“I’ve worked with tens of thousands of names from those ship manifests,” said ... great mass of steerage-class passengers would be taken by ferry to Ellis Island. Most were processed within ...

Under normal circumstances, Ellis Island ... passed through the island, you can input that too. Your search will bring up the name, birthplace, arrival date, and ship manifest of anyone who ...

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 Encyclopedia of Ellis ...

For the Dedicated Passenger Search Session ... An example of a ship manifest.Photograph: Courtesy The Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation (If they aren't able to find anything, you ...

Housed at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum ... The database has been created from digitized information taken from ship passenger manifests available on National Archives microfilm.

Ellis Island brings you . . . your ancestors. Beginning today, anyone with an Internet connection will be able to search through old passenger manifests from the ships that ferried 17 million ...

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. No More Microfilm It was not ...

Later that month, the ferry Ellis Island made its ... were not immigrants. Passengers free of obvious diseases and whose answers matched the information on the ship manifest would be allowed ...

The ship’s manifest was presented to Ellis Island inspectors after the boat docked. From there, the inspector would cross-reference the name on the manifest with the immigrant passenger ...

The Ellis Island Foundation notes that April 1907 was a historic month in general, as the Port of New York received 197 ships, carrying more than a quarter-million passengers from around the world.