Join us for a conversation with Cheuk Kwan, director and producer of the 15 part documentary series, “Chinese Restaurants” on YouTube and author of “Have You Eaten Yet?” a book inspired by his series. Before Anthony Bourdain’s “A Cook’s Tour”, there was Cheuk Kwan’s, “Chinese Restaurants.” He traveled for 4 years to unexpected places in…

A Watch Party with Cheuk Kwan On March 1, we will have a watch party for one of the episodes of “Chinese Restaurants” at the Chinatown Library in Los Angeles where Cheuk will join online for a Q & A session. The meeting event will be recorded for those who cannot physically attend and will…

It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Kitty L. Lew, member of the Chinese Family History Group’s Board of Directors.  Kitty served as Corporate Secretary and Vice-President and was an integral part of CFHG. She contributed countless hours on the administration of the organization and shared her extensive genealogical…

In honor of Veteran’s Day, we are pleased to present an encore viewing of Katie and Gregg Porter’s, The Making of “We Are American Soldiers,”  a short documentary film capturing the stories of Chinese Americans who served this country during World War II, only to return home to face discrimination. We Are American Soldiers tells one man’s story of…

“We Built America,” an inspiring video short by Owen and Samuel Chin-Rust about how their great-great grandfather helped shape American history, is now available on our web page.  Owen and Samuel write, “When we learned that the original photo marking the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Point left out the Chinese workers, who…

Join us for a conversation with Julia Flynn Siler, author of “The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown”. The book is a revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first century of Chinese immigration (1848-1943) and the “safe house” on the…

Nearly all of us have made some progress on our family tree.  After you’ve gotten a couple of generations worth of names, a natural question would be “What am I going to do with this?”  You could keep it all in folders or boxes, or stick your tree and documents into a notebook, but that’s…

In our 2021 webinar, “Who Is Shee 氏?”, Zack Wilske and Marisa Louie Lee highlighted the less known experiences of women in immigration. These unknown, often nameless, women were left behind in China to shoulder family caregiving responsibilities, while their men/husbands worked overseas. This inspired our Chinese Family History member, Kitty Lew, to discover her…

Ever wonder what to do with all the research you have gathered on your family history? How do you begin to document your ancestor’s stories? Join us for this workshop of three 90 minute sessions via Zoom to start writing. The sessions will have short, five-minute prompts to get participants writing, which will help writers…