Forwarded from another list: > > Several months ago I posted a message stating that Steve had a list of > every ship arrival into Ellis Island, and for most of them he even had > links back to the manifest pages. It was part of an ongoing project. > Now I learned that Steve has just completed this project after working > on it for two years. His team of over 50 volunteers went through every > one of the 3700 rolls of Ellis Island microfilms from 1892 to 1924. > > For each arrival they found, they recorded the roll, volume, > frame, date, ship-name, and ports. > > Now that it is complete, there exists for the first time a searchable > list of every ship arrival along with links to the associated manifest > pages. The list consists of a total of 84,000 ship arrivals. > > The searchable list can be accessed by clicking on the > "Ship-Lists" link in the Ellis Island section of Steve's > website at http://stevemorse.org. > > If you have any questions, please direct them to > Steve and not to me -- his e-mail address is at the > top of his website. > > - D. Jacobs, New York