In a message dated 7/10/2004 10:10:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, lysi@comcast.net writes: 1624 to 31 July 1855: No receiving station 1 Aug 1855 to 18 April 1890: Castle Garden 19 April 1890 to 31 Dec 1891: Barge Office 1 Jan 1892 to 14 June 1897: Ellis Island And there is a Castle Garden list at Rootsweb and if the members don't have your ancestors [they found mine for me!] they can tell you where to hunt for them, which years are microfilmed etc, very helpful Eliz