Posted by Benson Kwong on October 04, 2000 at 08:33:01:
In Reply to: looking for a place to start posted by Jamie Lepore on October 03, 2000 at 18:28:19:
You may want to check out the post on this site titled "visiting your ancestral village" by JWC Low.
Villagers from each village in Toishan typically share the same surname. There are organizations in major Chinatowns organized around these surnames.