Taishan Genealogy

A Sze Yup County in Guangdong Province China

17 June 2009

Overview

Taishan County or, more correctly these days, Taishan City (台山 Pinyin: Táishān) is located 140 kilometres west of Hong Kong and 100 kilometres south-west of Guangzhou. In Cantonese, it is known as Toishan, and occasionally as Toisan or Toisaan. It lies along the coastline of Guangdong Province in the southwest corner of the Pearl River Delta, and has an area of 3,286 km2 with a population of about 1 million. It is the homeland of some 1.3 million expatriate Chinese in over eighty countries.

Taishan County in China

Taishan was founded as Xinning District (新寧縣), and was variously known as Sunning, Sinning, Hsinning or Hsînnîng.

Research Guides

Administration
Books, Articles and Other Secondary Sources
Family History Centres
Government Records
Maps
Peoples and Clans

Education

Chinese American Contributions to the Educational Development of Toisan 1910-1940
Civil and Military Service Examination Results for Guangdong Province
Outline of 19th-Century Chinese Civil Service Examinations

Miscellaneous

Abstracts of Theses concerning Taishan County
Chinese Administrative Units
Climate of Taicheng in Taishan County
Diaolous or Gold Mountain Houses in the Wuyi Region
Extracts from the Hong Kong Government Gazette
Chinese Emigration, the Sunning Railway and the Development of Toisan
Churches of the Wuyi Region
Geographical and Historical Notes on the Wuyi Region
Geographical Features in Taishan
Glossary of Useful Terms
Languages
Punti-Hakka Clan Wars
The Traditional Chinese Family & Lineage
Timeline

Piracy

Piracy in the South China Seas
s.s. Sunning

Personal Histories

Taishanese Expatriates in Australia

Tan (譚) Clan

Founding Settlers of the Tan Clan of Taishan County
Honourable Ancestors: My Search for the Chinese Connection
Origins of the Tan Clan Name
Tom Genealogy (external site)

Notices

If you haven't ordered and paid for your copy of Henry Tom's book Tan Genealogy: Heritage and Lineage, you are too late.

The updated Tan Clan Register for Taishan City should be available in Chinese sometime in September 2009. Once price and postage is known, orders will be taken.

Help

Correspondence and Help
Genealogical Contacts
Travel and Tourism

External Links

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