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Ellis island records6/7/2023 ![]() “This completes the circle of our decades-long collaboration with the team from FamilySearch, which began with providing the public with unprecedented access to their genealogy and sparking a world-wide phenomenon linking past and present.” Briganti, President and CEO of The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. “The Foundation is delighted to make these immigration records accessible to the public for free for the first time,” said Stephen A. The result is a free searchable online database containing 63.7 million names, including immigrants, crew, and other passengers traveling to and from the United States through the nation’s largest port of entry. Originally preserved on microfilm, 9.3 million images of historical New York passenger records spanning 130 years were digitized and indexed in a massive effort by 165,590 online FamilySearch volunteers. ![]() ![]() announced today the entire collection of Ellis Island New York Passenger Arrival Lists from 1820 to 1957 are now available online on both websites giving the opportunity to the descendants of over 100 million arrivals to discover their ancestors quicker and free of charge. FamilySearch and The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. Salt Lake City, Utah (14 August 2018), What do over a 100 million Americans have in common? Their ancestors immigrated through Ellis Island or one of the New York Harbor immigration stations that preceded it.
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