Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Series A, Subject correspondence files [microform], Supplement to Part 1, Asian immigration and exclusion, 1898-1941 / editorial advisor, Alan Kraut.

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A federal act of 1882 established procedures for recording immigrants arriving in the United States. The records maintained by federal immigration officials were often called immigration passenger lists of manifests. From the description of Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Savannah, Ga., 1906-1945. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 174142611 Ellis Island, an island in Upper New York Bay, is named for Samuel Ellis, who acquired land on the i...