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Ellis Island: Peoples
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Although there are no plans to tackle an Angel Island project right now, the Ellis Island database alone should help hundreds of thousands of people trace their ancestors and better understand their family histories. That's a pretty good start.
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Each ship that docked at Ellis Island was required to give island officials a list of people on board. Known as passenger lists, these records reveal invaluable pieces of a family's immigration story, from place of origin and intended destination in America to birth dates, names of family members and even the amount of money in their possession.
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Legislation limiting immigration passed after the war in 1917 reduced the number of people passing through Ellis Island for a few years, but by 1921 arrivals had increased to 500,000. Stricter laws were enacted in 1921 and a quota system was begun in 1924.
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The first Immigration Quota Law is passed by Congress in 1921 after booming post-war immigration results in 590,971 people passing through Ellis Island. Only 3% of an ethnic group living in the U.S. in 1910 will be allowed to enter the country in a year.
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- Passenger manifest records were kept of the more than 22 million people who entered the United States through Ellis Island. Key data available on immigrants contain up to eleven fields including important information such as name, gender, age on arrival, marital status, ship name, port of origin, and last residence.Read More
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According to published reports, Cuba has seen a dramatic drop in U.S. arrivals to the island since the Bush administration decided to eliminate the cultural exchange licenses that had allowed Americans to visit the island under humanitarian auspices. Bob Guild, program director for travel service provider, Marazul Charters, said his company sent 2,500 people to Cuba in January 2003. He estimates that this January, Marazul will do about half that number. There are still a few legal ways to travel from the U.S. to Cuba, but these are restrictive and disallow out most of those who had visited in the past.
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