If you carefully study your pedigree, it is quite possible that in your family tree you will find relatives who have gone to America for more than a century ago and continued there. Therefore, it is possible that today you have long relatives living beyond the ocean, who even have consonant with your surname.
Such cases in the genealogy of Ukrainian families are not unique. Demographic growth of the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. and, accordingly, the growing land hunger massively pushed the Ukrainians, both from the suburbs and from the suburbs of Ukraine, to the search for the best fate overseas.
How to find records about your relatives, who at one time left for US? Today, special online services for the search of people who arrived in America serve for this purpose. An arrival to the New World was accompanied by a number of formal procedures that every emigrant must go through before heading to the mainland. The point of arrival of most migrants from Europe was the island of Ellis in New York. It is located near the Liberty Island, on which there is the famous statue of the same name. Indeed, it was one of the first objects that migrants from the deck of the ship saw while sailing to the American coast.
Since 1892, the immigration service of the federal government has been operating on the island of Ellis. There, the emigrants were undergoing a multi-week quarantine, medical examination, registration, and only passing all the necessary procedures, they could get to the mainland. In general, it is customary to assume that in the period from 1892 to 1924 Through the island of Ellis Island, the United States has hit about 16 million people. One third of them settled in New York. Another 20 million people got through the island from 1892 to 1954. Island ceased to accept migrants in 1954, now the Museum of Immigration is operating there.
Today, information about most of the legal migrants to America arriving here through Ellis Island is digitized and is freely accessible.
We will analyze one of the most popular and convenient, in our opinion, search systems for migrants in the United States. This is the site of The Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation.
You can immediately start a search by typing in the Latin name and surname. It is not necessary to indicate the latter, the main thing is to set the name correctly. To do this, try some combinations with vowels that are consonant, or with similar consonants.
The system itself suggests similar surnames, but, for example, the name of Lyseyko can be written as Lyseyko, Leseyko, Lisejko, and each time the system will issue new personal data, most of which actually belonged to the same family.
In order to fully use all the features of the site, it is better to register at once. Without registration, you will not be able to view more detailed information about the persons you are interested in.
After registering, you can go to a full-fledged search. Enter the last name on the main page, and the system will show you a list of people who came to America with that or a similar name. In the list that opens, the name and surname of the migrant, the year of arrival, the place of the former residence and the name of the ship on which the person arrived in the USA will be indicated. In addition, there is an opportunity to get more detailed information about the person who is interested in you. For this purpose, special tabs are used.
The Passenger Record tab contains detailed information about the person who interests you. All information is in English:
First name is the name
Last name - last name
Nationality - nationality, nationality or nationality
Last Place of Residence - place of residence
Date of Arrival - Arrival date in the USA
Gender - gender
Marital Status is a marital status
Ship of Travel - a ship on which the migrant traveled to the United States
Port of Departure - port of departure
Manifest Line Number - the number at which the migrant was registered as a passenger of the ship.
The Ship Information tab tells you about the vessel on which the migrant arrived in the United States. Here you can see photos of this ship, a brief description of the technical characteristics and history of the ship. As a rule, they were large courts cruising between Europe and America, carrying hundreds of passengers on board.
Especially interesting is the Ship Manifest tab - there you will find a scan of a document with a note about the arrival of the person who is interested in you.
This is a set of basic options that you can use to search for migrants in the United States. We hope the information was useful and you will find someone from the relatives who at one time went abroad in search of a better life. If searches cause difficulties or get stuck - our organization's specialists will help you find your relatives, including those who once went abroad.