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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Tracing your family tree with Ancestry.ca

Like many people, I wondered if  Ancestry.ca could help reveal more than what I already know about my family history. Having said that, I don't think I'd come up with any skeletons in the closet and I don't think anything would surprise me given that both my parents and the generations before that seem to have a pretty straight forward lineage. I don't believe any other ethnicities blended into our family tree until my generation. But I was still curious.

The company came top of mind when videos started popping up on television and online. You know, the people who were surprised to discover their ethnic backgrounds and their results from doing the AncestryDNA test sometimes led to unexpected connections. Like this one...

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