My China Roots plans to establish a family history centre here to help Singaporeans conduct targeted online searches. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – When a Chinese-Singaporean in his 50s sought help to find out more about his late father, genealogist Huihan Lie and his team immediately scoured databases of Chinese ancestors and conducted field investigations in China.
Prices range between $120 for an online subscription to collect and share one’s historical records for a year, and $3,000 on average to locate one’s ancestral village and Jiapu, which refers to Chinese genealogy records. The partnership came about when both Mr Ng and Mr Lie noticed a spike in interest from two years ago among Singaporeans to discover their Chinese ancestral roots. Last December, My Chinese Roots saw 12,000 visitors from Singapore on its online platform, double the number in the same month in 2021.
“A meeting with a distant cousin in Xiamen, who knew about one of my ancestral villages, signalled the start of an immensely rewarding search for my roots, a journey that taught me about my family, our history and myself.” Assignments to locate ancestral roots, which take about one to six months, start with a client giving information like names of ancestors who left China and documents like photos of family and tombstones.
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