The Ellis Island Experience: A Sampling of Stories and How You Can Research Your Own. This item is unavailable.The Ellis Island Experience: A Sampling of Stories and How You Can Research Your Own

The Ellis Island Experience offers insights and tips on the immigrant experience and shares how to document your ancestors' own story at Ellis Island - often without the need to leave the comforts of home. From passenger manifests and naturalization files, to available online resources, author and family history researcher, Barry Nove, also offers several tales he has based on what he has documented as examples of what arriving at Ellis Island was like in the early 20th Century. This print edition includes photos and examples of documents you too can and may find on your own search for your family's Ellis Island or immigration to America experience.

Barry Nove is the author of numerous short stories - many of which appear in anthologies - and has presented on the Ellis Island experience and genealogy topics from coast to coast for more than fifteen years. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, he currently resides in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Follow the author on twitter: @jewishgenealogy. To learn more about him, visit his website: www.barrynove.us.