Good morning, Go to this link, towards the bottom and you will get a short explanation on why a person was detained.  If you need more information, use Google or Yahoo search engines with these keywords: detained "Ellis Island"  Keep the quotes around "Ellis Island" http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/eidbfaq.html   Pat --- On Wed, 4/29/09, galicia-request@rootsweb.com <galicia-request@rootsweb..com> wrote From: galicia-request@rootsweb.com <galicia-request@rootsweb.com> Subject: GALICIA Digest, Vol 3, Issue 13 To: galicia@rootsweb.com Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 3:00 AM Today's Topics:    1. detained aliens from Ellis Island (Laurence Krupnak) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:47:37 -0400 From: "Laurence Krupnak" <LKrupnak@verizon.net> Subject: [GALICIA] detained aliens from Ellis Island To: <galicia@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <008001c9c88e$00f77b60$0201a8c0@user45c476a8b6> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=utf-8;     reply-type=original Andrew, at the end of the ship passenger manifest sheets are the Immigration Inspectors reports on (1) Detained Passengers and (2) Passengers Held For Special Inquiry. ______ Lavrentiy Krupniak From: "Andrew Holowenczak" < aholowenczak@bearhillrehab.com> Subject: [GALICIA] detained aliens from Ellis Island Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:09:19 -0400 When researching my family (Holowenczak) history I found that Ewa Holowenchuk (different spelling variation) was on list of Detained Aliens from ship America in December 1913. What would be the reason to be detained and how long usually such detention lasted? Where can I find similar records? Thank you very much, Andrew Holowenczak ------------------------------ End of GALICIA Digest, Vol 3, Issue 13 **************************************