not on the list

not on the list, originally uploaded by carolyn_in_oregon.

My friends Mark & Salomon looking up names in the computers at Ellis Island. Salomon and I knew that all of our family was here before Ellis Island even opened in 1892. Mark found his grandma's name from 1919 but found out later that it must have been someone else with the same name as his grandma was here long before that.

Supposedly about half of the US population can trace family back through Ellis Island but not us.