China Genealogy

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Getting started with China research
Welcome to the China portal page. Here you will find links to useful articles and websites that will help you with your research! To learn how to begin doing Chinese research, click here. For information on more specific locations, click on one of the links below:


 * Hong Kong
 * Macau
 * Mainland China

Jurisdictions
China has 23 provinces (sheng, singular and plural), 5 autonomous regions (zizhiqu, singular and plural), and 4 municipalities (shi, singular and plural)

Research Tools
Having trouble converting to or from Chinese dates?

Useful Web Sites:


 * Chinese Genealogy - Trace Your Family Tree in China - about.com
 * Miscellaneous China and Chinese Web Sites:Chinese Genealogical Resources
 * Open Directory - Regional: Asia: China: Society and Culture: Genealogy
 * Free China Genealogy Search Engines at Ancestor Search
 * Jiapu.cn, operated by Ancestry, largely in Chinese.
 * Jewish Communities of China
 * BYU Research Guide for East Asian Researchers


 * (helpful tools and resources, gazetteers)
 * (language dictionary, handwriting guide or tutorial, etc.)
 * China, Feng Ping Shan Library Chinese Genealogies (FamilySearch Historical Collections)

Help Wanted
In order to make this wiki a better research tool, we need your help! Many tasks need to be done. You can help by:

Featured Content

 * Browse: Pages for China
 * Library: The Shanghai Library expects to complete the world's largest genealogical database, containing about 50,000 Chinese family trees, by the end of 2007. Read more...

Did you know?
China is probably the oldest surviving nation on earth. Its history and culture easily goes back over 2,000 years and some family histories have been found that go back to nearly 500 BC if not further.

Today it is one of the two most populated nations on earth.

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