Records of Empress Chen on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Empress Chen and the Chen Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Chen Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Chen family tree.

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Chen Family Tree Databases

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Chen Forums

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Some Famous People called Empress Chen

Empress Chen (Jiajing)

Empress Xiaojiesu (1508–1528), of the Chen clan, was a Chinese empress consort of the Ming dynasty, first empress to the Jiajing Emperor.

She was the daughter of Chen Wanyang (d. 1535). She was selected in to the palace of the Jiajing Emperor in 1522. Later that year, she was appointed empress upon the wish of the emperor's aunt, the Empress Dowager Zhang. Because of the tense personal relationship between the Emperor and his aunt, however, he did not take a liking to Chen. In 1528, she became pregnant. During the pregnancy, the Emperor exposed her to a fit of rage, which caused a fatal miscarriage.

The Emperor did not permit her to be buried in the imperial mausoleum: this was not done before 1567.

Source: Empress Chen (Jiajing), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Chen

Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.

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