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Chinese Surnames http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/3919/
Names found in the Baijiaxing (the Hundred Families Surnames).
The Chinese Historical Society of America http://www.chsa.org/
Dedicated to the study, documentation, and dissemination of Chinese American history.
Chinese Surname Queries http://www.ziplink.net/~rey/ch/queries/
Bulletin board for questions and responses.
In Search of Roots http://www.c-c-c.org/roots/roots.html
Chinese American history and genealogy program from the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco.
The Hundred Families Surnames http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/3919/hundred.html
The 438 names found in the classic work, with meanings and explanation of their order.
Zhongwen.com: Chinese Names http://zhongwen.com/xingshi.htm
The two hundred most common Chinese family names, displayed as characters linked to etymological explanations.
ChinaGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~chnwgw/
Genealogy resources and links to, from and about the country.
Distant Cousins http://www.distantcousin.com/Links/Ethnic/China/Surname.html
Links for Chinese family historians including Chinese genealogy resources and queries.
China Mailing List http://members.aol.com/gfsjohnf/gen_mail_country-chi.html#CHINA
Mail list for Chinese genealogical research.
Yutopian: Genealogy of Chinese Surnames http://www.yutopian.com/names
Lists characters, English transliterations and meanings of selected names.
 

 
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