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Coloured Colonials Genealogy: trace your Asian ancestors in Australia

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21.01.2022 Tip #1 for Chinese Family History Research: Try and locate the Chinese Characters of your Ancestor’s name. This will be the most definitive detail in your sea...rch for your ancestors. Chinese names are generally made of three characters. The first is the family or clan name, the second is a generational name which is shared with siblings and cousins and the third is a given name. The order of these can get mixed up in English language records. You need your ancestor’s full Chinese name in characters in order to do any Chinese language research on your ancestor.

17.01.2022 Tip #3 for Chinese Family History Research: Repeat your searches Sometimes you think you have come to the end of the line and there’s nowhere else to go when yo...u are researching your Chinese ancestors. So what’s next? Go back to the beginning. Check your sources for clues you may have missed earlier. Go sideways - explore clues from siblings, marriage witnesses - anything you haven’t looked at before. Go back and repeat your searches. Sometimes new information becomes indexed at places like PROV so a new search may yield new clues. For one CAFHOV member, a new search at PROV brought up a previously undiscovered record (bill of sale) which yielded a signature in Chinese characters!

11.01.2022 Tip #2 for Chinese Family History Research: BDM Searches... When researching births, deaths and marriages, remember to try alternative spellings and use wildcar...ds. Be creative and don't discount records simply because the spelling is unexpected - if many details fit, the record could be worth a look. For example, one CAFHOV member found the surname Mang Yee recorded on their daughter's birth record as Mongyel. Make sure you make use of the extended search criteria on the Victorian Births, Deaths and Marriages website which can be really helpful when the spelling of names is so variable. Here, you can search for your ancestor using the option of adding their parent(s) or spouse. This is an extremely useful feature! And when searching for marriages, don’t assume your ancestor’s marriages happened before they had children! https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/indexsearch.doj

05.01.2022 Wong and Huang look different. But did you know they're actually the same last name?

01.01.2022 Tip #4 for Chinese Family History Research Understanding how Chinese Language functions When you are researching your Chinese ancestors you don't need to know h...ow to read Chinese, however you do need to understand about how Chinese languages functions: - Chinese has two written forms: traditional (or complex, still used in HK, Taiwan, SE Asia, older generations in Australia) and simplified (post 1950s, official written language of mainland China). - There are many dialects across China, so written characters will sound different depending on the dialect they are spoken in. - Chinese languages are tonal and so can't be written in roman letters unless you use a romanisation system that provides a way to indicate tones. There is no set romanisation system for Cantonese. - If you are researching pre-1950s Chinese arrivals to Australia then you are dealing with traditional characters and Cantonese or one of the many Cantonese dialects.