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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_(surname)
-To find another article about a different surname, do the following:  Type the URL above, but substitute the surname that you are searching for information about where Yuan is above.  Do not remove _(surname) from the article title part of the URL.  The article about the desired surname will show if it exists.  If none exists you will see some other possible hits, but some of those may not contain the desired information about the surname.  There will be no specific genealogical data in those articles.
+Many other pages about Chinese surnames can be found on this category listing page on Wikipedia.
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Chinese-language_surnames
+Not all the pages have (surname) after them, since it is more obvious that the article is about a surname.  There will be no specific genealogical data in these articles, only details of how the surname developed, and other historical matters.
+To find a page for a surname that for some reason is not listed there, type the URL shown for the Yuan surname as shown above.  If that does not turn up any results that look right, take off the _(surname) part of the URL, and it is possible that it might be found that way.  However, it is possible that articles about some surnames are not on Wikipedia yet.
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