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The Villages where Gin Family Members ( 甄 ) could have come from

Based on our research using Gin Clan Jupu (甄氏族譜) as reference points, we have compiled a list of villages where the Gin Family Members of Guangdong (past and present) could have come from. Click to jump to this list 甄氏宗視聚居的鄉村名稱   We have retained the names of the villages, its administrative post and the name of the Town in Chinese, to help family roots researchers in tracing the location of their ancestral village.

In addition, we have the following information extracted from the "Roots Village Database". Thanks to Dominic Yu for making this database accessible to family researchers.   To paraphrase Dominic Yu's introduction to his web site, "The Roots Village Database ... a digitization of the information from the Index of Clan Names By Villages published by the American Consulate General in Hong Kong in the 1970s. Originally used to investigate immigration fraud, this data is now valuable for genealogy research."

Based on the Roots Village Database and our discussions with Gin ( 甄 ) family members who were born in the Toisan (台山 ) / Kaiping (開平) region which forms part of the Siyi Region (四邑), in general, if you are a Gin with roots in the Pearl River Delta region of Guangdong, P.R.C., most likely your forebears originated from one of the four "Heung" (鄉), that is:

• 石海鄉 / Shek Hoi Heung
• 霞坑鄉 / Har Hang Heung
• 勒沖鄉 / Lak Chung Heung
• 旺北鄉 / Wong Pak Heung

The particular village where your ancestors lived, that is, your Ancestral Home, can be located in the following table extracted from the "Roots Village Database".    We also provide in greater details of the villages ( 村 ) located in the Shek Hoi Heung (石海鄉). This is provided by the Shek Hoi Heung Management. Click here to get to 石海鄉 directly.   We intend to include similar details of other (鄉)Heung, as and when we obtain updates.

Note though our progenitor, Gin Sun Hall (甄舜河) came from the central plain of China in the first place.   Thus, if you trace back in generations far enough, the Gins actually originated from the Shanxi province -- see our page on "Family History" or by clicking "Up" on the left bar to return to "Family History".

石海鄉 / Shek Hoi Heung in greater detail.

In November 2008 members of this Editorial Board conducted further researches on the names of villages in the Siyi Region where the Gin Family Members either residing locally or overseas, could have come from.  Using the Gin Clan Jupu (甄氏族譜) as reference points, we have now compiled the following non exhaustive list of villages where our forefathers came from.  Note that as we conduct further searches, we will update this list.

甄氏宗視聚居的鄉村名稱