Ports of Entry » Angel Island, California

American Memory from the Library of Congress - A Panoramic Photogaph: Immigration station, Angel Island, Cal. 1915

Angel Island : Poetic Waves, Chinese Immigration History (tour, poems, photos, timeline, history)

Artistic multi-media web site on the Asian immigrant experience at Angel Island, California.

Angel Island Conservancy - United States Immigration Station (USIS)

The Ellis Island of the West in San Francisco.

Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation - San Francisco

The nonprofit partner of California State Parks and the National Park Service in the effort to preserve, restore and interpret the historic immigration station.

Angel Island: Guardian of the Western Gate

An online article by Valerie Natale about the history of the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay.

Angel Island: Immigrant Journeys of Chinese-Americans

An oral history of Chinese immigrant detainees.

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

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

Chinese Immigration to the United States, 1884-1944 - The Early Arrivals Records Search (EARS)

A Dataset From Case Files for Early Immigrants to San Francisco and Hawaii, Immigration and Naturalization Service Records at NARA's Pacific Region (San Bruno), SF RG 85.

FamilySearch Catalog

From the FamilySearch web site, an online catalog to the holdings of Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. Microfilm loans can be ordered and then sent to your local Family History Center.

One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse

Alternate search functions for many online databases. Includes tools for immigration, census, vital records, calendars, soundex, foreign alphabets, Jewish and Holocaust research.

San Francisco, California - Immigrant & Passenger Arrivals - Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service

Lists of microfilm roll numbers from the National Archives and Records Administration.

Stanford Magazine - Angel Island: Breaking the Silence

By Diane Rogers.

The Chinese in California, 1850-1925

From American Memory at the Library of Congress. The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other printed matter.