Discover your ancestors in the most comprehensive collection of passenger lists available online, with more than 100 million names from more than 100 U.S. ports. We're celebrating the hundredth anniversary of 1907 - the largest year of immigration through Ellis Island - by giving you FREE ACCESS to the Immigration Collection through April 30.
Enter what you know in the boxes below. Even a guess can help.
Almost half of all Americans have at least one ancestor who
entered the United States through Ellis Island, also known as
"America's Gateway." In Ellis Island, leading family history
author and researcher Loretto Dennis Szucs explains how you
can find out if your relatives were among the millions who were
processed for entry at this historic landmark.
LEARN MORE
Narrated by Mandy Patinkin, this moving program uses hundreds
of interviews from the Ellis Island Oral History Project to
tell the incredible stories of immigration to America. Historians
explore Ellis Island's sometimes insensitive policies. Rare
photographs and films tell the true stories of those who passed
through the "Golden Door."
