CHSNE Genealogy Workshop
Join us for the first annual CHSNE Genealogy Workshop. Attendees will be given multipart video tutorials, worksheets, book discount, and exclusive access to a live Q&A session with three genealogists and our community guest speakers.
This event has been postponed, TBA.
See below for a listing of speakers and their bios. Other topics not shown include jiapu, visiting China, and struggling with language barriers. This workshop covers 4 courses, each with subchapters.
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The live Q and A event link will given to attendees, and is scheduled for October 16th at 2:00 PM. It will be recorded and posted on the membership site on October 18th.
Speakers
Linda Yip
Linda Yip is a genealogist, public speaker, storyteller, author, photographer, and entrepreneur. A 4th generation Canadian counting down from her great-grandparents on both sides, her family stretches across Canada and the United States, and beyond. She lives in Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
She got started in genealogy with her own Chinese ancestry, and is privileged to be on the Ancestry Advisory Board of Canadian Genealogists.
She’s a member of the Saskatchewan and British Columbia genealogy societies in Canada, the Seattle Genealogical Society in the USA, and the Chinese Canadian Historical Society. Linda is pursuing a designation with the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists.
Linda likes to stretch her creative skills in family history. Find her blogging at Past-Presence.com on all things genealogy. Her interests include Canadian archives and records, laws, immigration, WWI and WWII, and tech tools from Asana to Evernote.
TOPIC: “Getting Started in Chinese Genealogy”
Cindy Thomsan
Cindy Kim Thomson was born in Hawaii and is descended from Korean immigrants who arrived there in 1904. She has 15 years of genealogical experience and is an active member of the California Genealogical Society. Reflecting the roots of her multi-ethnic extended family, her research specialties include immigrant sugar plantation workers in Hawaii, East Asian immigrants to Hawaii and California, and Japanese-American World War II internment. She has a B.A. and M.A. from the University of California, San Diego, and is a retired Commerce Department economist.
Topic: “The Chinese in Hawaii: history and genealogical records”
Alice Kane
Native Bostonian Alice Kane, nee Yee, has had an avid interest in libraries and history since grade school. She worked over twenty years at the Boston Public Library where she discovered the fun of genealogy. Most recently, she managed library services for American Ancestors/New England Historic Genealogical Society and attended conference events on its behalf. Specializing in lineage research in New England and beyond, Alice joined CHSNE to share her genealogical expertise as well as enhance and expand her research skills in tracing families of Chinese descent. She continues to present lectures for beginning family historians in person and virtually, and is pursuing formal genealogical accreditation.
TOPIC: “Chinese Exclusion Act Case Files: A Primer” provides an overview of what can be found in such files, how to use them in your family history project, and how to find and get copies of them.
Nelson Mitrophan Chin – “GENI.com – Tracing your ancestry to the yellow emperor”
Stephanie Fan
Nancy Wong
