Both of these entry points to the US in New York operate extensive databases on Internet and one can get a lot of information from them.
America's first immigration center CastleGarden.org is an educational project of The Battery Conservancy. This free site offers access to an extraordinary database of information on 12 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. Over 100 million Americans can trace their ancestors to this early immigration period.
Ellis Island operated between 01 Jan 1892 and in 1897 a fire destroyed the facilites (and archives) closing the processing areas off until 1900 when it reopened Operating unil the 1930's, it eventually was used only for the detention of illegal aliens.
Both sites have been of great use to us in our search for data on our ancestors!
If you don't find your ancestors here, you can also try entry points through Canada and the West Coast.
And I fully recommend JewishGen.org, another wonderful resource!
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