Live broadcast bar, August 4th news Chinese player expert @ Jallo_Tang sent a long article last night. After data collection and analysis, it was deduced that this year’s NBA55 show and Pacer player Saiyan-Wang had no Chinese ancestry. The original text is as follows:

This issue of Isaiah Wong lineage exploration was jointly launched by @ dongwook and @ josehidalgo.

With the successful citizenship of Li Kael, more Chinese basketball stars have entered the sight of domestic fans, including NBA newcomer Isaiah Wong. There are many opinions about the lineage of Isaiah in Chinese media, including that his great grandfather was Chinese, his great grandfather went to North America to dig railways and so on, and his surname Wong was translated into Wang. Today, we will focus on this Chinese-style name and conduct a deep analysis of his lineage and family background stories, striving for the most real restoration. All materials in this article come from the public information of major websites in the United States, and the derivation process only represents the personal views of the producers.

Q1: Chinese great grandfather and descendant of Chinese workers, are these statements correct?

After searching the English report on the information of Isaiah Wong, we can see that there is indeed such a simple description including Wikipedia and major English media. His great grandfather was Chinese, this is also the most mainstream statement among English media and the information source of all domestic Chinese reports.

But in addition, Fashionur magazine mentioned in his special report that his grandmother was Chinese.

Are these true? Let’s continue to see, according to the introduction of English media, his father’s name is Terrence Wong, from New Jersey, and his mother’s name is LaChell Beckrt. After marriage, he followed his husband’s surname Wong. However, none of the media mentioned the information about his grandparents. We did a lot of searches and found nothing. Obviously, this road is not available.

Therefore, we sacrificed the artifact of finding someone-the Yellow Pages website of the United States. There are many websites of this type in the United States. In addition to locating the residence and contact information of the target person, it can also be associated with his main relatives. With the help of this website, we successfully located his grandparents, Ausborne Wong and Rosemary Wong. The information about Ausborne is also not much, and it can even be said to be pitiful. Fortunately, we found the obituary when he died. The obituary clearly showed that his father was Robert Pitts and his mother was Mabel Wong. Unexpectedly, Wong’s surname actually came from his great-grandmother.

After the investigation was conducted here, we could at least overthrow Wikipedia, English media and all the “Chinese groups” derived from this-information from domestic media. The great grandfather of Isaiah Wong was not Chinese.

Q2: where does this Wong come from?

Following the logic, we try to locate the “Chinese lineage” of his great-grandmother Mabel Wong “. According to the obituary, Ausborne was born in Newark, the largest city in New Jersey, which means that the Mabel couple should have settled in this place, we searched a lot about the name Mabel Wong in all files related to Newark, but none of Mabel Wong was the one we were looking. So we turned around, starting with his grandfather Robert Pitts, a black man from Georgia, and found several public Pitts family tree information. According to the family tree, Mabel’s name is Mabel Cochran, a white female surname from Virginia. Her father and sister are both Cochran, which is obviously her original surname.

We were shocked by this result. Wong was not her original surname and she was not Chinese.

In fact, for the story of Isaiah Wong, it can end here. He may not be a Chinese player as the media said, and this may also be the reason why the basketball association finally gave up naturalizing him.

But in line with the principle of digging three feet… oh no, seeking truth and being pragmatic, we plan to continue to dig where Mabel’s Wong came from.

Mabel Wong

By continuing to study the marriage history of Mabel Cochran, we found that another family tree suggested that she had a relationship with a man named W.W who registered for marriage in New Jersey in April 1921. The two have three women and one man together. Sara, the eldest daughter, was born in 1922 and Harold, the youngest son, was born in 1926. The children born to Mabel and W.W all take Wah as their surname. So if one of the two W is Wah, will the other one be Wong? Let’s continue to look down, also from the third different family tree, showing the full name of W.W, Wong Wah, or Henry Wong Wah. The truth is clear. Mabel’s Wong is actually a husband’s surname. What is the situation of Pitts?

We don’t know how many years the marriage between ASEAN’s grandmother and Wong Wah lasted, but in the US census in 1935, Mabel’s marital status showed that she was already single, this year, the great grandfather Robert Pitts of Isaiah Wong was married, but he was still in another marriage. His wife was Carrie Pitts. The grandfather of Isaiah Wong was born in 1943 Ausborne. In short, Carrie may have died or divorced in the years after 1935, and the great grandparents of Isaiah Wong came together, both of them had marriage before. Why is it sure that Ausborne must be Robert’s own? Besides the obituary, there is also a proof that Robert’s father is also called Ausborne. It is very common in Europe and America to name children after their elders.

For some reason, perhaps the two were not registered for marriage. The children born by Robert and Mabel continued to hang in their ex-husband’s home, but they were different from Wong Wah’s biological children. The former was Wong and the latter was Wah. This is a puzzling point. Judging from Mabel himself and her descendants, they clearly know that Henry Wong Wah is named Wong, not Wah, but why is Wong Wah’s child named Wah? Is it a registration error or something else? It seems that we still have to find more information about Henry Wong Wah.

