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Article: Family history, without the dust.(Ellis Island immigration records available on new web site)(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- April 30, 2001
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Twelve-year-old Madison Kille is bubbling with excitement over the hottest new Internet attraction. It's not IM or MP3 downloads, but a bunch of old government documents: the immigration records from New York's Ellis Island. "We found my great-grandmother, and we actually found out her name was Paulina," says the Simsbury, Conn., girl. "We saw the ship she came in on. It's really cool." The ship's manifest revealed that officials wouldn't let the 19-year-old Paulina, traveling alone, leave the island until someone showed up to escort her to the wilds of Waukegan, Ill.
Madison is not the only one who is excited. When the Web site for the American Family ...