GENEALOGY LIFE
Happy 20th Anniversary, Ellis Island Immigrant Database!
What a difference two decades make
4 min readApr 14, 2021
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In April of 2001, a miracle occurred. Well, it certainly seemed that way at the time. The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation (SOLEIF) opened the American Family Immigration History Center (AFIHC), launching an online database — digitized and indexed — of…