If all goes as planned, anyone with an Internet connection will be able to search through old passenger manifests from the ships that ferried 17 million immigrants into New York Harbor, and the ...

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.

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 island… ...

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 ...

If you've worn your fingers to a nub searching for the companion Web site that makes it possible to easily search Ellis Island passenger ship arrival records, give your mouse a rest. Dr. Steven ...

Millions of immigrants passed through Ellis Island in the 19th and 20th centuries, and you can use this online database to see if your relatives were among them.

The Ellis Island Web site provides passenger records from 1892-1924 for the Port of New York. I found the records of my paternal great-grandparents and grandparents on the site.

With the help of the Mormon Church, which has its own successful genealogy Web site, Ellis Island officials have computerized ship manifests and immigrant records.

These types of mistakes were in fact sometimes corrected by Ellis Island inspectors (by lightly marking corrections, at the request of the passenger, above the name written in the manifest).

This "museum in a box" contains 23 meticulously reproduced replicas of genuine artifacts found at Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924, which follow the immigration process of families and individuals ...