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merits includes the immigrant’s name, ship, port of departure, arrival date, line number on manifest, gender, age, marital status, nationality and last residence.
Visitors can obtain free printouts of immigration data. They can also purchase a scanned reproduction of an actual ship’s passenger manifest for $25 to $35 each. Pictures with historic information on more than 800 passenger ships that carried immigrants to America are also available.
Members of The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. can scan in personal family documents, records and photos to create their own family history scrapbooks for storage in this national family history archive.
More information is available by writing to The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., Attn: Records Search, P.O. Box ELLIS, New York, NY 10163. The phone number is (212) 883-1986, and the Web address is www.ellisislandrecords.org.
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