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Wikipedia entry for Castle Clinton.

Built to keep people out; now welcomes millions in. Located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island, Castle Clinton represents not only the growth of New York City, the the growth of a Nation. First intended to keep out a British invasion in 1812,...

CastleGarden.org offers free access to an extraordinary database of information on 10 million immigrants from 1830 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. Over 73 million Americans can trace their ancestors to this early immigration period.

CIMO - Cimorelli Immigration Manifests Online.
This is an online collection of databases comprised of the Morton Allan Directory, M1066 Microfilm series from NARA, various newspaper articles, Internet sources, and personal contributions,...

Ellis Island is the symbol of American immigration and the immigrant experience. Use the Free Search to find your immigrant ancestors arriving through the Port of New York at Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924

Forgotten Ellis Island - A book and DVD about the Ellis Island Hospital.

Article: They Changed Our Name at Ellis Island.

Transcriptions of immigrant ship records.

The Keystone View Company, Underwood and Underwood, H. C. White Company and other publishers of popular stereoscopic photographs in the early 20th century documented immigration through the most famous point of entry, Ellis Island. These 3D images...

An outstanding website that helps you search Ellis Island, Castle Garden, Baltimore, Boston and Galviston passenger lists. Also search Germans to America (1850-1897), Italians to America (1855-1900), Russians to America (1834-1897) and much, much...

Illustrations from the holdings of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division on the subject of the Ellis Island and Immigration, ca. 1880-1920

SSHSA is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to recording, preserving and sharing the history of engine-powered vessels, legendary passengers, and hardworking crew.

The American Immigrant Wall of Honor is a permanent exhibit of individual or family names featured at Ellis Island in New York Harbor. It is the only place in the United States where an individual can honor his or her family heritage at a National...

Many immigrants to America played the beautiful zither. If you ancestor played the zither, we'd like to include their biography at our website, a website dedicated to the zither and zither players in America.