He spent 2 weeks searching, showing his picture, then concluded he was probably killed in the riots against Chinese immigrants there.Įventually my mom and some other siblings were able to bring almost the whole family to the US, which took many years. Oh, one thing I forgot to mention.this was probably in the 50s or 60s.my grandfather travelled to Indonesia I think, or maybe it was Singapore.to search for a brother he knew fled to that country from China. Without citizenship, their businesses were forced to close, and if you weren't a citizen you couldn't become a professional, like a lawyer or doctor. We couldn't afford citizenship for anyone but him, and even though the children were born in the Philippines, that does not make you a citizen at that time. She would send her income home to support the family, because my grandfather died around this time.this is already the 1960s/70s. She studied nursing because she was sick of the politics in the Philippines (many crimes against Chinese there, I won't get in to it here unless asked) and used it to travel to the United States. They had 12 sons and daughters (1 was also adopted, as per tradition), and one of them was my mom. They eventually learned the local language as well. My grandparents were uneducated, did not know how to read or write but taught themselves how to tell time and count numbers (to run the businesses). Now that he had citizenship, he began many of his own businesses and rose to middle class - some business include rice delivery, a bakery, and a duck farm (selling ducklings and balut, which is duck boiled in its own egg). I guess maybe it was like buying someone's lost passport? Anyway, we could only afford for 1 person to buy it. He finally earned enough money to buy citizenship in the Philippines.but when you buy citizenship, you also buy someone else's surname. My grandfather worked in the docks, hauling lumber until he saved enough money to pay for his wife to join him in the Philippines. Many fled to Southeast Asia, like Indonesia or the Philippines.the Philippines is known to have many Fukien people even to this day. At this point in time, many people were trying to escape China any way they could to get out of Communism. When he was 18, he stowed away on a ship that sailed from China to the Philippines. She also said something about his brows, but I've never seen a picture so I can't describe the shape. One of my aunts hypothesizes that he's not from Fuzhou, possibly may not be Han Chinese, because he has darker skin and bushy hair. So he was adopted, and we have no idea where he's from since the papers were lost in the revolution. It was custom back then that if you adopt your first child, you'll have good luck producing lots of your own children. A long time ago, villages liked to do things like ibalism holdover I guess? Anyway, my grandfather is from the same area, only thing is that he was adopted. My mom's mother is from Fuzhou, China, from a village where everyone's last name is 葉 (leaf). To start from the beginning of what I know. I only know about my mom's side of the family, and the farthest back we know is the beginning of the 20th Century.īoth my mom and dad don't have their original last names. I wish I could trace mine back centuries like other people can. Instructions and advice on how to best do an AMA. Want to do an AMA or know someone who does? Message the mods! Comments should be on-topic and contribute.ĭiscussions are limited to events over 20 years ago.If a post breaks one of our rules or guidelines you will be informed about it. So it is perfectly normally for your post to not show up in the new listing. Feel free to submit interesting articles, tell us about this cool book you just read, or start a discussion about who everyone's favorite figure of minor French nobility is!Īll posts will be reviewed by a human moderator first before they become visible to all subscribers on the subreddit. r/History is a place for discussions about history. Join the r/history Discord server to chat with other history enthusiast!
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