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Name:	Carl Lam
Hometown:	Columbia, South Carolina
Chinese/Guyanese ancestry?:	Lam - I actually have visited the Lams in Guayana

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Thank you for the most informative Chinese diaspora data and story available. I find that I can only trace back to my great grandparents. I wish I could find more information related to my family background.

Message Number: 43 - Sunday, January 17, 2010 19:34:49 PDT
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Name:	Terrance > Fung
Hometown:	Great Falls, VA
Chinese/Guyanese ancestry?:	yes

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My family also came from China many moons ago. Mother Nesta Yhap Shing and Father George Fanfred Fung also somewhere related to the Sue A Quan. Also related to the Choys.
Been in the USA now since 1980. If anyone would like to stay in touch best by email since I travel alot. Take care

Name:	kelly hamilton
Hometown:	chicago
Chinese/Guyanese ancestry?:	yes

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My mother's best friend from 1935 was Jane King, Jane went on to become a principal at either the elementary school or high school near Currentyne Village? My mother doesn't know where exactly - Jane was of African American Decent and married -so my mother doesn't know her married name. If anyone has a history on Jane King from the 30's or 40's from 79 village - I would love to see if she's still living or meet her relatives. My mother talks about her all the time, that was her Best Friend in the later 30's and 1940s.
kellymodjeski@yahoo.com RE: Jane King & Kathleen Chung Tiam-Fook. Anymore Tiam-Fooks out there from 79th village?

Name:	Kelly Hamilton
Hometown:	Chicago, Illinois
Chinese/Guyanese ancestry?:	Yes

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My Grandfather was Charles Chung Tiam-Fook and his father was Peter Chung Tiam-Fook from New Amsterdam. Charles owned the Paladium Movie Theater in 79 Village, Currentyne. He was married to Sookea Mohamed (Indian Woman) My Mother was born in May 24, 1930 - her father was 8 when he died at 48 years old, so he would have been born 1890? His childrens names were - Clarice, Ira, Joe, Kathleen (my mother), Stella, Henry and two others died at a young age.
If anyone knows the history of these folks I can be reached at kellymodjeski@yahoo.com

Mother's half sister was Naranee Mohammed Mangru-and Balla Mangru He & she's 96 and still living.

We don't have any pictures of the village - but mother tells us her father charles Tiam-Fook owned several businesses when he was alive. Charles lived in skeldon - in the 20's & 30's. He had a lemonade store & a factory according to my 80 year old mother.

Name:	Penelope Ann Lee
Hometown:	Toronto
Chinese/Guyanese ancestry?:	Yes

Comments:
Wonderful site!

My great grandfather was Moses Chung and my grandmother was Sarah Chung, born Wong. My grandmother was their daughter, Florence born 1909 who married Cuthbert Walter Lee born 1902. That is as far back as I know. I would be very interested to know who came before Moses and Sarah.

Name:	Stephen Hugh
Hometown:	Washington, D. C.
Chinese/Guyanese ancestry?:	Yes

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Many thanks for your tremendous research and insight about the Chinese/Guyanese experience in Cane Reapers and Cane Ripples, and also on this website. My father Albert Stanley Hugh (Bartica) was of Chinese/Guyanese ancestry and I better appreciate his and his family's experiences and ancestral story after reading your insightful books.

Name:	Simeon Tudor
Hometown:	Essequibo, Guyana

Comments:
Good work, keep it up.Hope to return for more readings.

Name:	Stanislaus Lee
Hometown:	Toronto, Canada
Chinese/Guyanese ancestry?:	Yes

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Took me a while but I just finished reading "Cane Ripples" and "From the Middle Kingdom to the New World". Prior to reading these books I thought I knew a lot about the history of the chinese people in Guyana. How can I get hold of the other book that you have written?.
Stan

Name:	Cheryl Woon Sam-Alphonso
Hometown:	Orangeville
Chinese/Guyanese ancestry?:	Chinese

Comments:
Thank you for all the work you have done getting this information. I am looking forward to reading your book and passing it on to my children.

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