Tag: Chan Bon Kheng (曾文卿)

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Relative Finder: Saga after the storm (1)

These photos of the Chan children (clockwise from top left) – Nenita, Eugenio “Enio,” Nimfa, Elisa, Rodrigo (Bon Huan) and Estela – were sent along with some notes from China to the Philippines and were used in searching for lost siblings. Topmost is a photo of the searcher’s mother.

This epic quest involves several families and spans locations from China’s Fujian province, to Hong Kong, and to the Philippine islands of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Despite extreme obstacles, each find is a result of unexpected but fortuitous happenings.Precedence My late father-in-law, Engr. Antonio B. Ty (鄭道党), is my role model in my relative-finder quests. […]