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George Taro Furuya

One of the clever functions in the Vic CEDT Search tool is the ability to search for applicants by Nationality. A search for Japanese nationals will return these eight results. https://www.cafhov.org.au/vic-cedt-index/?type=advanced&search=Japanese&criteria-terms=all&criteria-field=nationality&sort-field=&sort-direction=&criteria-year=any Untitled Showa by Mayu Kanamori is an arts project that explores the relationship between found photographs and the process of reconnecting to the people in…

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‘But where is your home?’ – Mayu Kanamori reflects on working with CEDT certificates

by Mayu Kanamori (artist, born in Tokyo and based in Sydney) Mayu Kanamori is an artist, born in Tokyo, and based in Sydney. Her works include Through A Distant Lens, a play based on the search of lost photographs taken by a Japanese Australian photographer Yasukichi Murakami (1880-1944) and You’ve Mistaken Me For A Butterfly,…

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How did we transcribe these records?

by Terry Young (Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria) Terry is a first generation Chinese Australian. As an adult he developed a curiosity about the unspoken lives of his Cantonese speaking parents. Both migrated to Australia during difficult times, personally and historically. Terry’s family research has helped shape his persona and identity. He continues to…

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Finding My Dad

by Marie Hammond (Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria) I joined the Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria (CAFHOV) to learn more about my Dad’s life in Australia. He was known as George Woon later in life but the name he used when he first arrived was Ah Tow. With the help of CAFHOV member…

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Found: Louey Leong Hock

by Anna Wolf (Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria) In May 2019, walking past the Chinese Museum in Little Bourke Street on my way to a yum cha with my husband’s family, I was thinking that I had not been to the museum for a long time. So when I got home, I looked up…

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Studio photographs and the Vic CEDT Registers: Lucy and Leslie Quon Kee and the Vincent Kelly photograph collection

From the last decades in the nineteenth century local photographic studios began opening across Victoria in country towns and Melbourne suburbs. Photographic technology had developed to a point that it was now within the reach of many. Some of the collections of these photographic studios have survived in the form of glass plate negatives -…

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Linking CEDT Registers and the B13 correspondence series: Ah Lipp

by Sophie Couchman (Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria) Using a person’s name or the C&E number you can use the National Archives of Australia’s RecordSearch (https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au) to search the B13 ‘General and classified correspondence, annual single number series’. This is the main series of correspondence of the Collector of Customs in Melbourne held by…

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