We invite you to explore the Passenger Search database and start uncovering your family’s story. Get a first hand sense of the road that brought you here, and find your place in the larger story of American …

You will be teamed with one of our research experts to search the Ellis Island Database for your family’s passenger arrival record – an important stop along your genealogical journey!

The ship companies that transported these passengers kept detailed passenger lists, called “ Ship Manifests ” which were used to examine immigrants upon arrival in the United States.

In 2001, SOLEIF opened the American Family Immigration History f Immigration on Ellis Island. A collection of 65 million Port of New York arrival records from the Ellis Island Archives was compiled …

SOLEIF’s online Passenger Search database includes some 65 million arrival records of people coming to America through the Port of New York from 1820 through 1957.

WHO CAME TO ELLIS ISLAND? First- and second-class passengers went through a brief inspection and then disembarked at the piers in New York. Third-class (steerage) passengers were transported …

Explore our Passenger Search to find your connection to Ellis Island. Get a first hand sense of the road that brought you here, and find your place in the larger story of American immigration.

In 2001 the Foundation opened the American Family Immigration History Center at Ellis Island, which contains a searchable database of passenger manifests for Ellis Island and the Port of New York …

Statue of Liberty An icon. A symbol. A promise. Ellis Island The dream. The journey. The arrival. Foundation A commitment. A community. An organization.

Visit our Passenger Search database HERE to take a closer look at these famous names aboard the SS United States and check out your own family’s journey across the Atlantic.