Previous Events
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 ...
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We hope you enjoyed Doug Joe’s very informative presentation on the webtrees tool on July 9th. (Login to ...
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Celebrating Chinese Family History Group's 10th Anniversary Recordings Intro and Grand Tea Imports Grace Young Patrick Chew Birthday ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Do you have several boxes of old photos, slides, videos, and documents you inherited from your parents? How ...
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Preserving Your Family Archive
Everyone has their own family archive. They can be as simple as the photos on your phone or ...
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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, ...
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A Writing Workshop with Cynthia Lim Three 90 minute workshops on “Telling Your Story” to help members document ...
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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 ...
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Organizing Chinese Genealogy with Linda Yip
Are you afraid to close your browser for fear of losing something important? Ever filed something away carefully ...
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Oral Histories and Storytelling
Imagine if you could hear the voice of an ancestor who you have been researching. Interested in documenting ...
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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 ...
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A jiapu is a family book which can be as simple as a handwritten document from your great ...
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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 ...
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The Veteran History Project is an archive of interviews, photographs, memoirs, illustrations, and other historic documents that gives ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Michael Ho began with a short segment especially designed for our donors and members about Chinese names. He ...
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Bo-Gay Salvador and Brian Yee shared their personal experiences in genealogy research in this session especially designed for ...
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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 ...
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Qīngmíng (also known as “Tomb-sweeping Day”) 2021 occurred on April 4th; it’s a “festival” when many ethnic Hàn ...
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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 ...
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Zachary Wilske discussed the history of US immigration laws and its impact on Chinese American women focusing on ...
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Two time James Beard Award winner and globally acclaimed Chef Martin Yan wove personal stories from his childhood ...
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Kevin Kwan shared intimate stories and photos about his family tree ranging back to the year 946. Born ...
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Filmmakers Katie and Gregg Porter discussed their process of documenting "We Are American Soldiers." They shared their research ...
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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 ...
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Why Can’t I Understand Auntie?
Linguist Patrick Chew provided a basic introduction on Chinese dialects, focusing primarily on the Pearl River Delta of ...
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Michael Ho gave an overview of Chinese naming conventions and practices that family history researchers may encounter in ...
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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 ...
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Visiting Our Ancestral Villages
Kitty L. Lew shared her journey to three of her four ancestral villages in Taishan, Donguan and Zengcheng. ...
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Trae Nicholson shared her varied approaches to identifying "mystery people" in family photographs. After finding her father’s box ...
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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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