Due to the popular demand, Chinese Culture Center now provides Genealogy Service (at this point, the service is only available for CCC members who have ancestry in the Pearl River Delta area in Guangdong Province.) We will continue to improve the site with more services and options once they became available.

Media Coverage about this wonderful program & roots leader Al Cheng from the San Francisco Chronicle:

• Young Americans find roots in China - S.F. program offers history and genealogy, helps locate relatives
  by Olivia Wu, Chronicle Staff Writer, published on Sunday, February 18, 2007
• One man’s search for past shaped program - Group leader sought his Chinese roots, found his purpose
  by Olivia Wu, Sunday, February 18, 2007

For more information, read an essay about the Roots Program written by Al Cheng and Him Mark Lai from the book, “The Chinese in America”, a collection of Chinese American essays.

Book of Roots Essays & Stories is now available to order. This book includes the Roots Route Map, the essays by the interns and their trip leader, photographs, media coverages as well as the family trees created by each intern.

What does it mean to be a Chinese American?
Would you like to discover more about who you are?

We offer you an opportunity to search for the roots that link you to the past and place you in the present… to journey back to ancestral beginnings, to the land and into the lives of the individuals who created your heritage and influenced you at this point in your life.

The Chinese Culture Center’s “In Search of Roots” Program involves a yearlong commitment on researching one’s Chinese American family history and genealogy. After exploring their Chinese roots in America, participants will explore their roots in China through visiting their maternal or paternal ancestral villages in the Pearl River Delta region of Guangdong Province. The program culminates in a Chinese New Year exhibition of the interns’ research at the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco, where participants share what they have learned with family, friends, and community.

Highlights from In Search of Roots (Courtesy of Gilbert Lee):

This program is sponsored by Chinese Historical Society of America and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office in Guangdong Province of the People’s Republic of China.

Official Airline Sponsor of In Search of Roots 2006 and 2007

Former roots interns, please join the roots network: