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Useful Websites:

• Helps for Reading Chinese Genealogies (in English)
• Chinese Genealogy - Trace Your Family Tree in China - about.com
• Miscellaneous China and Chinese Websites:Chinese Genealogical Resources
• Open Directory - Regional: Asia: China: Society and Culture: Genealogy
• Free China Genealogy Search Engines at Ancestor Search
• Jiapu. Surname index operated by Ancestry, largely in Chinese.  
• Jewish Communities of China
• BYU Research Guide for East Asian Researchers 

Useful websites for overseas Chinese whose ancestors emigrated from the SiYi (SeiYap) 四邑 "Four counties" area of the Pearl River Delta 珠江三角洲 of Guangdong province 廣東省:

• Siyi wikipedia
• zh-yue Siyi 四邑
• zh ancestory 四邑民系
• Baike Baidu Siyi 四邑
• Him Mark Lai Digital Archive
• Siyi Genealogy Forum
• Name list of Chinese buried in the Los Angeles cemetery
• Bancroft Library, Chinese in California 1850-1925
• Online Archive of California, Guide to the Chinese in California Virtual Collection
• Overseas Chinese Affairs of Guangdong

Of the SiYi (SeiYap) 四邑 "Four counties" area above, those emigrating from Taishan (Toisan) 台山 were most prevalent. Here are some additional links for Taishan.

• wikipedia zh Taishan 台山市
• Baike Baidu 台山_百度百科
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan
• Toisan (Taishan) Village Database
• Ancestral Village  Research , Chinese Family History Group of California
• Taishan villages – Guangdong
• Taishan Area Map

Other useful links to Chinese ancestral research

• House of Chinn

• 中国家谱网  China Jiapu in Chinese
• Family Tree Relationships (video)

• Chinese Family History Group of Southern California
• U.S National Archives, Archives Library Information Center (ALIC)

• Chinese-Americans, U.S National Archives
• 中华寻根网  National Library of China "International Chinese Genealogy Online"
• Information about China's Tangs 堂号 in Chinese
• A list of China’s Tangs (堂号) in Chinese.
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Edward Bing Kan: The First Chinese-American Naturalized after Repeal of Chinese Exclusion