Thanks to everyone who has helped me with this site
- Big ups to my cousin and "niece" who had the initial idea to create a family tree. I took their idea, and went a little nuts, but hey...we all have to start somewhere.
- Thanks to my brother who gave me software programs I needed to create the family tree and website.
- Thanks to my parents for not being Chinese illiterate. They have spent hours and hours gathering information about our family tree and helping my Chinese illiterate self translate those gapou.
- Big thanks to Wolfgang Kratzer and P.W. Kwan for all their generous help throughout the years. I first emailed Wolfgang after reading his post about his wife's gapou on a Chinese genealogy message board. He was kind enough to share his family's gapou with me.
- Thanks to Alan Kwan and his dad for giving me permission to post their family's gapou on this site.
- Thanks to Kevin Lee, the webmaster at Siyi Genealogy, for helping me when I have questions about Chinese culture and translating the gapou.
- Thanks to Professor Rhoads, one of my former Asian Studies professor at the University of Texas, who helped translate some of the phrases in the gapou. Hook'em Horns.
- Thanks to all the other webmasters who gave me permission to post their Kwan related information on this site.
- Thanks to everyone who has visited the site, left messages in the forum, or emailed me. It would be kinda heart-breaking
if no one ever visited the site.
- Thanks to Apple Computers for supplying a free Chinese input method with the system software
- Finally thanks to Kwan Siu-Zi (Guan Zhao-Zhi) 關肇治, the great ancestor of all Kwans in Gwongdung (Guangdong) 廣東, for being brave enough to speak his mind to the emperor, and getting exiled to Gwongdung (Guangdong) 廣東