By: laokokok Luckily there is internet, else updating will be quite a hassle. By: algae My updating were done by my relatives in China. If there is a birth, we will inform them. The list is exhaustive but I’ve yet to count if I have reach the 26th generation. Glad to say that the younger generation is still in touch with their cousins in China via the internet. Like most Chinese clans, we follow the tradition of having the second character as the generation rank followed by the name. By: Timothy Hi LKK, wonder if i can trouble you for a scan copy of the newspaper cutting of the family tree that your wife kept? It looks really good – too bad i was too young to start keeping such snippets of news! Do let me know if there is a lot of trouble for you. Many thanks. By: Peter The updating used to be done by our clan association down in Mosque Street. Unfortunately after my grandfather died in the 1970s, nobody saw it necessary for updating. Also after my grandparents died, there was no more those Ching Ming gatherings. What I have is a “rough tree”, again Victor helped me on this, to piece together my cousins. Beyond my cousins, I am afraid nobody knows who married who, and how many children/descendents after that. In some ways what my late grandmother said has come true: After she died the family will “split” and relatives will not come together again. This leads me to wonder whether in the first place there were too many siblings, whether the only reason for different generations to come together is for the sake of “steam boat” or because people got married and they chose to lead independent lives? What do you all think? By: laokokok You are right YG in the past during the Qing Ming, it’s a get together time for families and relatives. How I miss such gathering. By: laokokok HI Angelene, You can get a print copy from the National Library. Check this out here http://newspapers.nl.sg/ By: laokokok Wah Peter, your family ancestry book must be very thick. So who is doing the updating now? By: yg i am glad there is qing ming. apart from the lunar new year, this is the other time when my siblings and i come together as one big family. By: angelene Hi, I would like to have a copy of the family tree advertised in Straits Times in 1988, is it possible? Thanks! By: acroamatic Wow, Peter… that’s a pretty long family heritage to have in Singapore itself.