Passenger Ships
Castle Garden |
This free site offers access to an extraordinary database of
information on 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the
year Ellis Island opened. Over 100 million Americans can trace
their ancestors to this early immigration period. |
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Ellis Island |
On April 17, 2001 the Foundation launched the American Family
Immigration History Center® (AFIHC), on Ellis Island and the
World Wide Web, which makes the 25 million arrival records and
over 900 ships of passage pictures in the Ellis Island Archives
available to everyone. |
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Fara Heim |
Voyage of Rediscovery will focus on sailing from Manitoba to
Iceland while searching for evidence that the Vikings had gone
into the heart of the North American continent.
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