Start with verifiable clues
Create a root-tracing file and compare names, generation names, ancestral origins, hall names, and migration clues item by item against genealogies, surname materials, and local literature. The system only recommends candidates; you confirm the final conclusion based on sources.
No login required · Public trial search
Enter a surname, then add one item such as ancestral origin, hall name, generation name, ancestor’s name, or migration destination. The system will provide candidate materials and the basis for each hit, so you can return to the original genealogy pages for verification.
Public search results
0 candidates, for further verification only
Need ongoing verification?After logging in, you can save these clues, record original-page evidence, and categorize conclusions as confirmed, relatively credible, pending verification, or conflicting.
Log in to save a root-tracing fileCurrently searchable materials
The catalog size comes from the current public genealogy database and is automatically synchronized after system updates; no fabricated data is displayed.
Compare by genealogy title, surname, region, hall name, generation name, person, and migration clues; when images are available, you can continue to view the original pages.
Go to the genealogy databaseUsed to understand surname origins, commandery origins and hall names, migration distribution, and historical figures; not used directly as proof of lineage.
Go to the surname culture databaseSearch for old place names, people, villages, ancestral halls, migration events, and local administrative history to add regional evidence to genealogy clues.
Enter the Local Gazetteer LibraryLoading root-seeking archives and family information…
The match score only indicates that the text in the records is close to known clues. It cannot replace human judgment. Formal confirmation should verify at least the following four layers of information.
Check genealogical names, current names, courtesy names, art names, childhood names, and people with the same name to ensure different individuals are not being merged.
Check birth periods, ages across adjacent generations, and continuity of generational order to rule out incorrect cross-generation links.
Compare ancestral origins, settlement sites, old place names, and migration directions, and confirm changes in administrative divisions.
Keep the genealogy title, edition, volume, and page number, then cross-check with inscriptions, local gazetteers, family letters, or oral accounts.
Prepare Before Searching
You do not need to ask everything at once. Preserving the original wording and uncertainties is more valuable than guessing for the sake of completeness.
Personal root-seeking archive
After login, your ancestral place, generational characters, hall name, and family members from the Personal Center will be loaded automatically. Your root-seeking archive is visible only to you by default and will not be automatically published on the website.
My root-seeking archive
1 family members have participated in organizing clues
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Enter your surname and any one of ancestral origin, hall name, or generation character, then start matching materials.
Preserve elders’ original words, alternative names, ancestral places, reasons for migration, and related persons.
Compare family genealogies, local gazetteers, inscriptions, archives, and records from descendants of the same branch.
For important conclusions, return to the genealogy name, edition, volume, and original page; do not replace the original text with a summary.
Distinguish between confirmed, relatively credible, to be verified, and conflicting; do not force lineage connections.
After organizing your root-seeking archive, you may submit requests for genealogy searches, historical place-name checks, original page identification, and lineage comparison.
Formal cases will be fully organized after authorization from the parties involved, covering “known clues, search scope, original page evidence, conflict handling, and final conclusion.” Unauthorized personal information will not be made public.
