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A Brief History of Chinese Immigration to America

Ancestry.com - Portland, Oregon, U.S., Chinese Immigrant Landing Records and Applications for Admission, 1882-1903 $

Original source: Department of Labor, Bureau of Immigration. Immigration and Naturalization Service Case Files of Chinese Immigrants, Portland, Oregon, 1890-1914; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1638, 15 rolls.); Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Record Group 85; National Archives, Washington, D.C. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - San Francisco, California, U.S., Chinese Arriving Passenger Arrivals and Disposition, 1903-1947 $

Original source: Lists of Chinese Applying for Admission to the United States through the Port of San Francisco, California, compiled 07/07/1903-01/07/1947; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1476, 27 rolls. ARC Identifier 4482916); Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Record Group 85; National Archives, Washington, D.C. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - Vancouver, British Columbia, Manifests of Chinese Arrivals, 1906-1912, 1929-1941 $

Original source: Passenger Lists of Chinese Arrivals at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, January 1906-June 1912; (National Archives Microfilm Publication A3414, 2 rolls); Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Record Group 85; National Archives, Washington, D.C. Lists of Chinese Passengers Arriving at Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, June 1929–January 1941 (National Archives Microfilm Publication A3446, 10 rolls). Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Record Group 85. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

From the Harvard University Library Open Collections Program.

Chinese Exclusion Act Case Files

The purpose of this blog is to showcase the variety of information found in the Chinese Exclusion Act case files and to give guidance on how to locate information in the files. The focus is the files at the National Archives-Seattle from Record Group 85 pertaining to Seattle, Port Townsend, and Sumas, Washington; and Portland, Oregon. Although these files are located in Seattle, the subject of the file may have lived anywhere in the United States.

Chinese Exclusion Act Records at the National Archives at Seattle

Chinese Immigration

From the National Archives and Records Administration.

Chinese Immigration Records

A guide from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

Chinese Immigration to San Francisco - 1874

From the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco.

Chinese Immigration to the United States, 1884-1944 - A Digital Archive

This website provides an overview of the history and offers an online, searchable index to many of the nearly 200,000

Chinese Immigration to the United States, 1884-1944

Chinese Immigration to the United States, 1884-1944 - A Digital Archive

Over 250,000 people who entered the United States through San Francisco or Honolulu left records of their entry. These

Chinese in Guyana: Their Roots

History of Chinese indentured immigrants in British Guiana between 1853 and 1879 and their descendants.

Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project

Between 1865 and 1869, thousands of Chinese migrants toiled at a grueling pace and in perilous working conditions to help construct America

Chinese-American Contribution to Transcontinental Railroad

From the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum.

Moving Here - 200 Years of Migration to England

Online searchable database of digitized photographs, maps, objects, documents and audio items recording migration experiences of the past 200 years.

National Archives - Chinese Immigration and the Chinese in the United States

From the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

Research Guide - Chinese Immigrants and Chinese-Australians in New South Wales

From the National Archives of Australia.

Stanford Magazine - Angel Island: Breaking the Silence

By Diane Rogers.