I am trying to find the names of my Korean ancestors, but most family history centers I go to say th
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You may wish to view the FamilySearch Wiki which has information for both South and North Korea.
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Most of the records you are after will only be in Korean, or more likely, in Hanja (Chinese characters used in Korea). You can find all Korean records at the following link, but you'll see that nothing is in English: https://www.familysearch.org/search/image/index?owc=https://www.familysearch.org/service/cds/recapi/collections/1398522/waypoints
I can understand both Korean and English and am a certified Korean to English translator. Feel free to send me a message and I can see what I can do to help. Any information you already have in Korean would be helpful as a starting point to me. - Corey Colling
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Thanks so much for getting back to me Corey! So I actually got lucky and stumbled upon a website that does a great job explaining how to go about doing korean family history, which helped me figure out my clan name and find all the volumes for my family! I could use help translating some of the characters on the main page that lists all the volumes. They are in Hangul! Could I send you a link with the page and maybe you could help me out with some of the translation? There are just a few that I don't understand, most of them have the year and volume in English but some don't! Let me know if you would be able to help. Thank you!
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No problem! Feel free to send me an email. corey@koreanenglish.com
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Please feel free to share the link for the website you stumbled upon that helped you. It may help other users as well!
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Hello everyone. I just found this group today. I am working on my Korean Genealogy after finding the correct family record on FamilySearch earlier this year (took a while) and have found this link very helpful: http://koreangenealogy.org/ . I am trying to decipher Hanja with no prior knowledge with this link and google translate and it is slow going but making progress. If there are others trying to do likewise, hope to connect with others for encouragement and to help each other out. Thank you. --Joy
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Thank you for posting that wonderful link!
Here are a couple of nice videos I found on Hanja, if you want to watch. They may help a bit as well!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYFB3WCoZq4
Mastering Hanja (Chinese) Characters Necessary to Read Jokbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iO82uzw5fA&feature=emb_imp_woyt
How to Read Your Korean Genealogy
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