BACK TO THE LIST Ellis Island - Tracing Your Family History
Through America's Gateway Reviewed by Joan Schmidt, Chicago, IL
Ellis Island - Tracing Your Family History Through America's
Gateway by Loretto Dennis Szucs. Revised addition 2000,
published by Ancestry Publishing (www. ancestory.com), 8 1/2 x 5
1/2, 48 pages. Price $US 4.95 In her booklet "Ellis Island"
Loretto Dennis Szucs gives us come background of this
fascinating and historical institution which was the first taste
of America so many of our ancestors saw. Ellis Island processed
immigrants from 1892 to 1954, with earlier arrivals being
processed through Castle Garden at the tip of Manhattan. About
half the United States population today can trace an ancestor
who came through Ellis Island. Loretto tells us a little of the
island itself, from its purchase in 1808 from Samuel Ellis to
build Fort Gibson to its being placed under the National Park
Service in 1965. Construction on the immigration center began in
1890. It contained a 3-story reception