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Useful Web Sites:
- Helps for Reading Chinese Genealogies (in English)
- 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. Surname index operated by Ancestry, largely in Chinese.
- Jewish Communities of China
- BYU Research Guide for East Asian Researchers
Useful websites for overseas Chinese whose ancestors emigrated from the SiYi (SeiYap) 四邑 "Four counties" area of the Pearl River Delta 珠江三角洲 of Guangdong province 廣東省:
- Siyi wikipedia
- zh-yue Siyi 四邑
- zh ancestory 四邑民系
- Baike Baidu Siyi 四邑
- Him Mark Lai Digital Archive
- Siyi Genealogy Forum
- Name list of Chinese buried in the Los Angeles cemetery
- Bancroft Library, Chinese in California 1850-1925
- Online Archive of California, Guide to the Chinese in California Virtual Collection
- Overseas Chinese Affairs of Guangdong
Of the SiYi (SeiYap) 四邑 "Four counties" area above, those emigrating from Taishan (Toisan) 台山 were most prevalent. Here are some additional links for Taishan.
- wikipedia zh Taishan 台山市
- Baike Baidu 台山_百度百科
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan
- Toisan (Taishan) Village Database
- Ancestral Village Research , Chinese Family History Group of California
- Taishan villages – Guangdong
- Taishan Area Map
Other useful links to Chinese ancestral research