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Chuck Gould Chuck Gould is offline
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Default Immigrant ancestors?

On Oct 2, 12:29?pm, John H. wrote:
If your ancestors came through Ellis Island you haven't looked up their
arrival documents, ship, etc, you may find this site interesting. I found
the documentation of my grandparents' arrival from Holland in 1914, and
also documentation of another trip the family took in 1924.

Interesting, and...they came by boat!

http://www.ellisisland.org/search/pa...12130239015584...

or

http://tinyurl.com/25eh2p


But contrary to popular belief, your ancestors *didn't* go through
Ellis Island if they booked first class passage on the steamship.

Under the logical assumption that "folks with money are automatically
going to be healthy", it was Lady Liberty's "tired, poor, hungry,
huddled masses" that were quarantined on Ellis Island. The upper
classes were
briefly interviewed at the head of the gangway and then allowed
directly into the US.