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Researching, preserving and interpreting genealogies and historical sources through textual analysis, pedigree studies and comparison of documentary evidence.

2026年11月10日
Paifang gateway of the Hakka ancestral home at Shibi, Ninghua, Fujian

One Letter Home, One Clan Ledger: The 2026 Migration Memories Journey Sets Out from Sanming

On 29 October 2026 the five-day Migration Memories ancestral-home journey opened in Sanming, Fujian. Clan and youth delegates from both sides of the strait traced their roots through archives, donating family letters, old photographs and genealogies, and tested a digital root-seeking platform for archival and surname-origin searches.
2026年11月4日
泉州南安蔡氏古民居红砖古厝院落

A Thread of Kinship Across a Thousand Miles: How Quanzhou Helps Overseas Chinese Find Their Way Home

From Indonesian Chinese Dai Hongju fulfilling his family's three-generation dream of returning home, to Malaysian Chinese Lin Kaiwen tracing his ancestral village in four days, Quanzhou's 'Qiao'ai Lianxin' volunteer network and its Nanyang root-seeking platform have helped more than a hundred overseas kin find their family roots in five years.
2026年10月27日
客家祠堂门楼与牌匾(真实照片)

Nostalgia Written in Hall Names: Junwang, Tanghao and the Root-Tracing Code of East Asian Surname Culture

From the “Longxi Hall,” “Jiangxia Hall” and “Xingyang Hall” plaques on ancestral shrines to the surname order in the Hundred Family Surnames, junwang and tanghao form the “geographic coordinates” of Chinese identity. In 2026, a renewed wave of surname culture has brought the migration histories and genealogy traditions behind hall names back into public view.
2026年9月29日
湖北第十七届晒谱活动开幕式现场

“Roots of Jingchu, Family Records for a Thousand Years”: Hubei’s 17th Genealogy Display Opens with Digitization and AI Root-Seeking

On 28 September 2026, Hubei's 17th genealogy display (shaipu) opened at the Hubei Provincial Library under the theme “Family Records for a Thousand Years, Roots of Jingchu,” featuring rare collections, an AI genealogy application and interactive root-seeking installations. The library now holds 3,223 genealogies in 33,463 volumes, with 2,976 digitized, forming a dual-track preservation system of print and digital.
2026年9月17日
《孙氏世乘》书页(1755年编修,宁波家谱数据库)

Ningbo Genealogy Database Goes Live: A Digital Gateway to 325 Genealogies and 102 Surnames

Launched in mid-September 2026 by the Ningbo Library together with ten district and county libraries, the Ningbo Genealogy Database debuts with 325 genealogies from Ningbo and its vicinity covering 102 surnames, offering full-text search, pedigree-tree lookup and multi-dimensional filtering — a digital gateway for people of Ningbo origin to trace their roots.
2026年8月20日
竖排族谱与现代数字工具融合概念图(AI生成)

OpenZupu: An Open-Source Genealogy Platform That Brings Vertical Chinese Clan Books Back to Life

OpenZupu (Kaiyuan Zupu), an OpenAI Build Week 2026 project, is an open-source collaborative digital genealogy platform supporting Su-style vertical lineage charts and Ou-style registry text, geospatial migration timelines, Y-DNA/mtDNA haplogroup mapping and MRCA calculation — with plans for AI photo-to-tree extraction and Classical Chinese translation — aimed at clan councils, local archives and historical researchers.
OpenZupu: An Open-Source Genealogy Platform That Brings Vertical Chinese Clan Books Back to Life
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