1918hnery Wong Wah conscription card

According to the registration information of conscription cards conducted by the united states for world war I in 1918, we found the information of Henry Wong Wah, which was bound to Mabel Cochran in another family tree. According to the file, he was Born in Hawaii on September 19, 1984, and was A Born Citizen (A Natural Born Citizen). He once settled in Kauai in Hawaii from 1917 to 1918, at the time of registration, his residence was 1922 Liliha St in sandalwood, which might have been renovated in 1923, and it was sold by a homeowner named Debbie Wong in 2006.

Liliha St.1922

Liliha St, where he lived, was a gathering place of Chinese with a long history in Hawaii. In 1903, Sun Yat-sen gave a speech in the theater of Liliha Street to publicize revolutionary ideas and spread revolutionary seeds among overseas Chinese.

Back to Henry Wong Wah, the same conscription card showed that his occupation was a businessman, and he operated his own grocery store. He applied for military service exemption in the conscription registration information, the reason is that he has a wife and two young brothers to take care.

As mentioned earlier, Henry Wong Wah first registered his marriage in Mabel in 1921, however, in the records of 181819, he already had a wife… this may be another exciting story, but we will not start it first.

Strangely, Henry Wong Wah, as a born American citizen, only appeared once in all kinds of Retrieved American Archives and disappeared, only an old Hawaiian newspaper report on retired soldiers in National Guard of the United States mentioned that he and others had not signed the federal oath.

Generally speaking, the biggest possibility of this situation is that he has more than one name. For example, he also has different variants in official registration, such as Henry Wong, Wong Wah, Wah Wong, Wong XXX Wah, etc, we have conducted a variety of hybrid fuzzy matching searches, and the results obtained are either that the name cannot be completely matched, that is, the age cannot be completely matched, or that the experience is completely inconsistent.

Until we found a man named Henry Ah Wah Wong in Kauai, Hawaii. The name existed in a family tree of the Wong family in Hawaii, but it did not exist in the official archives, this also means that Henry Ah Wah Wong is not a formal name. Through the analysis of his family members, we finally restored him to a person named Henry Awa Wong, whose experience was highly coincident with Mabel’s ex-husband Henry Wong Wah.

By comparing files, first of all, Awa Wong and Wong Wah both came from kauai island. The former studied in kauai island from 1917 to 1918, started a business in honolulu lu lu in 1919, and opened a Five-and-Dime Store, in fact, it is a grocery store. The latter lived in Kauai Island from 1917 to 1918. At the same time, his conscription card showed that he was a businessman, specifically making Home Variety Store, which was actually a grocery Store, which was consistent in identity.

The second is the convergence of birthdays. The former was born on October 19, 1894, while the latter was born on September 19, 1894.

Third, both were born in Hawaii.

The fourth is the family situation. The recruitment card of the latter shows that he already had a wife in 1918and had two young brothers. According to the former’s census information in 1929, the two younger brothers Robert and Charles who lived with him were 9 years old and 13 years old in 1918. his eldest daughter was born in 191919. Plus the highly consistent names, it is hard to deny that these two people are not the same person…..

This Henry Awa Wong is not a silent and nameless person, even very famous. His name is Huang Shihua, a native of Gudu, Zhongshan, Guangdong. Let’s simply list his title: the mayor of Honolulu Huabu, the chairman of the Chinese club, the chairman of the Chinese Federation, and the chairman of the Chinese merchants association. He also served as the chairman of the Mauna Hua cemetery in Hawaii, the chairman of Moana Huang Jiangxia Tang (1950), the vice chairman of the Chinese Buddhist Association, vice chairman of Hawaii zhigongtang, director of Zhongshan Guild Hall and so on. At the same time, he is also an outstanding entrepreneur with restaurants, banks and so on under his name.

We didn’t dare to recognize each other with such a big background. After all, the story we are exploring is very likely to be a past that can’t be seen. We really want to shout that if there are similarities, it is purely a coincidence.

However, let’s take a look at the interesting aspect of Huang Shihua’s experience. He obviously had a marriage before marrying the woman Xiu-Yun Wang who finally accompanied him through his life, according to the information of the census in 1929, Huang Shihua was 18 years old at this time and had not married Huang Shihua. However, Huang Shihua already had four children at this time, Miu Liu at the age of 10, Guo Xiong at the age of 7, 5-year-old Guoqiang and 3-year-old Miu Ung. This means that Huang Shihua not only has a wife in Hawaii, but his wife gave birth to four children for him, but he did not leave any trace.

Let’s go back and talk about some conspiracy theories about Mabel. For example, in previous census records, the head of the household was Mabel, and she didn’t work for more than ten years during the settlement of Newark. You should know that she still pulled four children; when she knew Henry’s surname was Wong, both she and Henry’s children chose to register as Wah. After Henry left her, she insisted on changing her and Jifu’s children back to Wong. And after Mabel moved to New Jersey in the 1930 s, his main life experience was in one state, while her ex-husband Henry’s hometown Hawaii was never within her consideration. Maybe she couldn’t, maybe she didn’t want, maybe Wang can’t see Wang.

Well, at the end of the day, we returned to the point. Since we have confirmed that Isaiah Wang has no Chinese lineage at all, is it necessary for us to insist on translating Wong into Wang? I think there is, as the old saying goes, whether to change the name or not, and the inheritance of surnames is an important part of Chinese culture. We should respect the facts, others and ourselves.