THE FORGOTTEN OF ELLIS ISLAND
Deaths in Quarantine, 1909-1911

Some Resources to Help You Trace Your Immigrant Ancestors

Colletta, John Philip. They Came in Ships: A Guide to Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor's Arrival Record. [Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry, 1989, 1993]

Eakle, Arlene, and Johni Cerni, editors. "Tracking Immigrant Origins." Chapter 15 in The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy. [Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry, 1984]

Tracing Immigrant Origins, Research Outline published by LDS Family History Library. Copies can be found at your local Family History Center or you can use the on-line version found at the Family Search web site.

RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees: American Census Records — Soundex, Indexes and Finding Aids

RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees: Tracing Your Immigrant Ancestors

The Soundex Indexing System, from the web site of the National Archives and Records Administration: http://www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy/census/soundex.html

Searching the Ellis Island Database can be helpful. However, their search engine is somewhat cumbersome. Instead of using their seach engine, use the one developed by Stephen Morse. His search engine can be found at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/intro.html.

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