Ellis Island National Park

Would you like to find out more about your genealogy? You might enjoy going to visit Ellis Island. It is part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in New York City, New York. Beginning in 1892, more than twelve million immigrants came to the U.S. by way of the immigration station on Ellis Island before it closed in 1954. It became a national monument in May 1965. Today there is a museum run by the National Park Service that more than two million people visit each year. It is one of the U.S.'s most popular historic sites. You can pay a small fee to search the records for .....


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