Would it be possible to create smaller Asian Groups, for example, maybe by historical or religious s
There are so many different histories incorporated under the continent label "Asia" that I'm not sure a general group for Asia is very helpful. Doing family history for a family in India is completely different from doing family history for a family in the Philippines, and completely different from doing family history for a family in Korea. For one, their records systems are completely different. India was colonized by the British, so their records are either government and land related and kept by the British institutions who created them or are informal trees and lines of descent kept by pandas of the Hindu faith (because British colonialism was financially motivated and facilitated by merchant companies). The Philippines was colonized by Spain, so the majority of their records were linked to the Catholic Church in some way, because Spanish colonialism was facilitated by missionaries. It was then made a US territory, so much of their military records and trade opportunities prior to independence as a republic are actually housed as United States records. And Korean records are all kept locally, similar to China, and I'm assuming Japan (I don't know for sure about Japan). Chinese records were kept clan specific, and the key to their record keeping system is entirely local. Korea is similar, though I don't think it's the exact same document structure--but it would probably be similar since the two nations historically interacted with one another and their naming patterns and language structures are similar.
Personally, I think research groups are great when they can be focused into discussions. But just by looking at the comment threads on this board it seems generally unproductive as a collaborative community effort, simply because everyone is coming here needing different things that just happen to all fall under the generic "Asia" land mass label.
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I completely agree that the most productive and helpful groups are probably going to be fairly specific. One of the difficulties in setting up the best framework for research groups is finding individuals who can and will help care for the more specific groups. The generic broad groups like Asia should be replaced at some point by the more specific ones. The separate groups for the countries in the British Isles have been slowly growing and developing.
Do you think it would be worth starting several regional groups for Asia now or wait to see interest increase? Did you come into the FamilySearch Community looking for a specific group or topic?
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I would be willing to help out with Japanese (particularly Japanese-American). I have helped numerous Japanese-Americans obtain their joseki documents from their ancestral villages in Japan. I served a mission in Japan and am able to read the Japanese kanji.
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We are very anxious to start new groups and identifying group leaders and other helpers is the first step. If you know others that could be recruited to help then it may be possible to start a new group quite fast.
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I can help with the Philippines.
Thanks for the response and sorry for the delay.
I think most of us come out of curiosity hoping to find something that we might be able to use. Personally, I came originally because it was a homework assignment for class, which is probably why there are research queries showing up. It's an assignment in the Family History 111 and 120 classes to post a research query on a community board and this is one of the options.
I'd be interested in seeing either a Philippines group or a Hispanic Catholic Records group.
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Looking for Barcarse in Pangasinan and also possible marriage of Barcarse to Tejada also from Pangasinan. Can you help me?
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Would like to start a group of Ilocanos in the Pangasinan area of the Philippines
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Possibly!
Do you know where in Pangasinan your line is from? Initial searches found some hits in Mangatarem but the migration pattern in the results suggests you might actually trace back to the Ilocos region. Of you can figure out where in Pangasinan, you can get more information out of the Catholic Church records on FamilySearch. Most of the collection isn't indexed, so you'd have to know where to look first. Not ever parish is available, but there's usually more than what there seems to be, depending on the area.
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Barcarse was in Sual and Lingayen and also possibly in Cagayan
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I agree. i specialize in Romblon genealogy.
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Tell me a little about Romblon genealogy. I've not heard about it, probably because almost everything I've learned about genealogy has focused on Europe and the United States.
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To those who think it's last name, it is a province in the Philippines. People living there mainly have last names that start with F, G, M, and R.
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