Although he and Chang Ch'eng-ho had an old set of records on hand, it only described briefly their single line, and even the descendants of the brothers of their grand-father were not recorded, not to mention those of Fang-kao, Fang-shen, Fang-yuan, and Fang-ta from six generations back.
雖然他和張澄河手上都有一份舊家譜，然而其中僅略述己房己系單脈世系，連祖父兄弟的後輩都沒有記錄，更不用說是六世之前方高、方深、方遠、方大四兄弟下的其他親族了。