14 December 2019
The talk on Chinese Genealogy discusses the unique Chinese tradition of recording the family lineage, history, migration, etc in family records known as jiapu (家譜) and zupu (族譜). The speaker, Ir. Dr Philip Tan, intends to share his experiences of helping others to track their family record and to construct their family pedigree lineage into scrolls in a form easy for understanding by family members.
Dr Tan’s first got involved in Chinese family ancestry while helping his children in their school project to construct their family tree. In spite of his inability to read and write in Chinese, he succeeded in tracing and constructing back his family tree chart and his pedigree lineage all the way back to Huang Di (黃帝) in 2,697 BC.
Since then he has been researching other family lineages for other surnames e.g. Li (李), Wang (王), Zhang (張), Chen (陳), Huang (黄), Lin (林), Yu (余),
Reception manned by Dr Yeo Gee Kin, Ms Ruth Chen and Mr Yeo Seng Kong
Mr Ng Yew Kang, President of GSS introducing the Society
Dr Philip Tan sharing his search of the ancestral roots and with many invaluable pointers
Emcee for the Talk, Mr Ronney Tan Koon Siang
Mr Ng Yew Kang presenting memento to Dr Philip Tan
