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Between and roughly million came through Ellis Island, a small patch of land looking just off the tip of New York City. Today of people still pass through each day, but they're , not immigrants.

David Samuelsen is from .
Many people their lives over the years for , and that symbolizes why we're here today.

Ellis Island was the first federally controlled system in America. Each day of immigrants arrived from .

Gary Moreno is a at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.
Before Ellis Island was , there were very few over immigration. In fact, at one point you didn't anything, only enough to buy a steamship .

But in , due to the large influx of people, the government controls on immigration and implemented a screening system.
They were weeding out immigrants. So the were ordered to the entry of or also Bolsheviks. So therefore you had to find out who is an anarchist, who is a Bolshevik or a .

If immigrants were or in poor or didn't have enough money, they were in a detention center on Ellis Island until they were either or back to their home countries. If immigrants committed a while in the U.S., they too were held or deported. In the years of Ellis Island's operation, all but one per cent of immigrants were eventually admitted.

Well, the make-up of immigrants to America has greatly . per cent of all Americans have a they can trace to Ellis Island. That makes the Family History Center a spot. Here, people can look up a relative who came through the of New York. This woman found her .
My grandparents were steerage . They weren't first or second , they came with ten bucks in their . And so now I'm here, I realize how it was to everything... their homes, their families, their commune... And they made it, and they made it good for us. So... isn't that ?

With about twenty-five million individual on file, the Family History Center allows to connect to their in a way many never have. And as the melting pot of America and families disperse, the historical records are increasingly to those who wish to remain to their past.