Ellis Island Records! BEST Search Strategies

The free Ellis Island Passenger Search database is home to 65 million records of passengers arriving at the Port of New York from 1820 to 1957. Kathryn Marks, Manager at The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation explains the best strategies for finding your ancestors' passenger list records in the Passenger Search Database on the Ellis Island website. Along the way, you'll learn some surprising facts about Ellis Island and these invaluable records that will have your genealogy jumping for joy!

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⌚ Jump to Video Sections:
0:00 Introduction (More to come)
00:45 What are passenger lists
01:07 Information in the records
02:16 Other records
04:09 Years covered Port of NY Records
04:16 Castle Garden Records Years
04:47 19th century records Customs Lists
05:17 Ellis Island Fire Destroyed Records
05:56 When Ellis Island closed
06:06 Where were passenger lists created
06:21 How to search Passenger List search website
06:51 Wild card search Ellis Island records
08:45 Brickwall search strategies
11:52 Finding Italian Ancestors
12:07 Finding Jewish Ancestors
12:25 Searching Families
12:47 Pre-Ellis Island (Castle Garden) Records

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