1. Save xls / zip file to your computer.
2. Open the file.
3. Tip (See #6) - when you click on one of the hyperlinks for the first time you will be taken to the Ellis Island Home Page.
4. Enter User ID
5. Enter Password
6. BE SURE TO CHECK THE BOX THAT SAYS "REMEMBER MY INFO."
7. If you do that then you can easily flip back and forth through the spreadsheet and Ellis Island records. This will save you countless hours of research time. This is Excel, so therefore you can sort or manipulate the headers, data, etc in whatever way you want.

Before downloading a large file, why not download this sample file to see how it works. Note that every 3000 records is about 5 meg. This shouldn't be a problem for high speed users. Zip Files will download much faster. The end result is an Excel File.

Sample_File.xls

To Date there are about 280,000 Italian Surname Records in xls & Zip Format.Every 3000 Records is about 5 meg if xls. Zip are much smaller.

Surname

Records

XLS - Zip Files