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On November 12, 1954, Ellis Island, the gateway to America, shuts it doors after processing more than 12 million immigrants since opening in 1892. Today, tens of millions of Americans can trace their roots through Ellis Island, located in New York Harbor off the New Jersey coast and named for merchant Samuel Ellis, who owned the land in the 1770s.
Ellis Island closes | November 12, 1954 | HISTORY
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SSgt Robert Simonds
ON MY FATHERS SIDE, MY MANY TIMES GREAT GREAT GRAND PARENTS CAME HERE FROM NORWAY, ABOUT 870 TO NORMANDY. FROM NORMANDY TO ENGLAND IN 1066, DEREPARTING FROM ENGLAND IN 1650 AND IT WAS ON AMERICA. ON MY MOTHERS SIDE MY GREAT GRAND PARENTS CAME FROM NORWAY FROM TTHE SAME ISLAND THE VIKINGS AND MY FATHERS DID MY GREATS GRAND PARENTS CAME THRU ELLIS ISLAND IN 1897 AND THEY WERE VERY PROUD OF IT AFTER GETTING THEIR AMERICAN CITENSEN SHIP. BOTH SETS OF GRANDPARENTS LEFT NORWAY BESAUSE OF VERY POUR LIVING CONDITIONS AND WAS VERY HARD AND IN THE COUNTRY RELIGON AT THE TIME THEY HAD TO PAY THEIR TAXES TO AND COULDN'T CHANGE RELIGONS WITHOUT PAYING DOUBLE TAXES..
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My great grandparents and grandmother came through Ellis Island in 1924. My grandmother was 3 years old.
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