“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 worldwide phenomenon linking past and present. Find out why immigrants may have been detained at Ellis Island and the paper trail that can shed light on the past. 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 and searchable database containing 63.7 million names, including immigrants, crew and other passengers traveling to and from the United States through Ellis Island, the nation’s largest port of entry. The records contain information about the immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island from 1892 to 1924, including their names, ages, countries of origin, and reasons for coming to the United States. 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. The Ellis Island records are a collection of passenger arrival records from the Ellis Island Immigration Station in New York Harbor. This online database contains family connections for more than 100 million Americans living today. LDS Church has released a statement regarding records on Family Search: The entire collection of Ellis Island New York Passenger Arrival Lists from 1820 to 1957 is now available online at and the Statue of Liberty–Ellis Island Foundation.
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