{"id":6453,"date":"2025-07-08T13:11:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T04:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/?p=6453"},"modified":"2026-04-11T01:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:37:39","slug":"faq-can-the-waseda-university-history-museum-help-me-research-my-family-members-or-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/news-en\/2025\/07\/08\/6453\/","title":{"rendered":"[FAQ] Can you help me research my family history?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The survey on your family records or enrollment record is very interesting. However, we cannot conduct any research on behalf of you for our regulations. The following is a brief guide to the survey methods.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, it is necessary to investigate the enrollment period, faculty, etc. from the &#8220;Alumni Association List.&#8221; Here are some materials from the <a href=\"https:\/\/ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp\/en\">National Diet Library&#8217;s collection<\/a> that can be viewed online without logging in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.ndl.go.jp\/pid\/910566\">\u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u5927\u5b66\u6821\u53cb\u4f1a\u300e\u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u5927\u5b66\u6821\u53cb\u4f1a\u4f1a\u54e1\u540d\u7c3f \u3000\u5927\u6b63\uff14\u5e74\uff11\uff11\u6708\u8abf\u300f<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.ndl.go.jp\/pid\/910567\">\u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u5927\u5b66\u6821\u53cb\u4f1a\u300e\u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u5927\u5b66\u6821\u53cb\u4f1a\u4f1a\u54e1\u540d\u7c3f \u3000\u5927\u6b63\uff11\uff14\u5e74\uff11\uff11\u6708\u8abf\u300f<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.ndl.go.jp\/pid\/1462439\">\u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u5927\u5b66\u6821\u53cb\u4f1a\u300e\u4f1a\u54e1\u540d\u7c3f \u662d\u548c2\u5e7411\u6708\u300f<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.ndl.go.jp\/pid\/1083557\">\u65e9\u7a3b\u7530\u5927\u5b78\u6821\u53cb\u6703\u300e\u6703\u54e1\u540d\u7c3f\u300f\uff081928\u5e74\uff3b\u662d\u548c3\uff3d\uff09<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.ndl.go.jp\/pid\/1083520\">\u65e9\u7a3b\u7530\u5927\u5b78\u6821\u53cb\u6703\u300e\u6703\u54e1\u540d\u7c3f\u7d22\u5f15 : \u3044\u308d\u306f\u5225\u300f\uff081928\u5e74\uff3b\u662d\u548c3\uff3d\uff09<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.ndl.go.jp\/pid\/1454832\">\u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u5927\u5b66\u6821\u53cb\u4f1a\u300e\u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u5927\u5b66\u6821\u53cb\u4f1a\u4f1a\u54e1\u540d\u7c3f [\u662d\u548c10\u5e74\u7528]\u300f<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.ndl.go.jp\/pid\/1028912\">\u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u7406\u5de5\u5b66\u4f1a\u300e\u4f1a\u54e1\u540d\u7c3f \u662d\u548c12\u5e7411\u6708\u8abf\u300f<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.ndl.go.jp\/pid\/1461894\/1\/\">\u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u5927\u5b66\u7d33\u58eb\u9332\u520a\u884c\u4f1a \u7de8\u300e\u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u5927\u5b66\u7d33\u58eb\u9332 \u662d\u548c15\u5e74\u7248\u300f<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To view the following materials on the web, you need to register an account and log in to NDL:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.ndl.go.jp\/pid\/9580678\">\u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u5927\u5b66\u6821\u53cb\u4f1a\u300e\u4f1a\u54e1\u540d\u7c3f \u662d\u548c33\u5e74\u300f<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.ndl.go.jp\/pid\/9580865\">\u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u5927\u5b66\u6821\u53cb\u4f1a\u300e\u4f1a\u54e1\u540d\u7c3f \u662d\u548c36\u5e74\u5ea6\u7248\u300f<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.ndl.go.jp\/pid\/9544635\">\u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u5927\u5b66\u6821\u53cb\u4f1a\u300e\u4f1a\u54e1\u540d\u7c3f \u5225\u518a(\u5b66\u79d1\u5e74\u5ea6\u5225)\u300f\uff081963\u5e74\uff09<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.ndl.go.jp\/pid\/11622692\">\u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u5927\u5b66\u6821\u53cb\u4f1a\u300e\u4f1a\u54e1\u540d\u7c3f \u662d\u548c40\u5e74\u5ea6\u7248\u300f<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The list of graduates of the Chinese Normal Department (\u6e05\u56fd\u7559\u5b66\u751f\u90e8, literally &#8216;Qing Dynasty International Students Department&#8217;, 1905-1910) is introduced in the following article:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"hiRNObgXPk\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/news-en\/2026\/04\/10\/7223\/\">[FAQ] Where is the list of graduates of the School for Chinese Students (\u6e05\u56fd\u7559\u5b66\u751f\u90e8)?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;[FAQ] Where is the list of graduates of the School for Chinese Students (\u6e05\u56fd\u7559\u5b66\u751f\u90e8)?&#8221; &#8212; \u6b74\u53f2\u9928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/news-en\/2026\/04\/10\/7223\/embed\/#?secret=tXDXDLlRVa#?secret=hiRNObgXPk\" data-secret=\"hiRNObgXPk\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Articles in the Waseda Gakuho magazine may occasionally include information about alumni activities. Please refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.waseda.jp\/archive\/subDB-top.html?arg={%22item_per_page%22:20,%22sortby%22:[%22%22,%22ASC%22],%22view%22:%22display-simple%22,%22subDB_id%22:%22117%22,%22advanced_search%22:false}&amp;lang=en\">&#8220;Waseda Gakuho Article Database&#8221;<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that the Waseda University History Museum is unable to determine whether these materials comprehensively cover all alumni or members.<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking to confirm a deceased person&#8217;s enrollment record, please consider using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/about\/work\/organizations\/academic-affairs-division\/certificate-of-enrolment\">the Enrollment Confirmation for Deceased Individuals service<\/a>. This service provides information such as the faculty attended at Waseda University, as well as the dates of admission and graduation.<\/p>\n<p>And we provide:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/en\/database\/\">Various databases for research<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/news\/2022\/11\/01\/4474\/\">first volume of &#8220;150 Years of History of Waseda University&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/en\/services\/use\/\">Instructions for Use<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survey methods for family records or enrollment records at Waseda University, including investigating enrollment period and faculty from the \u201cAlumni Association List.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[91,122,76],"class_list":["post-6453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-alumni-en","tag-service-en","tag-outreach-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7238,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions\/7238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}