Researching Mei Chin
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Records of Mei Chin on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Mei Chin in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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DNA
Sometimes you can run into a brick wall in your tree and you just don't have enough evidence to make that next step back in time. A DNA test can sometimes help to make a link to a particular family name if you find you share common DNA with people who have the same or similar surnames as each other. If you are lucky then you may get a match within a few generations and discover some Chin ancestors. Additionally, the modern DNA test can give you a breakdown of your ethnic mix - you may be surprised at the results!
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Mei Chin and the Chin Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Chin 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 below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. 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 Chin family tree.
Search Parish Records for Mei Chin at Find My Past.
Look at for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Mei Chin using the FreeBMD database.
Look at Genealogy Bank for Mei Chin records.
Search MyHeritage for Mei Chin information.
Study the LDS Database for records about Mei Chin.
Research the Chin surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Chin Military records.
Chin Family Tree Databases
Another way to build your tree quickly is to use the research other people have already done. This can help to confirm or refute your own deductions - however, be wary of taking this data at face value as other researchers may not have been as meticulous as you. Always try to back up deductions with some definitive sources rather than relying too heavily on others.
Search the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Mei Chin.
Study MyTrees for information on the Chin family and people looking to contact living Chin relations.
Explore One Great Family for Chin records submitted by people who are already researching the Chin Family Tree.
Find Mei Chin from Ireland on findmypast.ie
Chin Forums
There are a number of forums which are dedicated to rearching particular surnames. These can be good places to share your findings and also to tap into the knowledge that others may already have. These can sometimes be a good way of finding living relations as these tend not to show up on the other sources of information for privacy reasons.
Research the Chin surname using Genealogy.com forums .
Miscellaneous Chin Databases
Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Mei Chin. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Mei Chin
Mei Chin
Mei Chin (born 1977) is a fiction and food writer living in Dublin.
Her short stories have appeared in Fiction and Bomb magazines and are characterized by a combination of the fantastic and the mundane.
In the late 1990s she was an editor at Vogue, and she has written reviews and essays for Gourmet, Vogue, Mirabella, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications. She is also the author of a number of books of literary criticism for Chelsea House Publishers, and she has taught food writing at Yale University. Her essays have been anthologized in Best Food Writing 2004, 2006, and 2012.
She is a native of Connecticut and a graduate of Hopkins School and Wesleyan University. Her mother, Professor Annping Chin teaches at Yale, and her stepfather, Professor Jonathan Spence, taught there until he retired in 2008.
Source: Mei Chin, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Chin
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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