Castle Garden, today known as Castle
Clinton National Monument, is the major landmark
within The Battery, the 23 acre waterfront park at
the tip of Manhattan. The Castle was America's first
official immigration center, a pioneering
collaboration of New York State and New York City.
CastleGarden.org offers free
access to an extraordinary database of information
on 10 million immigrants from 1830 through 1892, the
year Ellis Island opened. Over 73 million
Americans can trace their ancestors to this early
immigration period. the Castle was America's first
official immigration center, a pioneering
collaboration of New York State and New York City.
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January 1, 1892 The first Ellis Island Immigration Station was officially opened. The first immigrant to pass through Ellis was a "rosy-cheeked Irish girl," Annie Moore, age 15, from County Cork. She came with her two younger brothers to join their parents in New York City. That first day, three large ships were waiting to land, and 700 immigrants passed through Ellis Island. In the first year, nearly 450,000 immigrants passed through the Island. |
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This page is provides links to other relevant genealogy sites that pertain to those immigrants who originated from Prussia and immigrated to Wisconsin and more specifically to Kewaunee County. |
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This website will be dedicated to bringing many of the Kewaunee County family studies to one central website. Primary focus will be on the Heuer, Zimmermann, Pawalitzki and Beard families. |
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Geneology.com is a site that provides a lot of "how to research" tips on genealogy and provides links to other researching sites. |
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All Genealogy advertises itself as being "one of the Internet's most useful directory for useful genealogy resources for finding your ancestors". They provide hundreds of links state by state which will lead you to census records and other searchable databases. |
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Ellis Island opened Jan 1, 1892 and served as the primary processing center for landing European immigrants until 1924. A complete history of Ellis Island is available online. |
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