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Ellis Island
Ellis Island is an island in the New York Harbor that acted as the chief immigration station for the US from 1892 to 1943. Forty percent of Americans can trace their ancestry through at least one person who came through Ellis Island. The site was designated as a national monument in 1965.
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Is Milinkovich croatian or serbian?
i am also a milinkovich and it is serbian. we come from yougoslavia and when we all came to Ellis island they changed the last name and put an h at the end.
Why were the immigrants assigned numbers by Ellis island officials?
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What actors and actresses appeared in Ellis Island - 1984?
The cast of Ellis Island - 1984 includes:
- Alice Krige as Bridget O'Donnell
- Judi Bowker as Georgie O'Donnell
- Peter Riegert as Jacob Rubinstein (Jake Rubin)
- Gregory Paul Martin as Marco Santorelli
- Faye Dunaway as Maud Charteris
- Liam Neeson as Kevin Murray
- Sydney Arnold as Call boy
- Peter Banks as Election clerk
- John Barrard as Guido
- Gay Baynes as Ria
- Claire Bloom as Rebecca Weiler
- Ellen Blueth as Mrs. Fleming
- Mark Burdis as Sean
- Jonathan Burn as Al Jolson
- Edward Burnham as Seamus
- Richard Burton as Sen. Phipps Ogden
- Kate Burton as Vanessa Ogden
- Michael Byrne as Dr. Carl Travers
- Jason Carter as Jamie Barrymore
- Frances de la Tour as Millie Renfrew
- Gita Denise as Rally singer
- Vernon Dobtcheff as Rachmaninoff
- Billy Ehninger as Mark Santorelli
- Doug Fisher as Harry Epstein
- Clark Flanagan as Denny
- Joan Greenwood as Madame Levitska
- Stephen Greif as Jesse Lasky
- Michael Harbour as Gene Fairchild
- Jeff Harding as Young reporter
- Adam Henderson as Eddy Forbes
- Julian Holloway as Florenz Ziegfeld
- Helen Horton as Miss Pringle
- Bill Hutchinson as Official
- Frank Jakeman as Immigrant
- Ian Jentle as Ike Ferguson
- Ann Jillian as Nellie Byfield
- Chuck Julian as William Morris
- Leo Kahle as Little immigrant boy
- Stubby Kaye as Abe Shulman
- Douglas Lambert as Richards
- Victor Langley as Yates
- James Lister as Dino Frascati
- Stephen Lubman as Tutor
- Isabelle Lucas as Stella
- Cherie Lunghi as Una Marbury
- Derek Lyons as Immigration Officer
- Robert MacLeod as Marty Sontag
- William Merrow as Hoffemeister
- Melba Moore as Flora Mitchum
- Christopher Muncke as Travis Crane
- Nosher Powell as Man
- Duncan Preston as Pat McCay
- Natasha Richardson as Young lady of the night
- Shane Rimmer as Duffy
- Emma Samms as Violet Weiler
- Bernice Stegers as Renata
- Ian Tyler as Peter
- Ben Vereen as Roscoe Haines
What was the the tagging process at Ellis Island?
the tagging process was that they put price like tags with seven digits.
Ellis Island is federally owned. No one individual has the papers to that particular piece of land.
What tool was used to check eyes at Ellis island?
The doctor had to flip back their upper eyelids with a hooked instrument to examine the eyeball for disease--Trachoma. A common instrument was the buttonhook.
Ellis Island sailed across which ocean?
Ellis Island is an island, and therefore cannot sail anywhere.
What are the names of the main characters in the novel Orphan of Ellis Island?
Dominic,Salvatore,Antonio, and Francesco.
What is a sentence that has the word Ellis island?
Ellis island is a small island but because of sandy it is a wreck
When did Ellis Island become a park?
In 1965, president Johnson issued a proclomation that gave the island to the National Parks Service, but it has only been giving tours to the public since 1976. http://www.history.com/content/ellis-island/timeline
What island is the statue of liberty located on?
It is situated on Liberty Island formerly known as Bedloe's Island.
How many children did Elisabeth Ellis Masters have?
She had two children Sarah Masters Paul and William Howell Masters III and one child with Henry Ferris, whom she later married. They named the child Frances Canby Ferris.
What famous immigration station opened in New York Harbor in 1892?
The Ellis Island Immigration Station opened in 1892.
