Why does his name not appear on Ellis Island site?
Why does his name not appear on Ellis Island site?
I have the exact information about my Italian ancestor but he does not come up on Ellis islands website. I know the ship name, port of departure, dates, etc. Does anybody know why? Could he have arrived elsewhere?
- DeFilippis78
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Re: Why does his name not appear on Ellis Island site?
Ellis Island might possibly have his name spelled wrong in their registries.Try a couple of different ways spelling the name. Thats happened to me in my research. And sometimes it doesnt show up on Ellis Island website but it will show up on Ancestrys website. They have a better system of finding peoples manifest in my opinion
Re: Why does his name not appear on Ellis Island site?
trying searching for your ancestor using the stevemorse.org website.
You can even put in the first letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name and a town name, or you can do sound searches of both, or even phonetic searches (the various options are right there on the gold form, which is the first form that comes up on the steve morse website. The name is probably misspelled in the index, as the above poster stated, and you may have better luck tracking down the record that way. You can even search on the website using the ship name and date, or through the missing manifest option using the date, but then you have to search for the specific ship and the date. It takes a bit longer, but you may have success.
You can even put in the first letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name and a town name, or you can do sound searches of both, or even phonetic searches (the various options are right there on the gold form, which is the first form that comes up on the steve morse website. The name is probably misspelled in the index, as the above poster stated, and you may have better luck tracking down the record that way. You can even search on the website using the ship name and date, or through the missing manifest option using the date, but then you have to search for the specific ship and the date. It takes a bit longer, but you may have success.
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Re: Why does his name not appear on Ellis Island site?
Huge numbers of Italian immigrants entered the US at ports in Boston, Philidelphia, and New Orleans. As your question implies, the EllisIsland.org website has data only for persons who entered at that particular port.beauac wrote:Could he have arrived elsewhere?
Additionally, Ellis Island itself only came into existence in 1892'ish. For prior arrivals in New York, see the Castle Garden site at http://castlegarden.org/
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Re: Why does his name not appear on Ellis Island site?
Definitely look on stevemorse.org. I was looking at just the town all by itself but found one relative whose record was indexed wrong. The indexer said he was from Sanafoli, but he was from Pianopoli. It's clear as a bell to me, but not to the indexer. BE ON THE LOOKOUT for stuff like that and maybe even start a record of all the mis-spellings of names, towns, anything you find so you can look again later as your study progresses. I have avoided the missing manifest search... but I know I need to ..... ick!
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Re: Why does his name not appear on Ellis Island site?
beauac What is the information you have... name... etc.
Re: Why does his name not appear on Ellis Island site?
Thanks everyone. I can not imagine he came into another port. They usually stay close to where they arrive and my ancestor stayed on Manhattan his whole life, at least that I know.
Name- Luigi Caruso
Born- 8th November 1876, Salvitelle Italy
Arrived in America- 1898
Vessel- Neustria
Departure from- Naples
Thats all I can think of now. Ill check that site that was reccomended now.
Grazie!
Name- Luigi Caruso
Born- 8th November 1876, Salvitelle Italy
Arrived in America- 1898
Vessel- Neustria
Departure from- Naples
Thats all I can think of now. Ill check that site that was reccomended now.
Grazie!
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Re: Why does his name not appear on Ellis Island site?
Here he is.... Line 12
http://www.ellisisland.org/EIFile/popup ... &line=0012
Indexed as Camso instead of Caruso.
http://www.ellisisland.org/EIFile/popup ... &line=0012
Indexed as Camso instead of Caruso.
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Re: Why does his name not appear on Ellis Island site?
And it was on Ellis Island.... found on stevemorse.org. Indexer error...
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Re: Why does his name not appear on Ellis Island site?
Beauac...
Is Luigi's wife Carmela?
I found a Luigi Caruso in the 1920 Census...
Manhattan District 18.
Spose: Carmela Caruso
Children:
Angelina Caruso - Age 5
Frank Caruso - Age 2
Is Luigi's wife Carmela?
I found a Luigi Caruso in the 1920 Census...
Manhattan District 18.
Spose: Carmela Caruso
Children:
Angelina Caruso - Age 5
Frank Caruso - Age 2
Re: Why does his name not appear on Ellis Island site?
Here is a link to an image of the Census: (check under house #204)
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/6170/caruso.jpg
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/6170/caruso.jpg
Re: Why does his name not appear on Ellis Island site?
So there he finally is. Some incorrect information there but I believe that is him. THANKS!donnawright wrote:Here he is.... Line 12
http://www.ellisisland.org/EIFile/popup ... &line=0012
Indexed as Camso instead of Caruso.
Re: Why does his name not appear on Ellis Island site?
Yeah, thats him with his second wife. Thanks for finding this!VittorioE wrote:Beauac...
Is Luigi's wife Carmela?
I found a Luigi Caruso in the 1920 Census...
Manhattan District 18.
Spose: Carmela Caruso
Children:
Angelina Caruso - Age 5
Frank Caruso - Age 2