Chinese Surnames
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This site contain links to Chinese Surnames found in the Bai3[百 ] Jia[家 ] Xing4[姓 ] ( the Hundred Families Surnames).

There is also a list in alphabetical order, in whatever form the names were romanized. The surname pages will contain links and references to Genealogies, Family Name Associations, Generation Names, home pages, and other references to persons of that surname.

Also please contribute to my Chinese Surnames and Genealogy Queries and Responses Site.

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For the most frequently occurring Chinese surnames see Rick Harbaugh's Chinese Character Genealogy.

For a review of a book in English about Chinese surnames see In Search of your Asian Roots: Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames.

For a review of a book in English on researching Chinese genealogy see You Are Royalty, A Guide to Your Chinese Ancestor.

For other surnames links see the "Genealogy" Article: Introduction To Surnames on Suite 101.com.Suite 101
To search for other surnames links see the SEARCH YOUR SURNAME ON THE WEB center .

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This Site is part of the World Gen Web Project
For other Asian Genealogy Links see Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet

Technical Details

Note that characters in brackets [百 家 姓 ] are Chinese characters in Big5 format. If you have a Macintosh, Mac OS 8.5 or later supports reading Chinese fonts, but for inputting Chinese characters, or if you have a system earlier than OS 8.5, I suggest you install the Chinese Language Kit. If you are running Windows I suggest you install the Big5 Chinese fonts from the Microsoft website and a recent browser.

Look up Big5 characters using the Chinese Character Genealogy Search

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