Events - Chinese Family History Group

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Reconnecting and Building Community Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Community Potluck scheduled for December 7 is cancelled. We ...

We Built America

“We Built America,” an inspiring video short by Owen and Samuel Chin-Rust about how their great-great grandfather helped ...

Telling HerStory: Women of Chinatown

Join us for a conversation with Julia Flynn Siler, author of “The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought ...

HerStory: Shee’s 氏 Heirlooms

In our 2021 webinar, “Who Is Shee 氏?”, Zack Wilske and Marisa Louie Lee highlighted the less known ...

How To Display Your Family Tree

https://vimeo.com/980816455/f9b28f5d27?ts=0&share=copy Nearly all of us have made some progress on our family tree. After you’ve gotten a couple ...

The Journey To Publishing “Mott Street”: A Casual Conversation

To quote a wise and renowned Chinese American genealogist, Tony King, genealogy … “It’s about hearts, not charts.” ...

Researching Your Chinese American WW2 Ancestor: Managing Your Research and Leveraging Unique Resources

An estimated 18,000 - 20,000 Chinese Americans served during WW2, but researching their wartime and veteran stories presents ...

My Life In China

A Screening and Conversation with the Director 🎬 Immerse yourself in the remarkable tale of “My Life in ...

Veterans Oral History Project: Veteran Interviews

The Chinese Family History Group (CFHG) is proud to announce its collaboration with the Library of Congress to ...

Members Exclusive: A Visit to the Huntington

We started off our 2023 year with an unforgettable visit to The Huntington on April 08, 2023! Our ...

World War II Chinese American Unit-Researching Their Stateside Experience

Military researcher and social historian KB Barcomb will take you through the 14th Service Group, a Chinese American ...

Getting Started with webtrees

We hope you enjoyed Doug Joe’s very informative presentation on the webtrees tool on July 9th. (Login to ...

10th Anniversary Celebration

Celebrating Chinese Family History Group's 10th Anniversary Recordings Intro and Grand Tea Imports Grace Young Patrick Chew Birthday ...

Creating and Hosting a Family Tree Using webtrees ™

Have you been collecting the names of your ancestors and looking for a family tree program? Doug Joe ...

Reflections on National Genealogical Society’s Annual Convention

Several board members attended the National Genealogical Society’s National Convention in Sacramento in May 2022. The conference was ...

Preserving Your Past-Podcast

Do you have several boxes of old photos, slides, videos, and documents you inherited from your parents? How ...

Preserving Your Family Archive

Everyone has their own family archive. They can be as simple as the photos on your phone or ...

Are You Ready for the 1950 Census?

Have you found yourself or family members in the 1950 Census records? Join us on Friday, April 22, ...

Writing Your Family Story

A Writing Workshop with Cynthia Lim Three 90 minute workshops on “Telling Your Story” to help members document ...

Applying Evernote to Chinese Genealogy

Curious how Linda Yip uses Evernote to manage over 20,000 notes and 40,000 images? Are you wondering what ...

Organizing Chinese Genealogy with Linda Yip

Are you afraid to close your browser for fear of losing something important? Ever filed something away carefully ...

Oral Histories and Storytelling

Imagine if you could hear the voice of an ancestor who you have been researching. Interested in documenting ...

Welcoming the Year of the Tiger with Grace Young

Preserving Family Recipes and Chinatown Activism On October 23, 2021, Grace Young was named the recipient of the ...

Lina Lee Talks Jiapus

A jiapu is a family book which can be as simple as a handwritten document from your great ...

Ed Gor-Honoring Those Who Served, Member Exclusive Podcast

Over 22,000 Chinese Americans served in World War II, one out of five of the total population, during ...

Veterans History Project

The Veteran History Project is an archive of interviews, photographs, memoirs, illustrations, and other historic documents that gives ...

Member Event-Breaking Down the Tower of Babel

In this “Digging Deeper series” chat, Patrick will take some of his previous talk material from “Why Can’t ...

Family Ties 2.0 – A Virtual Workshop

In collaboration with the Chinese American Museum of Los Angeles, the Chinese Family History Group of Southern California ...

Y.C. Hong: Advocate for Chinese American Inclusion

Based on primary source materials from the Hong Family Papers at The Huntington, “Y.C. Hong: Advocate for Chinese ...

Member Event – Digging Deeper

Michael Ho began with a short segment especially designed for our donors and members about Chinese names. He ...

Member Event – Digging Deeper

Bo-Gay Salvador and Brian Yee shared their personal experiences in genealogy research in this session especially designed for ...

Researching the World of Chinese Documents

Many involved in Chinese genealogy research are familiar with the Chinese jiapu/zupu and perhaps local gazetteers. Tony King ...

Sweeping for Clues

Qīngmíng (also known as “Tomb-sweeping Day”) 2021 occurred on April 4th; it’s a “festival” when many ethnic Hàn ...

Family Ties – Adventures in Finding My Family Stories

In collaboration with Chinese American Museum Los Angeles, moderator Michael Ho interviewed panelists Marisa Louie Lee, Bo-Gay Tong ...

Who Is Shee?

Zachary Wilske discussed the history of US immigration laws and its impact on Chinese American women focusing on ...

Food and Tradition Stories

Two time James Beard Award winner and globally acclaimed Chef Martin Yan wove personal stories from his childhood ...

Crazy Rich Discoveries

Kevin Kwan shared intimate stories and photos about his family tree ranging back to the year 946. Born ...

We Are American Soldiers

Filmmakers Katie and Gregg Porter discussed their process of documenting "We Are American Soldiers." They shared their research ...

Researching Military History and Records

Filmmakers Katie and Gregg Porter share their journey in documenting Katie's maternal grandfather's life and military service in ...

Why Can’t I Understand Auntie?

Linguist Patrick Chew provided a basic introduction on Chinese dialects, focusing primarily on the Pearl River Delta of ...

The Chinese Name Game

Michael Ho gave an overview of Chinese naming conventions and practices that family history researchers may encounter in ...

How The Chinese Exclusion Act Impacted My Family

Patti Dung, Steve Kwok and Shirley Chu-Ng shared how the Chinese Exclusion Act impacted their family members. Login ...

Visiting Our Ancestral Villages

Kitty L. Lew shared her journey to three of her four ancestral villages in Taishan, Donguan and Zengcheng. ...

Identities Lost and Found

Trae Nicholson shared her varied approaches to identifying "mystery people" in family photographs. After finding her father’s box ...

Jiapus and Family Genealogical Books

Steve Kwok discussed family ancestral books (jiapu and zupu) including: how to find them; how to make sense ...

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