Answers.com – Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia and much more

Answers.com – Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia and much more: “Spotlight: If your relatives originally arrived in the US from Europe in the first half of the twentieth century, chances are good that they came through Ellis Island, the country’s main immigration port. Located in NY Harbor, the immigration station opened in 1892. More than 12 million immigrants had been processed there by the time the doors were officially closed on November 12, 1954. The island now houses the Ellis Island Immigration Museum and is a part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument. “

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