Angel Island:Immigrant Gateway to America

[jing]

If folks take the ferry to the U.S. Immigration Station at Angel Island, CA. on Saturday, July 31, 2010 for the centennial celebration, among presenters will be authors, Erika Lee and Judy Yung who will give a talk and slide show on their new book "Angel Island:Immigrant Gateway to America." Both authors are historians and university professors on the subject of the Chinese American immigrant experience.

For more information on other activities and programs on Angel Island for the July 31st: www.aiisf.org

[baksha]

The book : Angel Island:Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee & Judy Yung. New York: Oxford University Press, c2010. ISBN 978-0-19-973408-5/ This is an excellent book. Both Erika and Judy are recognized historians and have written countless books. This book covers the period 1910-1940 on the various ethnic immigrants who were housed at at the U.S. Immigration Station at Angel Island, California. A large majority of whom were Chinese.

If visiting San Francisco, don't miss a visit to the U.S. Immigration Station on Angel Island. Reached only by ferry.

baksha

[baksha]

If you are interested in accessing your parents' Angel Island or other entry port documents and /or naturalization, there are English translations. See the Paper Trail link on this forum regarding Access to immigration and naturalization case files. For San Francisco entries: email [e-mail]. You need the entry name and/or whether the relative became a U.S. naturalized citizen.
Good luck.
Baksha

[Henry]

Dear Colleagues,

Database for Chinese immigrants who entered San Francisco, CA and Honolulu, HI, 1881-1955 is at :

casefiles.berkeley.edu/


University of California at Berkeley, Business and Economic Research with the collaboration with the National Archives and Records Administration.


Henry

[baksha]

Hi All,
Thanks Henry for sharing the SF and Honolulu database which would list the person's name, ship, and date of arrival at either port during that period.

I'd like to add a few observations to the database Henry references at : casefiles.berkeley.edu/

1) You must know the entry name your immigrant relative entered under. In other words, if they later adopted an American name, that name will not be in the database.

2) There may be a name typos as the database was entered by hand. I finally found a relative that I knew was at the National Archives.SF. and his name was a typo on the database. I would recommend that you contact an archivist at NARA.SF. if you experience difficulties.

3) If your relative became a U.S. naturalized citizen from 1940 onwards, their name will not appear in the database. Their Alien Registration Case Files (A-Files) may be requested through a FOIA (Form G639) www.uscis.gov. I wrote about accessing A-File (immigration & naturalization) request on this site.

baksha