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Zhang our ancestral line

Zhang our ancestral line

Raymond Tiu (View posts)
Posted: 7 Nov 2000 8:57AM GMT
Variantions in the western spellings are Cheung, Chang, Tchang, Tiu etc.:
Our ancestor has list down a pattern in our name (2nd character) to distinguish that we have the same ancestor. In fukien it is pronounce as (for the first generation) nai, kian, khe , kong , bing ... Any one who has this kind of pattern?

Re: Zhang our ancestral line

Frederick (View posts)
Posted: 9 Sep 2001 8:18PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Cheung
There are two Zhang (s) from fujian. Both of them are made up by two chinese character. The most popular one is made up by the character "bow" on the left and the character "grow" on the right. This Zhang mean expand or enlarge. The other Zhang or Cheung is made up by the character "stand" on top and "early" on the bottom. This Zhang means "essay" or "document".

Which Zhang is your family name?

I have 20 plus generation of information for the "Cheung" the "essay". If you have the last name mean "eassy" we can discuss it more.

Regards,


/yfc

Re: Zhang our ancestral line

Frederick Cheung (View posts)
Posted: 9 Sep 2001 8:22PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Zhang
There are two Zhang (s). One means "enlarge" the other means "essay" If you have the last name for "essay", I have 20 generations of information for the Zhang the "essay"

Regards,

/yfc

Re: Zhang our ancestral line

Posted: 24 Sep 2003 2:29AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 3 Jul 2004 3:19AM GMT
trying to start my family tree.the chinese name i am looking for is zhang bi bo (chang bic boh)his english name is thomas see thank you

Re: Zhang our ancestral line

Frederick (View posts)
Posted: 25 Sep 2003 3:27PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi,
As I mentioned with the Zhang Ancester board. There are two Zhang(s) in Chinese. My last name is Cheung or Zhang with the meaning of essay or document. Which Zhang is your last name? Can you read Chinese characters?

Frederick

Re: Zhang our ancestral line

Posted: 2 Aug 2009 6:16AM GMT
Classification: Query
Is that true back in history that Zhang and Lee family had a HUGE conflict? have u ever heard that?

Re: Zhang our ancestral line

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 1:49PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Tiu / zhang
Hi Frederick. I read your message and as you said, there are 2 zhang and they are not related according to some articles in the interned. How can I tell which line I belong. I don't write chinese characters but as far as I can remember, my grandfather wrote our surname similar to this one: 張. So, what do you think? I am a Filipino Chinese and it is hard to trace our ancestral line. thanks for the help.
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