A resource for researching Chinese genealogy. Usable in English. Includes Chinese exclusion records, immigration case files, Identity certificates, zupus 族谱 and jiapu 家谱 (family tree books), alien case files, passenger lists, naturalization records, burial records, death records, association records and directories, financial records, military records, indices, and newspapers: Sai Gai Yat Po = Shijie Ribao = The Chinese World Newspaper 世界日報 (1909-1923) and Chinese Digest (1935-1936). The database has a focus on émigrés from Guangdong and Fujian province. Good resource for finding anglicized names.
Lists of Chinese passengers arriving at Seattle (Port Townsend), 1882-1916 [microform]
Printed guide: none
Online contents guide
Passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco [microform]
Printed guide: none
Register of citizen (1943-1947) and alien (1936-1949) arrivals by aircraft at San Francisco, California [microform].
Printed guide: none
Register of Chinese laborers departing from and returning to the United States under Act of May 6, 1882 [microform]
Lists of Chinese passengers arriving at San Francisco, CA, 1888-1914 [microform]
Printed guide: none
Passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco from insular possessions, 1907-1911 [microform]
Case files of Chinese immigrants, Portland, Oregon, 1890-1914, INS, Portland, Oregon [microform]
Index to passenger arrivals at San Diego, California, ca. 1904-ca. 1952 [microform].
Passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Pedro/Wilmington/Los Angeles, California, June 29, 1907-June 30, 1948 [microform]
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Passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco from Honolulu, 1902-1907 [microform]
Passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco, CA, December 1, 1954--February 1, 1957 [microform]
Passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco from insular possessions, 1907-1911 [microform]
Customs passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco, CA, January 3, 1903-April 1, 1918 [microform]
History Vault: Immigration: Records of the INS, 1880-1930
Covers the central correspondence files of the Bureau of Immigration, the predecessor of the INS. This massive file records the administration of virtually every immigration issue. Covered topics are Asian immigration and exclusion, 1906-1913 and 1898-1941; Mexican immigration, 1906-1930; Ellis Island, 1900-1933; European Investigations, 1898-1936; Prostitution and White Slavery, 1902-1933; Suppression of Aliens: Voices from Ellis Island.
Census data with maps for small areas of New York City, 1910-1960 [microform]
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms HA730.N5 C467
"This unique collection includes all of the census data taken for New York City on the tract level (1910-1960), health area (from 1930-1960) and city block levels (from 1940-1960) of geography. The census for each level is accompanied by a map specifying and illustrating each small area's boundaries. Every census series includes the questionnaire that was used to derive the data and maps detailing the small area enumerated in the tables that follow, along with any explanatory text accompanying the original tables."
Records of the American Council for Nationalities Service, 1921-1971 [microform]
Printed guide: Firestone Microforms JV6403 .R436
"The four successive organizations whose records make up this collection—the Foreign Language Information Service, the Common Council for American Unity, the American Federation of International Institutes, and the American Council for Nationalities Service—were among the most prominent groups involved in the orientation of immigrants to American society in the 20th century."
Border and Migration Studies Online -- includes primary sources related to the U.S.-Mexico border