Via the Gwulo site I have been looking into two sites about Macanese culture. (I found links from the page about searching existing resources for information about people who lived in Hong Kong.)
One is Macanese Families which requires registration before you can access it. This is a comprehensive site about Macau managed by Henry d’Assumpção and centred around Dr Jorge Forjaz’ three-volume genealogy of Macanese families, Famílias Macaenses, with over 42,000 names which can be searched on the website. The site includes over a 1,000 photos, many with detailed identification. It’s a very rich site, and a privilege to be able to use. It has enabled me to identify deep details about the Macanese part of my family and to appreciate the interconnectedness with many other families back to the mid eighteenth century. Certainly it’s one of the most productive discoveries so far.
The other site is Far East Currents, coordinated by Roy Eric Xavier PhD of U.C. Berkeley. He is Director of The Portuguese and Macanese Studies Project. (We might be distantly related!) Far East Currents is packed with high value information which will help locate personal family information into a broader context. It’s also organised along solid and open principles of sharing information.
Together these are two brilliant sources of information.