Castle Garden was America's first official immigration center. The site, http://www.castlegarden.org/ hosts a database of info on 10 million immigrants, from 1830 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened, and will eventually complete the digitization of the remaining 2 million records, beginning in 1820, from the original ship manifests. Information includes: First name, Last name, Occupation, Age, Sex, Date Arrived, Origin of Ship There are 2,214 ALEXANDER records on the site. Thelmarie "Thel" Alexander Curtis [email protected]