Kathy: I cannot thank you enough for the Castle Garden website. I've suspected that my husband's grandparents may have come through a little too early for Ellis Island and I didn't realize that Castle Garden had this excellent database. Again, many thanks! Kathe Young Martin >VA-SOUTHSIDE-D Digest Volume 06 : Issue 18 > >Today's Topics: > #1 Re: [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] offtopic, ell ["Westview" > <westview@brookneal.net] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from VA-SOUTHSIDE-D, send a message to > VA-SOUTHSIDE-D-request@rootsweb.com >that contains in the body of the message the command > unsubscribe >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:39:54 -0500 >From: "Westview" <westview@brookneal.net> >To: VA-SOUTHSIDE-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <00a401c6275e$e71ec3c0$e7a2fe41@computer> >Subject: Re: [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] offtopic, ellis island records >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >FYI, from 1830 until 1892 (when Ellis Island opened), Castle Garden in New >York was the first offiicial immigration center. The have an excellent, >searchable website http://www.castlegarden.org/ with immigration records >including ships manifests that span from 1820 to 1913. I have found several >relatives there and highly recommend it. > >kathy

You are very welcome, Kathe! I am so glad the Castle Garden info helped you and the other kind people who have written me. Most people are unfamilar with Castle Garden although tens of thousands of immigrants passed through there. If you belong to other lists it might be a good thing to pass along. Kathy