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 ...

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 ...

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'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 ...

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.

How Ellis Island shepherded millions of ... Passengers free of obvious diseases and whose answers matched the information on the ship manifest would be allowed to disembark when the ship ...

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.

N E W  Y O R K, April 17 -- If your grandmother or great-grandfather, or any other relative came to American shores through Ellis Island in New York, they could be just the click of a mouse ...

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 ...

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.