My mother in law had an interesting ancestor. Her grandfather was a minister during the end period of the Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1911). During the revolutionary military uprising (the Wuchang Uprising) in 1911, he sent his wife and his son to Malaysia with a promise that he would follow afterward. After travelling by boat for months, they finally arrived in Pahang, which is a state in Malaysia safely.
However, the husband never arrived in Malaysia. It was not known whether he got killed during the revolution or he managed to run away but the ship sank. There is another possibility which is that he stayed in China and lost contact with his wife, thus got married again with other women. If this is the case, then we have unknown relatives somewhere in china. Another possibility is that he managed to escape, landed safely but in a different part of Malaysia and lost contact with his wife.
It’s very mind boggling to think that we could probably have other relatives out there somewhere.
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Unknown Relatives
About Genealogy
Are you interested in genealogy? I do. I like to learn about my family history. I am lucky that both my parents still remember about their ancestors. I have already jotted down all the names that they could remember. My father said that actually back in our clan/family house in China, they keep a big book that recorded all the names of all the clan. My dad said that the book even has my name in it. Too bad that I wasn’t interested about genealogy when I went to China 23 years ago, otherwise I could have copied that book when I visited the family house.
