Podcast: An Immigrant’s Ellis Island Fate Depended on 29 Questions

For a vast number of Americans, our great-grandparents arrived in the U.S. as immigrants in the early 1900’s. There were no airports back then, just a cold, grey ocean to cross.  So all the Poles, Russians, Italians, Greeks, Turks, Swedes, and Germans arrived by steamship.  Poorer immigrants in third class “steerage” were ferried by barge with their meager belongs to Ellis Island, sitting in the shadow of Lady Liberty.  There, with a ship’s manifest number pinned to their clothes, their fate would depend on their answers to 29 Questions.

Ellis Island Immigration Station, New York Harbor, circa 1900
Ellis Island Immigration Station, New York Harbor, circa 1900
Ellis Island Immigration Station's Great Hall
Ellis Island Immigration Station’s Great Hall
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LOST IN HISTORY Blog/Podcast about key forgotten history still relevant in today's world. Paul Andrews also has 5 historical adventure novels, all available on Amazon.

2 thoughts on “Podcast: An Immigrant’s Ellis Island Fate Depended on 29 Questions

  1. My English teacher sent me this link because we had Ellis island as a subject.I found this podcast very interesting and I know a lot more about Ellis island now.Love from germany and keep on doing what you’re doing<3

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