Lim Generation

i was talking wif mumsie bout kids names yday noon when we came to talk bout the chinese names. so it kept me wondering wad the name after Lim would be since it is the generation name.

For example, Lim Tao Hee. Lim would be my family surname, Tao would be the generation name, and Hee would jus be my name.

so i was looking for the generation name for the generation after mine. why bother n jus use another name? my reason would be having a generation name is darn cool!! hahaha beside, its a family thing so i wanna continue doing it and with this, we could trace back our ancestors and possibly find our long lost relatives.

i remember then that my dad told me that there was a book we could refer to, to check which names to use and listed in there was the names of our ancestors. however, that book was long missing. so what other option other than finding the names on9. so i did!!! i googled ever possible phrase i could think of n opened every page which seemed interesting.

then i came upon a forum. this dude posted and asked what did his chinese name meant. he did mention that he is from thailand, had the family name Lim, has a generation name, is a hainan, and his granddad was from the hainan islands!.. what are the odds?!?!?!?!

my surename's Lim, i have a generation name, i m a hainan and my granddad's from the hainan islands.

he did mentioned too that, he onced had a paper consisting names so i was darn curious, i posted a reply. this was how its like:

tao's the generation name so i was wondering wad would be the name for the nex generation and so forth!! btw, im from malaysia

the thing is, my dad told me my name, tao, was a generation name given to me of which all my cousins have the same generation name. n the name was given to us from a book. my dad told me too that we have relatives from thai n that he had lost contact with them. last he visited them was 20 years back.

my granddad is from hainan island. my dad told me that my granddad had separated from his siblings when they left china. n that my granddad ended up in malaysia as another at thailand. if im not wrong, there are a few more other siblings.

bout the book, our copy of the book is somewhat lost and my dad told me that there's another copy with the relatives at thai. somewhat, we could be long lost relatives

i checked the forum a few hours later, and there was a reply!!! n mentioned that there;s a generation chart i could download from this website from sabah.

http://www.sabah.net.my/asys/Generation%20Chart.xls

u could have a look if u want to. its all in mandarin tho.

i opened the file and was amazed how big the file was. i then asked my dad to hav a look. since he doesn know how to read as well, lol, i asked him to look for names since he knew his and my granddad's name. so he did...n he found his!!! n my granddad's!!! somewhere around the 36th generation, my dad's name's listed in there so im the 37th!!! looks lk my family go way back!! hahahahha

due to that, im kinda inspired to look for more info bout erverything there is bout my family!! geheeeeeeee!!! =D