Land of Immigrants - colorized Pixs of Ellis Island arrivals

[packman]

Site has more with comments on their clothing and accoutrements (many relating to marital status):

http://www.businessinsider.com/color-photos-of-ellis-island-immigrants-2017-2

[MoonRiver]

1. Where are the Jews?

[hunter]

2. My wife has an Ellis Island immigrant ancestor.

We have photocopies of her Ellis Island documents, even a photo of the ship she arrived on.

My wife also has ancestors who'd been living in America for millennia.

Most of my ancestors apparently jumped off the boats and hit the ground running, eschewing proper documentation. Hell, one of my grandfather's had different birthdays and names on his drivers license, his Social Security, and his military records. In the Wild West you accepted a man at his word and the West was still fairly wild when he was young. His ancestors were "not Irish," which probably means a number of them were.

I love the research that went into these photos. I can easily picture people carefully packing their best clothes away in their luggage at the beginning of their long journeys, and nervously dressing up the day they arrived.

[meadowlander]

3. Mine too.

My great-great grandfather jumped ship off the coast of Nova Scotia and then snuck into the US. We tend to think of illegal immigration as a new phenomenon but it must have been rampant in the 19th century.