I see that Ancestry.com has extended their offer of free access to their massive passenger list collection - through the end of the year. If you haven’t done a thorough search for your ancestor’s passenger list entries, now would be a good time. I just located the list for my great-grandmother’s immigration in 1849 on […]
Ancestry.com has announced that it has added to its online service all readily available U.S. passenger lists from 1820 to 1960. Wow! This is a lot of data. I’m not surprised, as I spent days reviewing the immigration digital data sites at Ancestry.com for the Sept-Oct issue of the Net Family History section in the […]
The manifests of ships arriving at Canadian Ports listing passengers have been preserved on microfilm at Library and Archives Canada. The goal of the Nanaimo Family History Society is to index arrivals at Halifax and Quebec (Montreal is included in the Port of Quebec) from 1900 to about 1921 when the passenger lists were […]
On 28 October 2006, the Statue of Liberty will celebrate her 120th birthday! To mark the occasion, The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation has announced a Picture Contest for children, Kindergarten through fifth grades. As early as Kindergarten, students learn about the concepts of American immigration (though they might not realize it) - […]
The following excerpt, from a September 16, 2006 New York Times article, continues the newly discovered saga of Annie Moore.
Four generations of descendants of Annie Moore Schayer, the first immigrant to be processed on Ellis Island, gathered yesterday in New York for the first time to celebrate her rediscovery and their own and […]
I blogged a few days ago about the fact that Megan Smolenyak was about to announce who the real Annie Moore actually was.
The New York Times revealed the story today. A great story…
Annie Moore is memorialized by bronze statues in New York Harbor and ireland and cited in story and song as the first […]
The following News Release leaves us wanting more. My friend, Megan Smolenyak, will give us just that on September 15.
New York, NY — (SBWIRE) — 09/07/2006 — Its a classic case of truthiness. For years, weve chosen to believe an oft-told myth about Ellis Island when the truth was readily available. But on September 15th, […]