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    Ellis Island: Tracing Your Family History Through America's Gateway
    Ellis Island: Tracing Your Family History Through America's Gateway
    Ellis Island: Tracing Your Family History Through America's Gateway
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    Ellis Island: Tracing Your Family History Through America's Gateway

    By Loretto Dennis Szucs

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    Almost half of all Americans have at least one ancestor who entered the United States through Ellis Island (also called America's Gateway""). In Ellis Island: Tracing Your Family History Through America's Gateway, leading family history author and researcher Loretto Dennis Szucs explains how you can find out if your relatives were among the millions who were processed for entry at this historic landmark. This book details the immigrant experience at Ellis Island and teaches you about the records that are available to help you trace your ancestors' entry into the New World.""
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAncestry.com
    Release dateJun 1, 2000
    ISBN9781618589590
    Ellis Island: Tracing Your Family History Through America's Gateway

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      Ellis Island - Loretto Dennis Szucs

      AMERICA OPENS ITS DOORS

      The history of immigration spans American history. The settlements in America by Europeans in the early 1600s began a movement of people that has brought 42 million immigrants—the greatest migration in recorded history—into the country. So the story of immigration is really the story of America.

      The story of immigration is really the story of America.

      Students of U.S. history trace the country’s beginnings to the founding of Jamestown in 1616 and the subsequent immigrant/colonizing settlements in the New England area. This colonizing continued through most of the 1600s and 1700s, until colonists decided they wanted to separate from England and started the American Revolution. Once the new country was formally established (following the Revolution), it wasn’t long until issues of immigration and naturalization began to have an impact. In fact, in 1795 the first naturalization act was established, and it was followed by the first U.S. Alien and Sedition Act in 1798. These and other laws in subsequent years gave the federal government some power to regulate exactly who could enter and reside in the new country, but it wasn’t until 1906 that immigration laws were made uniform. And by that time, immigration was beyond being in full

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