im doing a project on ellis island where you have to become the immigrant coming there from another country. I am "coming" from Italy. One of the things that we have to do is have primary sources and I cant seem to find any anywhere! Does anyone know where i could find some good ones online?

I found many sources concerning "Ellis Island" I trust this one to be good because it is provided by the US Government.

http://www.nps.gov/stli/serv02.htm

Once on the site you will find other links if needed.

Another interesting one is :

http://www.ellisislandimmigrants.org/ellis_island_archives.htm

[This message was edited by mozart56 on 01-07-04 at 11:26 PM.]

This site has some primary sources, such as personal histories of immigrants as reported by themselves or as told to their descendants.

http://wwwald.bham.wednet.edu/museum/museum1.htm

Also this has some interesting stuff. You can search your name here.

Here is a basic primary source site from the Norfolk Public Library index of websites:

http://www.npl.lib.va.us/sites/history_american.html

And finally:

http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/default.asp?

The following web site discusses the many areas of immigration from various geographical locations, pictures, events, historical, etc. It also specifically talks about Ellis Island. You can click your way around alot of information on this site...

Good luck!

Immigration