The American Family Immigration History Center at Ellis Island provides access to records of the passengers and ship crew members who came through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924. This site receives heavy usage.
Additional material is available for a fee.
It offers free access to such information as the Social Security Death File Index, which is like a national obituary index. This index includes more than 60 million Americans who held Social Security cards and died after 1962. The Internet Genealogy and Local History Resource Links includes outstanding genealogy sites, such as the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Rootsweb, U.S. Genweb, and World Genweb. This site provides links to sources for African American genealogy from across the United States. This is a gateway to thousands of genealogy web links.