Interim Asia Project

Profile managers: Jack Day [send private message], Steven Harris [send private message], and Maria Maxwell [send private message]

Goal and Activities

Jack Day: The goal of this project is to assist and promote collaboration for profiles in Asia.

Asia Project Background

The Asia Project has been formed because other than the India and Indonesia Projects, there are no projects focused on Asian countries, either major projects or free-space Projects. This page hopes to serve as a way of identifying and expanding that interest.

Potentially Helpful Activities

This list is in brain-storming mode. Feel free to add to the list. Include your link and initials at the end of each suggestion. Do not worry about how practical the suggestion is. One person's very impractical suggestion may spur another person to think of a very practical and useful one.

• Create a page for Asian Naming Conventions, where we can think through different ways of naming and provide suggestions for how to make them work in WikiTree 12/28 jhd
• Create different language portals with a view that someone whose English is weak would be able to find WikiTree instructions in their own language. 12/28 jhd
  • It's not a language portal per se, but WT does have the language templates (e.g., my profile), and the results are gathered in the language categories (e.g., Category:Ar. 12/31/28 eph
• Create a page with links to all the G2G discussions related to Asia and Asian countries, especially those related to language and formatting. 12/28/jhd
• Create a Space naming Notables and collaborate with the Notables Project to make sure there are profiles for all of them. 12/29/jhd
• Work with Profile Improvement Project to develop well-done bilingual and trilingual profiles. 12/29/jhd
• Develop a country by country list of important genealogical resources, included not at all limited to those in English. 12/29/jhd (see Category: Asia Genealogy Resources for a starting point, gm)
• Develop processes for welcoming and supporting WikiTree members from Asia whose English-speaking ability is limited or non-existent. 12/29/jhd
• Maintain list of resources and how to use them if needed -- National Archives of Japan, China Collection of Genealogies, 1239-2014 (available on FamilySearch)...
• Asia Categories (space page) was started for a proposed change to the category structure for Asia. Should continue development and move to the formal proposal process.

Projects

Current Asia Projects

There are at least two current Asia Projects

• China free-space project

• India Project

Leader: Vacant

• Indonesia Project

Leader: Bea Wijma

Project Coordinator: Jack Day

Language Expert: Susan Scarcella

• Japan Project

Place holder for a future Japan Project. Eowyn is the contact.

Interested Leader/Member: Steve Harris

Related Projects

The following are related, existing projects dealing with countries in Asia:

• Project:Jewish Roots (Israel)
• Project:Russian Roots

Potential Subprojects

• European Trading Companies. Numbers of people from Europe were involved in the British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Those with a specific interest in the people that these companies brought to Asia might find it a useful subproject. 12/28/jhd
• Honourable East India Company This is a sub project of the India Project. Anyone interested in leading this sub project should contact Maria

Interested Persons

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Expressing interest here does not represent ANY kind of commitment! We need to see how this evolves in order to see what commitments will be sought!

Leaders

• Steve Harris
• Azure Robinson

Project Coordinators

• Jack Day

Pre-1500 Certified

• Jack Day
• Maria Maxwell
• Vivienne Caldwell

Language Skills

• Jack Day -- small amount of Indonesian; can make out French.
• Eric Hoffman -- Arabic, some minor Japanese (enough to be dangerous?)

Country Interests

• Jack Day -- Indonesia, India, Malaysia, China, Historic Caliphates. (Grew up in China, Malaysia, Indonesia, went to school in India, worked two years in Saudi Arabia)

• Moore-14517 -- I created a Space:Korean_Naming_Convention_in_Wikitree for Korean Profiles a while back but could not get any constructive comments. There is a rich source of Historic Korean genealogy profiles already in Wikitree, e.g. see Category: Joseon Dynasty.

• Maria Maxwell -- India and Japan
  • I've developed an interest in India since creating the project !! It seems it would be better to develop the project into a series of "one name (gotra) studies" as well as geographical. Any assistance with this project would be wonderful.
  • Developing an interest in Japan as my grandaughter is learning the language and fascinated with the country.

• Eric Hoffman -- The Middle East & Japan
  • Was fluent in Arabic once upon a time, studied Middle Eastern/Arabic/Islamic culture in the process
  • Studied Japanese and Buddhist Iconography for several years in college (note: the early '90s haha)

• Steve Harris -- Eastern Asia; including China, Japan and Mongolia
  • Interest stems from a fascination in Asian History. I would also be interested in the documentation/categorization of Chinese Kin (Chinese Clans) from zupu/jaipu (Chinese genealogy books (family books) that are maintained by the eldest male of the kin (clan).

• Vivienne Caldwell -- Early British in Singapore, British East India Company, Fort Marlborough, Sumatra.

• Khosrow Adibsamii -- Samii family tree Iran, Right to left language issues, Non-English profile language issues, customization of Wikitree menus and tools per language, Profile linking issues across language barriers

• Aaron Moore -- Moy Family in China
  • Great-Great Grandfather immigrated to Washington, D.C. from Guangdong, China in the late 1800's.
  • Willing to commit to this project whenever needed. I have limited experience but I'm always willing to help where I can.

• Azure Robinson Started a free-space project to get the ball rolling for China as well as the following pages:

Sources-China

Chinese Name Field Guidelines