Online Resources:
- Alien Files (“A-Files”) at the National Archives at San Francisco & Kansas City
- Chinese American GI Project – To honor up to 20,000 Chinese American men and women served during WW II
- 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 Exclusion Act case files at National Archives regional facilities
- Chinese Exclusion Act case files for Port Townsend, WA
- Chinese Immigration and the Chinese in the U. S.
- Chinese North American History Network – a directory of Chinese History Museums and Historical Societies across North America
- Chinese North American History Network Facebook Page – a site to promote the content of the Chinese museums in North America
- 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.)
- Portland Oregon-born Detainees
- The Geary Act Project The mission of the Geary Act Project is to gather Certificates of Residence, the “yellow card” required of all Chinese in America by order of the 1892 Geary Act.
- Marisa Louie Lee – Genealogical & Historical Research
- No Place Project by Tim Greyhavens
- Past Presence – Linda Yip Genealogy – specializing in Canadian and Chinese genealogy
- Wing Luke Museum – Stories, culture, and art of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander people
Books:
Coming Home in Gold Brocade: Chinese in Early Northwest America by Bennet Bronson & Chuimei Ho
Ghosts of Gold Mountain by Gordon H. Chang
Chinese in Washington State by Art & Doug Chin
Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming by Ava Chin
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: a memoir by Curtis Chin
The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky by Mark T. Johnson
Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton by John Jung
At America’s Gates by Erika Lee
Voices from the Railroad: Stories by descendants of Chinese railroad workers edited by Sue Lee & Connie Young Yu
A Chinaman’s Chance by Eric Liu
The Lucky Ones by Mae Ngai
Chinese in Washington: The Legacy of the Chinese Exclusion Act by Trish Hackett Nicola
Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans by Jean Pfaelzer
Gum Moon by Jeffrey L. Staley
Gold Country’s Last Chinatown: Marysville, California by Lawrence Tom & Brian Tom
Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon by Marie Rose Wong
Websites/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. 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.
“I think I am going to fly : Chinese Pilots Trained in Portland During the 1930s,” Oregon Historical Quarterly, 122:4 (Winter 2021), 532-545.
“Rediscovering Toy Kee’s True Son: Chinese Immigration and Federal Bureaucracy Documented in Chinese Exclusion Act Case Files,” Oregon Historical Quarterly, 122:4 (Winter 2021), 442-455.
“Felix W. McGettrick and the Chinese Exclusion Act,” Irish Lives Remembered, Spring 2020, 88-91.
Send me your suggestions for links to Chinese Exclusion Act case files resources.
THackettNicola@gmail.com
I am trying to hunt down my Grandfather’s files and his family. On ancestry.com it says he is in the Honolulu files. Might you be able to help guide me to a resources where I can get my hands on his actual files and our other family members?
Write to the National Archives at San Bruno at https://www.archives.gov/contact. The Archives is closed because of COVID-19 but get on their waiting list.
Ask the experts at Chinese American Family History at chineseamericanfamilyhistory@groups.io. They are very knowledgeable and helpful. See https://chsa.org/about_chsa/
Good luck!
Trish
Thank you for your response and help. Greatly appreciated!!!!!!
Glad to help. Good luck on your search. Let me know what you discover.
Trish