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| For Chinese genealogies from the South Pacific see this articles: [[Samoa_Compiled_Genealogies#Oral Genealogies|Samoan]], [[Tonga_Compiled_Genealogies#Oral Genealogies|Tonga]], or other Polynesian oral genealogies. | | For Chinese genealogies from the South Pacific see this articles: [[Samoa_Compiled_Genealogies#Oral Genealogies|Samoan]], [[Tonga_Compiled_Genealogies#Oral Genealogies|Tonga]], or other Polynesian oral genealogies. |
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| == Histories of Chinese Surnames in Wikipedia ==
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| Wikipedia has a number of very useful articles about Chinese surnames, detailing their origins, histories, and distribution in present-day China and sometimes beyond. You can view this example to see what one of the articles may have in it.
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| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_(surname) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_(surname)]
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| Many other pages about Chinese surnames can be found on this category listing page on Wikipedia.
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| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Chinese-language_surnames http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Chinese-language_surnames]
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| 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.
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| 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, substituting the surname you wish to see if there is an article about it where you see Yuan in the URL 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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| == References == | | == References == |