Chinese genealogy guides

• Chinese generation names (zibei) explained

  Many Chinese families name each generation with a shared character from a lineage poem (zibei). What generation names are, how they appear in given names, how to find your family's poem, and what to do if it is lost.

• How to trace your Chinese ancestry

  A step-by-step guide to tracing Chinese roots: record what you know, interview relatives, find genealogies and gravestones, use generation names and hall names to match lineages, and check local gazetteers and archives.

• How to make a Chinese family genealogy

  How to compile a Chinese family genealogy (jiapu / zupu): the steps, what a genealogy usually contains, privacy for living relatives, and building it online together with relatives.