Chew webinar set to highlight book release
Images of America: Chinese in Tehama County to be released Aug. 8
PUBLISHED: July 23, 2026 at 2:12 AM PDT
A webinar is scheduled to celebrate the release of a new book, Images of America: Chinese in Tehama County.
"Images of America: Chinese in Tehama County" presented by Jessica Chew on Saturday, August 8, 2026 at 10:00 am PT Live on Zoom
During the California Gold Rush, Red Bluff emerged as one of Northern California's most important transportation hubs. Called the “head of navigation” on the Sacramento River, travelers, merchants, miners, loggers, and agricultural workers journeyed here and continued north in California, seeking their fortunes.
Chinese immigrants established a thriving Chinatown that served as a center of economic development providing lodging for seasonal workers, employment opportunities, banking, and correspondence services that linked laborers to their families in China.
Jessica will share insights from her research into her family history, uncovering historical records, newspaper archives, family photographs and recording oral history interviews.
She will describe how forgotten family stories were pieced together to illustrate the history of Red Bluff’s Chinatown, and demonstrate how genealogy research can help bring forgotten communities back to life, preserve stories before they are lost, and reconnect families with a shared heritage spanning more than 150 years.
Register at: https://www.chcp.org/event-6769381
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