Ancestry makes Chinese Exclusion Era records available

As part of a philanthropic initiative to make culturally significant records available to everyone for free, Ancestry® – the global leader in family history – today announced it has digitized and made searchable more than half a million records related to the Chinese Exclusion Era. During this 60-year period in the U.S. and Canada, laws were enacted to restrict immigration and rights of people of Chinese descent. Many of these Exclusion Era records contain photos and rich details about family relationships that can help descendants learn more about their ancestors’ experiences.  

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