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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">First of all, let me thank everyone who has responded to my query. I will try to follow up on your recommended readings.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">A couple of further refinements to my original query:</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">1. Is it possible to tell from someone's surname whether he had Chinese antecedents (dating back to whatever period)? The number of common Korean surnames seems very limited--Kim, Yee, Yoo, etc. A few years ago when I was
touring the Confucian temple at Qufu, our driver was surnamed Jin рк. I had never met anyone with that surname. He said that his family had been settled in southern Shandong since the Ming dynasty, but given that his surname was so unusual there, he speculated
that his forebears were from Shanxi province. In the case of European immigrants to North America, it was not at all uncommon for people to anglicize their names. But if someone today has the surname DePasquale he is likely to be of Italian descent, and if
his surname is Horowitz, Ashkenazi Jewish.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">2. By Choson I assume people are referring to the dynasty which came to a definitive end with the Japanese annexation in 1910. Did the Choson administration keep census registries for all persons resident in Korea including
"hwangjoin"? After the Japanese annexation did the Japanese administration keep census registries and records of comings and goings?</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">Thank you for your assistance.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">Best regards,HKJ</font></div>
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