasy. Their claim to citizenship was based on a lie. Were they ‘illegal immigrants’? Did that mean I wasn’t a true American?” By Cynthia Lim The one thing I thought I knew for certain was that my Chinese father, Mow Lim, was allowed…

Don’t Trust Everything You Read: the Importance of Verifying Source Material

Michael Ho President of Chinese Family History Group 2018-2020 I have been researching my family history for over thirty years. This is absolutely true, but it does raise an interesting question: Aren’t you done yet? Let’s flashback to when I got started. I was interested in hearing family stories at an early age, and I…

Linking Family Stories to National and Global Historical Trends

As a Professor of History at California State University Fullerton (CSUF), I have benefited tremendously from attending the meetings of the Chinese Family History Group of Southern California. In fact, meeting the members online and hearing the various speakers has been one of the highlights of this past year for me. While my training is…