![]() ![]() assistant secretary of the Interior, said the Church has played a most important role as a partner in making the center possible. Lee Iacocca, chairman emeritus of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, noted in his remarks at the news conference that the work Church volunteers are undertaking to digitize the records is "unbelievable." Steve Briganti, president and chief executive officer of the foundation, said the Church is saving the project millions of dollars by volunteering its resources. Since the project began in 1993, approximately 2 million volunteer hours have been logged - with approximately 753,000 hours so far in 1998 alone. "The American Family Immigration History Center" will open in the year 2000 and will make information on the more than 17 million people who immigrated through the port of New York from 1892-1924 available on computer.Enlisting an army of volunteers, the Family History Department of the Church has been poring through passenger records and ships' manifests from Ellis Island and entering them into a computer database. ![]() The Church is playing a key role in the establishment of a new, state-of-the-art family history research facility in the Ellis Island Immigration Museum in New York, it was announced at a news conference in the museum Oct.
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