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For more than six decades the chief gateway into the United States, Ellis Island sits in New York Harbor between Manhattan and the New Jersey shore, a short ferry ride from the Statue of Liberty. Between 1892 and 1954 some twelve million immigrants passed through its halls, and it is estimated that a large share of Americans today can trace at least one ancestor to its registry, which makes the place as much a family touchstone as a historic site. The island was small and largely artificial, en...