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• A Panoramic View of the Angel Island Immigration Station - 1915

• Ancestry.com - California, Naturalization Records, 1887-1991 $

  Original source: Selected Naturalization Records. The National Archives at Riverside, California, USA. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Ancestry.com - San Francisco, California, U.S., Chinese Arriving Passenger Arrivals and Disposition, 1903-1947 $

  Original source: Lists of Chinese Applying for Admission to the United States through the Port of San Francisco, California, compiled 07/07/1903-01/07/1947; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1476, 27 rolls. ARC Identifier 4482916); Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Record Group 85; National Archives, Washington, D.C. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Ancestry.com - Search Immigration & Travel

  Passenger lists, citizenship, naturalization, and other immigration sources. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• 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.

• California Bound - Passenger lists for California 1848 - 1873 | by sfgenealogy.com

  This site contains passenger lists for ships and wagon trains traveling to California between 1848 and 1873. The lists are transcribed from microfilm of the New York Daily Times, the New York Herald, the New Orleans Picayune, the Panama Star, the Panama Herald, and the Boston Daily Evening Transcript.

• Chinese Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Acts - 1866

• 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.

• Chinese in California, 1850-1925

  A topical approach to the material presented in the Chinese in California digital archive.

• Findmypast - California Northern District Naturalizations 1850-1989 $

• Findmypast - United States, California Immigration Office Special Inquiry Records $

• Fold3 - Naturalization Records $

  Fold3 is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. The focus of Fold3 is to be a comprehensive collection of U.S. Military records. Some areas of Fold3 are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription.

  • Naturalizations - CA Southern

    Original source: NARA M1524. Naturalization Petitions for the Southern District Of California, 1887-1940.

• Maritime Heritage Project

  The Maritime Heritage Project, started in 1997, is a free research tool for those seeking history of passengers, ships, captains, merchants and merchandise sailing into California during the mid-to-late 1800s.

• Passenger Lists New York Daily Times Published Passenger Lists New York City to California via Central America 1851 - 1856

  Passenger lists published in the New York Daily Times between in 1850s. Steamers bound for California via Isthmus for overland journey to connect with California bound steamers. Connecting steamer to California identified, if possible. (1851 - 1856).

• SAMPUBCO, California Naturalization Indexes, Probates

  Indexes for: Wills and Heirs, Surrogate's Records / Probate / Estate Files, Guardianships, Naturalizations, Miscellaneous Orders and Decrees, Letters of Administration, Letters Testamentary, Petitions for Administration, Proofs of Wills, Cemetery Burials, Renunications, Biographies. You can order copies of the original source documents for a small fee. This service pertains only to entries found in the indexes on this web site.