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Benson, Donna D. (ed.), 1870 Census, Tulare County, California: Alphabetized, Minimal Listing With an Enumeration of the Chinese Population (Visalis, CA: Sequoia Genealogical Society, 1982).

Chao, Sheau-yueh J., In Search of Your Asian Roots: Genealogical Resources on Chinese Surnames (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1998-2000).

Crowe, Elizabeth Powell, Genealogy On-line: Researching Your Roots (New York: Windcrest/McGraw-Hill, 1995).

Doane, Gilbert Harry, Searching For Your Ancestors: The How and Why of Genealogy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1960).

Eakle, Arlene and Cerny, Johni (eds), The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing Co., 1984).

Eichholz, Alice, Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County & Town Sources revised edition (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing Co., 1992).

Greenwood, Val D., The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1974).

Hofmann, William J., Life Writing, A Guide to Family Journals and Personal Memoirs (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982).

Lichtman, Allan J., Your Family History: How to Use Oral History, Personal Family Archives, and Public Documents to Discover Your Heritage (New York: Vintage Books, 1978).

Low, Jeanie W. C., China Connection: Finding Ancestral Roots for Chinese in America 2nd edn (San Francisco: J.W.C. Low, 1994).

Malott, Judith A. (ed.), Case Files of Chinese Immigrants, 1900-1923, From District No. 4 (Philadelphia) of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, National Archives Microfilm Publications (Washington: National Archives Trust Fund board, National Archives and Records Services, 1982).

Mills, William Stowell, Foundations of Genealogy, With Suggestions on the Art of Preparing Records of Ancestry, (New York: Monograph Publishing Co., 1899).

Parker, Nathan C., Personal Name Index to the 1856 City Directories of California (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1980).

Penner, Lisa (ed.), The Chinese in Astoria, Oregon, 1870-1880: A Look at Local Newspaper Articles, the Census, and Other Related Materials (Astoria, OR: L. Penner, 1990).

Portnov, Vincent, United States Guide to Family Records: Where and How to Write for Family Records in the U.S. Outlying Areas (Chicago: Lin-Port House, 1977).

Reed, Robert D., How and Where to Research Your Ethnic-American Cultural Heritage: Chinese Americans (Saratoga, CA: Reed, 1979).

Sanders, Patricia, Searching in California: A Reference Guide to Public and Private Records (Costa Mesa, CA: ISC Publications, 1982).

Smith, Jessie Carney (ed.), Ethnic Genealogy: A Research Guide (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983).

Sperry, Kip, A Survey American Genealogy Periodicals and Periodical Indexes (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1978).

Stiles, Henry Reed, A Hand-Book of Practical Suggestion, For the Use of Students in Genealogy (Albany, NY: J. Munsell's Sons, 1899).

Tepper, Michael, American Passenger Arrival Records: A Guide to the Records of Immigrants Arriving at American Ports by Sail and Stream (Baltimore: Genealogy Pub. Co., 1993).

United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, List of Chinese Passengers Arriving at San Francisco, 1882-1914, National Archives Microfilm Publications (Washington, DC: National Archives, National Archives and Records Administration, 1987).

United States National Archives and Records Service, Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archive (Washington, DC: Published for National Archives and Records Service by the National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1983)

Westin, Jeane, Finding Your Roots: How Every American Can Trace His Ancestors at Home and Abroad (Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher, 1977).

Willis, Arthur James, Genealogy For Beginners (London: E. Benn, 1955).

Cool Site of the Month for Genealogists
http://www.csn.net/~mafinlay/cgs-cool.htm

Everton's Genealogical Helper Magazine
http://www.everton.com/

FamilyHistory.com Online Genealogical Community
http://www.familyhistory.com/

The Genealogical Home Page
http://www.genhomepage.com/

Gensite
http://www.genealogy.org/

Getting Started in Genealogy and Family History
(UK & Ireland Genealogy)
http://www.genuki.org.uk/gs/

Franking, Mae M., Mae Franking's My Chinese Marriage (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991).

Fong-Torres, Ben, The Rice Room: Growing Up Chinese American--From Number Two Son to Rock N' Roll (New York: Hyperion, 1994).

Hynes, Katie (ed.), My Way: The Story of Grace Wong Chow as Told to Eric Larson (Sunset Beach: Continental Biographies, 1983).

Joe, Jeanne, Ying-Ying: Pieces of a Childhood (San Francisco: East/West Publishing Company, 1982).

