More Genealogy

On the subject of genealogy, while in Calgary early last month, we spent an hour or so on a Sunday afternoon with Uncle Sam and Auntie Lily. Uncle Sam kindly showed us the genealogical records he'd been working on, which was really exciting to see. The photo below is of the original, handwritten record he was able to procure in China for the price of a cell phone (that's a whole other story there!). We didn't want to handle the pages much, as they seemed quite worn and the characters rather faded, but we did ask to see the page on which our yeye, Biu Tang, would have recorded the birth of each of his sons. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, although yeye's brothers all made the effort to have their sons (i.e., dad's cousins) recorded in the book, our yeye apparently did not think it a very high priority, and our branch of the line ends with him. So you can see for yourself, I've circled his name in red (digitally, obviously!), and as Uncle Sam pointed out, you will note there are no descendants written below him, although we know he had quite a few -- I mean, we all Tangs and Tang cousins have to have come from somewhere, don't we!