Now, for the first time and online, Ellis Island brings you your ancestors. Beginning today, if all goes as planned, anyone with an Internet connection will be able to search through old passenger ...

A visitor to Ellis Island steps off onto the same landing where millions of immigrants first set foot in the New World. Forty percent of Americans have an ancestor who came through this tiny ...

The manifest was presented to the officials at Ellis Island when the ship arrived. If anything, Ellis Island officials were known to correct mistakes in passenger lists. The ...

With Ellis Island's online passenger database, ... Your search will bring up the name, birthplace, arrival date, and ship manifest of anyone who matches the information.

If you're looking to fall down a rabbit hole right now, follow the researchers at Ellis Island.The Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation has more than 6 ...

Housed at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, the Ellis Island passenger database is scheduled to be launched Tuesday. It will contain the names of the more than 17 million passengers who arrived ...

At the shipping line’s station in Europe, a clerk wrote the passenger’s name in the ship’s manifest, sometimes without asking for identification verifying the spelling.

Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of migrants who passed through Ellis Island in New York. In 2014, she told the BBC about arriving in the US from the Soviet Union in 1930.

Everyone else was tagged with the ship's name and the page number where they appeared on the manifest. They were then put on a ferry to Ellis Island where their future would be decided.