I read at Dick Eastman that thanks to Ancestry the gates are wide open for folks wishing to dig around in Ancestry.com's largely expanded database of US ports.

According to MyFamily's press release the collection now counts 100 million passenger records, the time period has been expanded 1820-1960 and also, more ports have been added. Free access is provided through the end of November.

In a quick search I noticed that while the Ellis Island database (through Steve Morse, of course) included the passenger's original settlement, that of Ancestry only showed the nationality of the person I was looking at - at least in a record from the first decade of the 20th century.