It was more than 200 years (1765) since the last correcting of the record, and in between had come the chaos of the late Ching era, Japanese occupation.
加之距前次修譜（一七六五年），已有二百多年斷層，其間經過清末動盪、日人據台… …，族人早已分散四處。對中國人而言，「聚親族」是件大功德，然而張福祿雖有心卻不知如何進行修譜工作。