In this revised edition sixty-nine poems in the main text have been combined with the sixty-six poems in the appendix into one section. Chinese poems that had been found on the walls of the immigration stations at Ellis Island in New York and at Victoria Island in Canada are also included. Charles Egan, David Chuenyan Lai, Marlon K. Hom, and Ellen Yeung helped with the new translations and corrected any errors in the poems based on "Poetry and Inscriptions,"...

Lyman Barnes (1794-1885), son of William Barnes and a descendant in the sixth generation of Thomas Barnes, the immigrant, who was living at New Haven, Connecticut, by 1636, was probably born at Otis, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. He married Sibel White (1795-1882) in 1816 at. Tolland, Massachusetts. They had at least two sons, 1822-1833. The family migrated to Pharsala Township, Chenango County, New York, in 1827. He died there. His son, Emory...

Leon Jay Rogers was born in 1930 in Oregon to Layfatte Miller and Anna Jane Holden. At his birth, he was named Tolover Clarence Miller but later changed his name to Leon Jay Rogers. Birdie Bell Oldfield (1929-1995) was born in California to James Walter Oldfield and Bonnie Jean Frost. Birdie and Leon were married in 1947 in Nevada. Covers some of their ancestors and descendants. The Oldfield line begins with James Coffee Oldfield (b. 1836) of...

Collección "Los caudillos argentinos".

Walter Scott Wilson (1838-1918), a son of Benjamin Franklin Wilson and Mary Eliza Reddick, was born in North Carolina. He fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War, and in 1868 married Mary Frances Mitchell (1849-1899), a daughter of Robert R. Mitchell and Ann Hurd. They had twelve children. Many descendants live in the southeastern United States.

"An annotated anthology of poems and prose inscribed on the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station and published in ethnic newspapers, describing the experiences of Asian immigrants "becoming American." Provided by publisher.