15 December 2019

The Workshop Facilitator, Ir. Dr Philip Tan, intends to share his experiences of helping others to track their family record and to construct a family chart

Workshop 1: Searching your Ancestral Roots
15-Dec-2019,10 am-1 pm
– How one goes about tracing and connecting from one generation to another of one own ancestry.
– For those with missing generations, what to do with them?
– How to try finding the connection to earlier ancestors if the ancestral line that goes only up to progenitor of ancestral place
– For those who do not read nor write Chinese, how to go about understanding the zupu.
– How to read dates and time in zupu and convert them to Gregorian dates and vice-versa.

Workshop 2: Building your Family Chart
15-Dec-2019, 2 pm-4 pm
– How to digitize Chinese characters from on jiapu (家譜).
– How to get ancestries from zupu (族譜) into one big spreadsheet.
– How to put your family trees on a free website and get connected with others.

– Explore the use of geni.com and other application software

At the reception

Listening to the stories by Theresa, Jerome, Ronney and Dr Philip Tan

MC members with participants

Ng Yew Kang, the President introduced Genealogy Society Singapore (GSS)

Theresa Lim on how she reconnecting with  the past.

Jerome Teo on the challenges in finding his paternal roots

Searching the ancestral roots by Mr Ronney Tan

Genealogy search right up to Huangdi by Dr Philip Tan

Memento for Dr Philip Tan
Memento for Dr Philip Tan

Co-Partner of the event: Peranakan Association Singapore

The Workshop Facilitator, Dr Philip Tan, intends to share his experiences of helping others to track their family record and to construct their family lineage into family chart

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