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THE ELLIS ISLAND IMMIGRATION MUSEUM
We invite you to share your family’s immigration story with us: when your family came to America and why -- the challenges you’ve faced in leaving your homeland and settling here, and how your family has become a part of the American Experience. This offer is for ALL Americans – whether you arrived on the Mayflower, through Ellis Island or just became a new citizen in recent years. Your story will be added to our new Peopling of America® Center planned for the museum. You and millions of other visitors will be able to learn from your story.

If you provide your street address we will be happy to send you a handsome certificate commemorating your name as a contributor to the TELL US YOUR STORY program at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.

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* First Name:
* Last Name:
  Address:
  City:
  State:
  Zip:
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* Email Address:
* Age:
* Immigrant's Country of Origin:
Year of Arrival:
* Tell Us Your Story:
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In order to submit your story, please accept the following terms:

The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. (the “Foundation”) is a non-profit organization dedicated to celebrating and preserving the history of the American immigration experience. The Foundation is planning an expansion of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum to be called “The Peopling of America®” Center. This new Center will tell the story of immigration to America from before the Ellis Island years of 1892-1924 right up to the present day.

We invite you to share your family’s immigration story. Any information you have regarding how your family has become a part of the American experience would be interesting to us and to others.

By submitting your story, you retain ownership of the story, but you grant the Foundation a perpetual, royalty-free license to use the story in any way and in any medium, whether now existing or later developed, and, further, you waive any rights of publicity.

To submit your story, you must be over the age of 18 and have reached the age of majority in your state of residence.

If you agree to these terms, you may proceed to submit your story to the Foundation by clicking the "SUBMIT YOUR STORY" button below.

If you do not agree to these terms, please press the "CANCEL" button below.

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