Our "Ellis Island" reopens February 15, 2009,

[helen]

Our "Ellis Island" reopens February 15, 2009, after more than three years of restoration and preservation work.

You might find their website of great interest and might be moved to donate to help further restore the site.
On this page of their website are three YouTube interviews of men who were detained on Angel Island when they first came to America many years ago.

www.aiisf.org/?option=com_content&view=article&id=85:detainee-stories&catid=64:about-articles&Itemid=85

[helen]

. San Francisco's local TV news story on Angel Island by news reporter Thuy Vu.

cbs5.com/local/angel.island.immigration.2.934295.html


The complete article can be viewed at:
www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-angel-island13-2009feb13,0,351864.story

On Angel Island, the walls still talk By Maria L. La Ganga
February 13 2009

[grantdin]

Thanks, Helen, for your posts. All Siyi Genealogy board members and their friends and family are encouraged to visit Angel Island in San Francisco Bay and also explore the resources on our website. The Washington Post also ran another article on Angel Island this past Sunday, "At Angel Island, the Walls Do Talk":

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/09/AR2009100902438.html?sub=AR

Please visit www.aiisf.org for an overview and click on "Media" or "Videos" to see some of the many stories and resources we have available, and "Visit" to plan your trip - be sure to take the tour so you can see all of the Chinese poetry that was carved on the walls. We are gearing up for our centennial year - the immigration station was in use from 1910 to 1940. For more information or to get on our email list, contact us at [e-mail]. Thanks!

Grant Din, Director of Special Projects, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation

[helen]

here's a free website to locate passengers who came though Ellis Island

www.ellisisland.org/search/passSearch.asp




www.ellisisland.org/EIinfo/about.asp
The Wall of Honor

One of the most inspiring Foundation projects is The American Immigrant Wall of Honor®. Located on the restored Ellis Island, the Wall proudly bears the names of more than half a million immigrants whose descendants memorialized them by having their names inscribed there. Registrations are now being accepted for a new phase of the Wall. More about the Wall of Honor.


The American Family Immigration History Center® (AFIHC)

The newest and most exciting Foundation project is the American Family Immigration History Center® (AFIHC), which opened in 2001 on Ellis Island and the World Wide Web, and makes the 25 million immigrant arrival records in the Ellis Island Archives available to everyone. More about AFIHC