This photo shows the Ellis Island Immigration Building. From 1892 to 1954, over twelve million immigrants entered the United States through the portal of Ellis Island, a small island in New York Harbor. Over 100 million Americans can now trace their ancestry in the United States to a man, woman, or child whose name passed from a steamship manifest sheet to an immigration inspector's record book in the great Registry Room at Ellis Island. The buildings were abandoned in the 1950's but after a six-year, $162 million renovation, it reopened to the public as a museum in 1990. It now receives over 6 million visistors a year, many of whom come here from all over America to find their ancestors.