Researching your Asian Roots for Chinese Americans

Authors

Sheau-yueh J. Chao, CUNY Bernard M. Baruch CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-2003

Abstract

This article was revised from the author's invited lecture presented at the American Librarians Association Annual Conference of the Reference and User Services (RUSA) Meeting in the Local History Section in San Francisco, June 2001. It includes an introduction to the history of Chinese surnames, types and functions of Chinese genealogical records, problems in Chinese genealogical research, and how to conduct a typical Chinese-American genealogical research with examples for further research.

Comments

This work was originally published in the Journal of East Asian Libraries.