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Celebrating 100 years of our branch of the Owyang family in North America!
On November 8, 1905, Hoon Owyang (a.k.a. Owyang Koon Cheung) disembarked from the SS Empress of China in Vancouver, BC. He took a train to Sumas, Washington, where on November 18, he applied to land in the United States as a Chinese merchant of Yau Lan Moon, Canton. On November 23, he was admitted to the U.S., at the age of 27. The photograph from his Certificate of Merchant status appears above. Find out more here and see the immigration documents here.
Click on the photo for a larger image of the Hoon Owyang family, taken around 1944. This project is documenting family histories. In late 2001, we found a great deal of new (to us) materials on the immigration of Hoon Owyang (aka Owyang Koon Cheung) and his wife Gee Chew Lin Owyang (Grant and Carla and cousins' grandparents) at the National Archives center in San Bruno, CA. Then, through a distant Owyang cousin, we found an amazing book on the genealogy and history of 4,700 years of Owyangs! Click to find out more.
This couplet tells the history of the origins of the Owyang name! Click on it to find what it means!
1975 Tule Lake Photos Unearthed! Recently, Grant found negatives from the 1975 pilgrimage to Tule Lake. The prints are now on the Tule Lake Committee's website and include photos of what appear to be guard towers and barracks before they collapsed or were torn down.
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What's New Shinzen ambassadors report on their Japan cultural exchange in the summer of 2009 (a next generation Tonai Din was in the group)
The 2nd Owyang reunion took place in Oakland on Sunday, October 26, 2008. Please click the link to view a page that has links to photos and videos from the presentations that day.
Louise Owyang, the Amazing Hat Lady, featured in the Montclarion! Click here for a scan of the photo that appeared, which didn't make it onto the website, and the article. (8/08)
Hokubei Mainichi article on the Shinzen program includes a Gong and a Din! (7/08)
Next Generation Owyangs receive Montera Award; (6/08)
Jack Din featured in Pocket (Sacramento neighborhood) newsletter! (5/08)
Hoon Owyang's A-file recently arrived from the National Archives (2/08)
Owyang cousins journeyed to our ancestral village! Visit the blog and see the photos. (11/06)
Din laundry featured on Woodland website
Trace 4,200 years of Gong ancestors! More Family Histories Dins/Gongs
This is a ticket from the Din family laundry, which was located in downtown Woodland, Calif., from the 1920s to 1940s. Click on the image to learn more about the laundry and the family's experiences in Woodland. Click here to see some of Grandmother Lock Din's actual immigration papers. Din is our family's paper name; Grandfather's name in China was Gong Bow Gwun and we have traced Gong ancestry in China over 150 generations back! Itos and Tonais
We also have biographies of Rosalyn's grandmother Kaoru Ito and her father Ichiro, with more information on her mother Grace and other ancestors to follow.
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