Guide To Finding Your Ellis Island Ancestors

Price $19.99  

To Italian-Americans and all gentle readers: The holidays are coming and a great gift for the man or woman or the teenager you would like to see expand their heritage studies, the Ellis Island Ancestors book is now available at the Ellis Island, New York website. This book is a must for researching their immigrant family members who set sail for the United States and started a new life for generations to come. It will navigate you through searching Ellis Island including the walls of honor naming every passenger who stepped on U.S. soil, more specifically, Ellis Island.

You can also navigate the Ellis Island website and find a photo of the ship your family member traveled, how much money they had in their wallet, who sponsored them in the United States, their recorded trade, health, etc.

Just go to http://www.ellisisland.org

A screen will pop up asking for the first and last name of the passenger, the year they were born and the year they landed on Ellis Island. Don’t fret, if you can’t spell his/her first name, you can search by last name. It will give you a 7 year window, more or less, for their date of birth and they year of travel. Another great gift idea is an Ellis Island photo of the ship.