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Lesson 3: Ellis Island

Ellis Island Resources from the National Park Service.

Cyndi's List of Genealogical Sites on the Internet: Ellis Island Many links including general resource sites; Ellis Island online databases; National Archives and Records Administration; "our name was changed at Ellis Island"; photographs, exhibits and tours; and books, software, and supplies.

Ellis Island Immigration Museum Tour Take a virtual tour.

An Interactive Tour of Ellis Island If you want to start your tour at a particular place, use the Index Map

Ellis Island An exhibit by the History Channel, which includes a 10 question test to see whether you would have been allowed to pass through.

Coming to America Author David Fryxell tells some detailed experiences of people who arrived at Ellis Island and what happened to them afterward.

Coming to America in the 1920s: Relive a Boy's Journey The story of Seymour Rechtzeit, who was 8 years old in 1920, when he left his home in Poland and journeyed to America. Told in his own words when he was 90. From Scholastic.

Search Immigration Records

Keystone-Mast Collection: Immigrants and Ellis Island Photo gallery from UCR/California Museum of Photography.

History of Ellis Island From ThinkQuest.

They Changed Our Name at Ellis Island Expert Donna Przecha dispels some common myths about name-changing at various points of immigration.

American Names / Declaring Independence More debunking of name-change stories. By Marian L. Smith, INS historian.

Name Change Myth Still more debunking.

Historical Fiction:

Land of Hope and Land of Promise by Joan Lowery Nixon. About three immigrant girls, Jewish, Irish, and Swedish, who meet on their way to Ellis Island.