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Castle Garden in New York City was one of the processing centers where immigrants from all over the world passed through when they immigrated to the United States. Castle Garden immigration records are available for the 10 millions plus immigrants to the United States passing through this port even before Ellis Island was opened. Castle Garden was in operation from 1830 to 1892, which was when Ellis Island was opened. 
The most well known site on the Internet for finding your ancestors in free passenger lists is the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG). The ISTG has been online since September 1998 with a few volunteers who transcribed passenger lists. The ISTG now has over 500 volunteers who are completing this important work to be published on their website. As of today, there are over 9,000 passengers lists that have been transcribed! The lists that they transcribe are mainly from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) microfilm collection.
You have most certainly run across Ancestry.com in your online genealogy research. It’s pretty hard not to – they have the largest genealogy record collection on the Internet. Did you assume is was only a subscription-based genealogy site? Most people would think so. Well, I’m here to tell you that surprisingly, Ancestry.com does offer quite a bit of information and functionality for free. I will be talking about all of the free genealogy resources in later articles but today I want to focus on using the free family tree builder. The family tree builder allows you to have an online home for your genealogy information so you can always access it. The first thing you need is a free account. You can also get an Free 14-day Trial if you are interested in trying out the subscription-only database access but it is not required.
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If you have not run across the site Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK) while searching your ancestors for free online, you are in for a real treat! The RAOGK has over 4000 volunteers who are willing and able to perform a variety of genealogy research tasks for free! The volunteers donate their time just to help out other genealogists. However, you are required to reimburse the volunteer for items such as postage, copies, or mileage, which seems only fair if someone is going to drive out to a cemetery and take pictures for you! Only recently did they allow volunteers to charge for mileage since fuel prices have gone up. Continue reading Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness can knock down your brick wall!
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