Where Did I Come From? “Tracking ancestors who entered the country through Ellis Island used to mean
poring through endless reels of microfilm.

Now, it can be as simple as a few clicks of a computer mouse.

On Tuesday, Ellis Island officials and the Mormon church introduced a new database containing arrival
records for the 22 million immigrants who entered the port of New York from 1892 to 1924. The database, which includes 70 percent of all U.S. arrivals recorded during that
period, will be available to Ellis Island visitors and on the Internet.” Wired A search of the Ellis Island website of the National park Service indicates that, despite publicity promising a Y2K opening, the American Family Immigration History Center is “Coming Soon in 2001: AFIHC

American Family Immigration History Center: New family history research facility that contains the ships’ passenger records on the over 22 million
people who entered through the Port of New York and Ellis Island from 1892-1924, the peak years of immigrant processing at Ellis Island. Visitors will
be able to access 11 fields of digitized information, as well as obtain reproductions of original ship manifests and photos of ships of passage. For more
information please contact the Statue of Liberty – Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., at (212) 883-1986.”