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Ellis Island Immigration Records – The key to finding your immigrant ancestors

The United States has been the destination for millions of immigrants. You can find out if your immigrants entered the United Stated through New York City by checking out Ellis Island immigration records. Ellis Island opened in 1892, taking over from the Castle Garden facility. There is a lot of information about Ellis Island immigration that is available to you on the Ellis Island website. Information such as the island’s history, its immigrants, and its immigration records can be found within it’s easy to use search functions.

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Ancestry Toolbar Helps Search and Organize Genealogy Sources

It’s not a surprise that Ancestry.com has come up with a new gadget to help you find your ancestors. Recently, Ancestry.com released a new toolbar which you can install to your web browser. What the toolbar allows you to do is grab information off any genealogy website you might be looking at and add it your your free family tree. It can also help you organize any information you have found online and access your family tree very quickly, in the event you don’t have that information at your fingertips (perhaps while you are surfing the Internet on your lunch break at work).

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Castle Garden Immigration Records – Free Immigration Records for the Port of New York

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.

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Find Ancestors for Free in Ship Passenger Lists – Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild

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.

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