AU Yip: Finding alternate entries into Hawaii
Reading AU Yip's file teaches us about native-born women losing their citizenship, Chinese women being resourceful about returning to the US, and NARA Case file #s.
The embellished tale of Henry Stimper’s parrot
I ran across a story in the newspaper that humorously illustrates how family stories can adapt and change. The story isn't humorous per se; it's a rather morbid tale about a pet parrot killing chickens in a coop. However, a later retelling made me laugh outright. The bones of the...
Why was Sam Chong interrogated about the restaurant in his store?
In my great-grandmother's Chinese Exclusion Case File is an interview between an immigration official and my great-grandfather SAM Chong. This was in 1918, when the Chinese Exclusion Era was in full force. The only reason GOO Tan Choy, my great-grandmother, was not excluded from entering the Territory of Hawaii as...