ABOUT ME
Introduction
Grant Din has conducted genealogical research for over thirty-five years, consults on genealogical and nonprofit projects, and serves on the board of the California Genealogical Society. He served on the staff of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation for eight years, where he managed the Immigrant Voices website, which now has over 220 stories of West Coast immigrants from throughout the world.
Grant’s interest in genealogy started at a wedding reception in his youth, where a relative showed him a page from a family tree revealing that he is in the 36th generation of the Gong family (he’s also a 24th generation Owyang). His research has taken him throughout the U.S. and Asia to explore his family’s journeys.
Grant holds a Certificate in Genealogical Research from Boston University, an M.A. in Public Policy Analysis from Claremont Graduate University, and a B.A. in Sociology from Yale University. He has traveled throughout the U.S., China, and Japan for his research. Grant was part of the research team for The Six, a film about the Chinese who survived the Titanic, and he co-curated Taken From Their Families, an exhibit on Angel Island. He lives with his family in Oakland, California.