Ellis Island Immigrants' Oral Histories Online

NEW YORK (AP) - History buffs interested in Ellis Island's immigration story are getting a chance to hear all about it ’ from the people who lived through it.

A collection of oral histories from about 1,700 people who passed through Ellis Island starting in the late 1890s is going online.

The histories had been available to visitors at the immigration museum on Ellis Island, but this is first time they'll be available to a wider audience. They can be found in the immigration section of the Ancestry.com website.

The geneaology website reached out to the National Park Service, which did the interviews, to host them on the Internet.

Over 12 million people passed through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954.

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Online: www.ancestry.com/immigration