Resources:
- Alien Files (“A-Files”) at the National Archives at San Francisco
- Alien Files (A-Files) at the National Archives at Kansas City
- Case File Index for Early Immigrants to and from San Francisco and Hawaii
- Chinese American History Websites related to the history of Chinese in North America. Curated by John Jung
- Chinese American Inclusion/Exclusion New York Historical Society exhibition – will be in Portland, Oregon in January 28 to May 1, 2016, Oregon Historical Society, http://www.ohs.org
- Chinese Immigration and the Chinese in the U. S.
- Frederick Bee History Project by Anthony Oertel (Frederick A. Bee was a witness at habeas corpus cases for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco, March 22, 1882-June 16, 1887)
- Index of women detained by Custom Officials Habeas Corpus Cases of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco for the period from March, 1882 to March, 1892.
- Records of women detained by Custom Officials (Update by Anthony Oertel.)
- New York Chinese Exclusion Index – available on Ancestry.com
- No Place Project by Tim Greyhavens
- Portland Oregon-born Detainees
- Wing Luke Museum
Blogs:
The Chinese at the 1909 A-Y-P Exposition
I created this blog in 2009 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition in Seattle, Washington. The blog is about the Chinese workers and promoters of AYPE, the visiting dignitaries and their families, the local and out-of-town Chinese who attended the fair, China Day and its parade and dragon, the Chinese acrobats, the Chinese Village, and many of the Chinese who were a part of the AYPE. If you have an ancestor who attended the fair, or if you have stories, artifacts or photos you would like to share, it would be fun to hear from you at THackettNicola@gmail.com
Although the blog is no longer active, I will keep it on the internet since it has information about the Chinese in Seattle in 1909.
Chinese American Eyes,
Famous, forgotten, well-known, and obscure visual artists of Chinese descent in the United States by Alex Jay
The Blue, the Gray and the Chinese
American Civil War Participants of Chinese Descent by Alex Jay
Articles:
Chinese Exclusion Act Records: A Neglected Genealogical Source
“6 Portlanders’ family stories of exclusion for being Chinese,” by Amy Wang, The Oregonian/ OregonLive , 26 February 2016.
Send me your suggestions for links to Chinese Exclusion Act case files resources.
THackettNicola@gmail.com
Books:
Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon (Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies) Marie Rose Wong University of Washington Press, 2004