Larson, Louise Leung, Sweet Bamboo: Saga of a Chinese American Family (Los Angeles, Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, 1989).

Lee, Moonbeam Tong, Growing Up in Chinatown: The Life and Work of Edward Lee (The United States of America: Fong Brothers Printing, Inc., 1987).

Lin, Alice Murong Pu, Grandmother Had No Name (San Francisco: China Books & Periodicals, 1988).

Louie, Emma Woo, "Family History for the Chinese Americans," Gum Saan Journal (June 1989), pp. 1-16.

Lowell, Waverly B., "Historical Resources for Chinese Americans at the National Archives, Regional Archives System," Gum Saan Journal (June 1995).

McCunn, Ruthanne Lum, Chinese American Portraits: Personal Histories 1828-1988 (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1988).

Molnar, Joe, Sherman: A Chinese American Child Tells His Story (New York: Franklin Watts, 1973).

Say, Allen, El Chino (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990).

See, Lisa, On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of a Chinese-American Family (New York: Saint Martin Press, 1995).

Asian American Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, and Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, Linking Our Lives: Chinese American Women of Los Angeles (Los Angeles: Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, 1984).

Asian American Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, and Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, Origins & Destination: 41 Essays on Chinese America (Los Angeles: Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, 1984).

Bingham, Edwin R, "The Saga of the Los Angeles Chinese," Master's thesis, Occidental College, 1942.

Chen, Wen-Hui Chung, "Changing Socio-Cultural Patterns of the Chinese in Los Angeles," Dissertation, University of Southern California, 1952.

Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, Gum Saan Journal, 1977-present.

Hayes, Emmett R., "The Chinese Congregational Church," Unpublished manuscript, 1984.

Lee, Mabel Sam, The Recreational Interests and Participation of a Selected Group of Chinese Boys and Girls in Los Angeles, California, Master's thesis, University of Southern California, 1939.

Liu, Garding, Inside Los Angeles Chinatown (Los Angeles, 1948).

McDannold, Thomas Allen, Development of the Los Angeles Chinatown: 1850-1970, Master's thesis, California State University, Northridge, 1973.

Wu, Shan John S., Merchandising Chinese Products on the Los Angeles Market, M.B.A. thesis, University of Southern California, 1934.

Chinn, Thomas W., Lai, H. Mark, and Choy, Philip P., History of the Chinese in California: A Syllabus (San Francisco: Chinese Historical Society of America, 1969).

Chiu, Ping, Chinese Labor in California (Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1967).

Hom, Marlon K., Songs of Gold Mountain (Berkeley: U.C. Press, 1987).

Saxton, Alexander P., The Indispensable Enemy: A Study of Anti-Chinese Movement in California (Berkeley: U.C. Press, 1971).

Barth, Gunther, Bitter Strength, A History of the Chinese in the United States (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964.)

----, The Challenge of the American Dream: The Chinese in the United States (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1971).

Chan, Sucheng, This Bitter Sweet Soil, The Chinese in Agriculture, 1860-1910 (Berkeley: U.C. Press, 1983).

Chen, Jack, The Chinese of America (New York: Harper & Row, 1980).

Cheng, Lucie and Bonacich, Edna (eds), Labor Migration Under Capitalism (Berkeley: U.C. Press, 1984).

----, Chinese Experiences in America (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1986).

Coolidge, Mary, Chinese Immigration (New York, 1909).

Fessler, Loren W. (ed.), Chinese in America: Stereotyped Past, Changing Present (New York: Vantage Press, 1983).

Hsu, Francis L. K., Americans & Chinese, Passage to Differences 3rd edn (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985.)

Kung, Shien-woo, Chinese in American Life, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1962.)

Larson, Jane Walden, The Social Environment of a Chinese American Family as Explored Through Personal Documents, B.A. thesis, Reed College, 1967.

Lee, Dai-Ming, Commentary on the Drumright Report (San Francisco: The Chinese World, Ltd., 1955).

Lee, Rose Hum, The Chinese in the United States of America (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1960).

Liu, Pei Chi, A History of the Chinese in the United States of America 2 vols (Taipei: Li-Min Cultural Publishing Co., 1976, 1981).

Lyman, Stanford M., Chinese Americans (New York: Random House, 1974).

Mark, Diane Mei Lin and Chih, Ginger, A Placed Called Chinese America (Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1982).

