US Citizenship & Immigration Services
National Center for Health Statistics
(Birth & Marraige Licenses)
US GenWeb Project - Resources by State
Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation - Tips & Passenger Search
It has been estimated that nearly half of all Americans today can trace their family history to at least one person who passed through the Port of New York at Ellis Island.
Their database allows access to the records of millions of immigrants.
Getting Started with Genealogy on the Web
(Thanks, Marisa & Olivia!)
Search for your ancestors in free Ships' Passenger lists, Naturalization Records, Palatine Genealogy, Canadian Genealogy, American Genealogy, Native American Genealogy, Huguenots, Mennonites, Almshouse Records, Orphan Records, church records, military muster rolls, census records, land records and more.
Castle Garden - Castlegarden.org is a free database developed and funded by The Battery Conservancy. It contains and makes available eleven million records of immigrants who arrived at the Port of New York from 1820 - 1892. Today more than 100 million Americans can trace their ancestry to this early period of immigration.
