If you carefully study your family tree, it is quite possible that you will find relatives in your family tree who left for America more than a century ago and continued their lineage there. Therefore, it is possible that today you have distant relatives living overseas who have even preserved a surname consonant with yours.
Such cases in the genealogy of Ukrainian families are not unique. The demographic growth of the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries and, accordingly, the growing land hunger massively pushed Ukrainians from both Austrian and Russian Ukraine to seek a better fate overseas...
How can you find records of your relatives who once emigrated to the United States? Today, there are special databases for this purpose. online people search services, who arrived in America. Arrival in the New World was accompanied by a number of formal procedures that each emigrant had to go through before setting foot on the mainland. The point of arrival of most migrants from Europe was Ellis Island in New York. It is located near Liberty Island, on which stands the famous Statue of the same name. Indeed, it was one of the first objects that migrants saw from the deck of the ship, sailing to the American shore.
Since 1892, Ellis Island has been home to the federal government's immigration service. There, immigrants underwent several weeks of quarantine, medical examinations, and registration, and only after passing all the necessary procedures could they enter the mainland. It is generally accepted that between 1892 and 1924, about 16 million people entered the United States through Ellis Island. A third of them settled in New York City itself. Another 20 million people passed through the island from 1892 to 1954. The island stopped accepting immigrants in 1954, and now houses the Immigration Museum.
Today, information about most legal immigrants to America who arrived here through Ellis Island has been digitized and is freely available.
We will analyze one of the most popular and, in our opinion, most convenient systems for searching for migrants in the USA. This is the site The Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation. You can start the search right away by entering the desired surname and first name in Latin. It is not necessary to specify the latter, the main thing is to enter the surname correctly. And to do this, try several combinations with consonant vowels or with similar consonants.
The system itself suggests similar surnames, however, for example, the surname Lyseyko can be entered as Lyseyko, Leseyko, Lisejko, and each time the system will provide data on new personalities, most of whom actually belonged to the same family.
In order to fully use all the features of the site, it is better to register right away. Without registration, you will not be able to view more detailed information about the people you are interested in.
The fastest and easiest way is to register using your Facebook account.
After registering, you can proceed to a full-fledged search. Enter the desired surname on the main page and the system will show you a list of people who arrived in America with this or a similar surname. The list that opens will indicate the first and last name of the migrant, the year of arrival, the place of previous residence and the name of the ship on which the person traveled to the USA. In addition, it is possible to obtain more detailed information about the person you are interested in. Special tabs are used for this purpose.
The Passenger Record tab contains more detailed information about the person you are interested in. All information is provided in English:
First name – name
Last name – surname
Nationality – nationality, citizenship or subjection
Last Place of Residence
Date of Arrival – date of arrival in the USA
Gender
Marital Status
Ship of Travel – the ship on which the migrant traveled to the USA
Port of Departure
Manifest Line Number – the number under which the migrant was registered as a passenger on the ship.
The Ship Information tab tells about the ship on which the migrant arrived in the USA. Here you can see a photo of this ship, a brief information with technical characteristics and history of the ship. As a rule, these were large ships that sailed between Europe and America, carrying hundreds of passengers on board.
The Ship Manifest tab is particularly interesting – there you will find a scanned copy of the document with a record of the arrival of the person you are researching.
This is a set of basic options that you can use when searching for migrants to the USA. We hope that the information was useful and that you will find one of your relatives who once left abroad in search of a better fate. If the search causes difficulties or has reached a dead end, the specialists of our organization will help. find your relatives, including those who have ever gone abroad.