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Chinese Surname Research
Chinese Surname Index for Jiapu Collection, Ancestry.com
http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1546
Search results will give details about the publication and the specific record will provide a catalog number in the Shanghai Library collections.
Note: Your computer must have East Asian fonts installed to see the Chinese characters displayed in the search results.
Chinese Kinship Titles By William Kiejan Tong
http://www.oakton.edu/user/~billtong/chinaclass/chinesekin.htm#chart
This site features Chinese kinship title system, pronunciation guide in three dialects (Mandarin, Standard Cantonese, Toisan (Taishan) Cantonese dialect). No Chinese characters.
One Hundred Surnames. http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chinesesurname/hundred.html
This site focuses on the 100 most common surnames in China.
Rootsweb Chinese Surnames
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chinesesurname/
Wikipedia Chinese Surnames https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_surname
Includes origin and distributions of Han surnames. Also, look up individual surnames.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_Chinese_surnames
Common Chinese surnames in China, U.S., Taiwan, Malaysia and Canada are listed.
See also Chinese Clan & Family Histories
http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1546
Search results will give details about the publication and the specific record will provide a catalog number in the Shanghai Library collections.
Note: Your computer must have East Asian fonts installed to see the Chinese characters displayed in the search results.
Chinese Kinship Titles By William Kiejan Tong
http://www.oakton.edu/user/~billtong/chinaclass/chinesekin.htm#chart
This site features Chinese kinship title system, pronunciation guide in three dialects (Mandarin, Standard Cantonese, Toisan (Taishan) Cantonese dialect). No Chinese characters.
One Hundred Surnames. http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chinesesurname/hundred.html
This site focuses on the 100 most common surnames in China.
Rootsweb Chinese Surnames
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chinesesurname/
Wikipedia Chinese Surnames https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_surname
Includes origin and distributions of Han surnames. Also, look up individual surnames.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_Chinese_surnames
Common Chinese surnames in China, U.S., Taiwan, Malaysia and Canada are listed.
See also Chinese Clan & Family Histories
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