The Conway & Clohessy Tree

The Ellis Island Archive contains the passenger lists of more than 51 million immigrants, passengers, and crew members who came through Ellis Island and the Port of New York from 1892 to 1957. The period from 1892 to 1924 at Ellis Island was the largest human migration in modern history!

The ship companies that transported these passengers kept detailed passenger lists, called "ship manifests" which were used to examine immigrants upon arrival in the United States. Thanks to the generous efforts of volunteers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, these manifests have been transcribed into this vast digitized archive, which you can navigate for free in search of an individual passenger.

The Ellis Island Archive contains Passenger Records which provide 11 fields of information including passenger name, date of arrival, ship of travel, age on arrival, and more; Historical Manifests scanned from the original microfilm, showing the same fields of information and much more; and over 900 Ship Images along with the history and background of each ship that brought immigrants to America. (Note: In the 1940s the U.S. government had the original ship passenger manifest pages microfilmed for storage prior to discarding them.)