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

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

Trae Nicholson shared her varied approaches to identifying “mystery people” in family photographs. After finding her father’s box of photographs that had been in storage for nearly 45 years, Trae spent 6 years identifying the 20 unknown people in the photographs.

Steve Kwok discussed family ancestral books (jiapu and zupu) including: how to find them; how to make sense of the content (even if you do not read Chinese); and how to fill in the last generations based on your family research and generational poem. Steve Kwok, former Chair of CFHGSC, is passionate about genealogy and…