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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…
Read MoreThe Chinese in Cuba
A Friends of Roots (FOR) cohort traveled to Cuba in March 2020 to explore the Chinese presence which dates back to the 1830s and 1840s. Cuba was occupied by the Spanish empire for some 400 years. By the 1830s some Chinese arrived in Cuba from the Philippines (another Spanish colony) by way of the Manila galleon…
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