Are you one of the 40 percent of Americans who can trace an ancestor to the immigration center at Ellis Island? If so, you definitely want to check out Ellis Island Online at www.ellisisland.org (see Figure 13-1).
FIGURE 13-1. Immigration records from 1892 to 1924 are available at www.ellisisland.org.
The secret to success is searching this or any other ships’ list database is to have at least some data at hand. You should have a guess as to when the immigrant arrived. Sometimes, you can find this on a death record as “how long in the United States,” or whatever ...
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