Miller, Stuart C., The Unwelcome Immigrant, The American Images of the Chinese, 1785-1882 (Berkeley: U.C. Press, 1969).

Sung, Betty Lee, The Story of the Chinese in America (New York: Collier Books, 1967).

Takaki, Ronald, Journey to Gold Mountain: The Chinese in 19th Century America (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1994).

Tong, Benson, The Chinese Americans (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000).

Tsai, Shih-shan Henry, China and the Overseas Chinese in the United States, 1868-1911 (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1983).

Yung, Judy, Chinese Women of America, A Pictorial History (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986).

----, The Asian in North America (Santa Barbara: ABC, 1977).

Endo, Russell, Sue, Stanley, and Wagner Nathaniel N. (eds), Asian-Americans: Social and Psychological Perspectives (Science and Behavior Books, Inc., 1980).

Kim, Elaine H., Asian American Literature, An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982).

Kitano, Harry H. L. and Daniels, Robert, Asian Americans, Emerging Minorties (New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1988).

Knoll, Tricia, Becoming Americans (Portland: Coast to Coast Books, 1982).

Chan,David R., "Los Angeles and the Chinese," Chinese New Year Book (1975), pp. 19-24.

Cheng, Lucie, Liu, Yuzun, and Zheng, Dehua, "Chinese Emigration, the Sunning Railway and the Development of Toisan," Amerasia Journal 9:1 (1982), pp. 59-74.

Cheng, Suellen, and Kwok, Munson, "The Golden Years of the Los Angeles Chinatown: The Beginning," The Golden Years, 1938-1988, ed. Ella Yee Quan (Los Angeles, 1988).

Chew, Ng Poon, "The Chinese in Los Angeles," Land of Sunshine (October 1894), pp. 102-103.

Chu, Limin, "China in the Overland Monthly: The Life of the Chinese in America," Asian Culture Quarterly 5:3 (Autumn 1977), pp. 16-33.

Chu, Yung-Deh Richard, "Chinese Secret Societies in America: A Historical Survey," Asian Profile 3:1 (August 1973), pp. 21-37.

Dorland, C.P., "Chinese Massacre at Los Angeles in 1871," Historical Society of Southern California Annual Publication (1894), pp. 22-27.

De Falla, Paul M., "Lantern in the Western Sky," Historical Society of Southern California Annual Publication (March 1960), pp. 22-27, and (June 1960), pp. 161-185.

Hayes, Emmett R., "The Chinese Congregational Church," Unpublished manuscript, 1984.

Hirata, Lucie Cheng, "Chinese Immigrant Women in Nineteen-Century California," Women of America, ed. C. R. Berkin and M. B. Norton (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1979), pp. 223-244.

Hong, Lawrence K., "Documentation, Recent Immigration in the Chinese American Community: Issues of Adaptation and Impacts," International Migration Review 10:4 (Winter 1976), pp. 509-514.

Lai, Him Mark, "Historical Development of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association/Huigan System," Chinese America: History and Perspectives, 1987 (San Francisco: Chinese Historical Society of America, 1987), pp. 13-51.

Light, Ivan, "Protest of Work—Dilemmas of the Tourist Industry in American Chinatown," The American Journal of Sociology 80:6 (May 1975), pp. 1342-1368.

----, "Labor Force Participation of Chinese Immigrant Wives," Industrial Relations 26(3)(Fall 1987), pp. 296-303.

Mason, William, "The Chinese in Los Angeles," Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Museum Alliance Quarterly 6:2, pp. 15-20.

McDannold, Thomas W., "Wah Fow South of Gum Shan: The Los Angeles Chinatown," The China Geographer 4 (Spring 1976), pp. 33-42.

----, "The New China City," The Arrowhead Magazine (September 1940), pp. 9-13.

Ong, Paul, "An Ethnic Trade: The Chinese Laundries in Early California," Journal of Ethnic Studies 8(4)(1981), pp. 95-112.

Sterry, Nora, "Housing Conditions in Chinatown Los Angeles," Journal of Applied Sociology VII, (Nov.-Dec. 1922), pp. 70-75.

Wong, Charles Choy, "Black and Chinese Grocery Stores in Los Angeles' Black Ghetto," 5:4 (January 1977), pp. 439-464.

Yuen, T. Foo, "Education of a Chinese Physician," Land of Sunshine 3:6 (November 1895), pp. 298-300.

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