Ancestry.co.uk - Search Immigration Records FREEBIE

Ancestry.co.uk - Search Immigration Records
free to use until 30 November 2006 and with much more a vast improvement on the original Ellis Island site

for example: Exact Search Results - New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957

below is a family known to me from Ellis Island
illustrating the original migration in 1921 when Anna was listed under her maiden name
the childen born in USA were US citizens from birth

I am in touch with a descendant of Mrs. Gladys Bobo

View Record	Name	Arrival Date	Estimated Birth Year	Gender	Port of Departure	Place of Origin	Ship Name	View Ship Image	View Passenger List
View Record	Anna strømsholt	14 Mar 1931	abt 1901	Female	Copenhagen	Scandinavian	Frederik Viii
View Record	Gladys strømsholt	14 Mar 1931	abt 1924	Female	Copenhagen		Frederik Viii
View Record	Otto strømsholt	14 Mar 1931	abt 1900	Male	Copenhagen		Frederik Viii
View Record	Walter strømsholt	14 Mar 1931	abt 1928	Male	Copenhagen		Frederik Viii
View Record	jørgen otto strømsholt	19 Apr 1921	abt 1900	Male	Copenhagen	Scandinavian	Hellig Olav

on my own site

RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: WATKINS LAPHAM 2005: "12. Jørgen Otto Strømsholt (Jørgen (født Pedersen i 1911 købt) Strømsholt3, Karen Marie Hansdatter2, Hans Frederiksen1) was born 16 JUN 1899 in Store Heddinge Stevns Præstø - Saværket Vestergade Storehedinge Købsted (baptised Petersen), and died 30 DEC 1952 in 3.48am Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix Arizona USA (Jurgen Strumsholt in Ellis Island index). He was buried 2 JAN 1953 in Grenwood Cemetery Phonix Arizona.

He married Anna Nielsine Hansen 1922 in USA, daughter of Lars Peter Hansen and Ane Marie Nielsen. She was born 4 MAR 1900 in Frøslev Mark, Frøslev, Stevns, Præstø, Denmark, and died 15 JAN 1991 in Phoenix, Maricopa, AZ, USA.
	Children of Jørgen Otto Strømsholt and Anna Nielsine Hansen are: + 34 i. Gladys Anna Stromsholt was born 28 OCT 1922 in New York USA. 35 ii. Walter Otto Stromsholt was born 17 OCT 1927 in Staten Island, New York USA, and died 28 OCT 1948 in 1000 am Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona USA.

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Nov. 8, 2006. 09:05 PM

ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON — Tom Cruise's great-great grandfather, Dylan Henry Mapother, emigrated to Louisville, Kentucky in 1850 from Flint, Wales. Halle Berry's grandmother, Nellie Dicken, was nine months old when she sailed from Liverpool, England in 1912 onboard the Merion to settle in Philadelphia. Mary MacLeod, mother of real estate mogul Donald Trump, travelled from the Isle of Lewis, Scotland to America onboard The Transylvania in 1935.

The website is part of a global network of genealogy sites providing over five billion records to the public.These are a few of the stories revealed in a list of passengers on voyages from the British Isles to the United States between 1820 and 1960 released Thursday by a British genealogy website. Ancestry.co.uk launched over a 100 million U.S. immigration records from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, tracing the ancestors of some of America's most famous names.
The lists reveal the journeys of Scottish men who became symbols of success in American business, including the founders of Buick, Campbell's soup and Forbes magazine. "Without question, the millions of names in the Ancestry passenger lists represent brave and colourful individuals who played a significant role in shaping what has become modern America," the website's managing director Simon Harper said.
The records show date, departure port, destination, age, nationality, occupation, accompanying family members and purpose of travel among other criteria. Liverpool became the most popular departure point for Irish and British immigrants in 1818, according to records from Ellis Island, the historic immigrant portal in New York harbour.

my thanks to:-
MSN Entertainment News
and via google
TheStar.com - Ancestry website traces roots of Trump, Berry