An Internet archive of Ellis Island immigration records is invaluable, genealogists say. "If your ancestors came here in the late 1800s, it's a wonderful research tool," said Margaret Harmon, a ...

For most immigrants traveling to America, name changes didn’t occur at Ellis Island. The changes were usually made in their home country. In this talk, co-hosted by Untappd New York’s ...

Between 1892 and 1954, most immigrants arriving in the United States passed through New York’s Ellis Island control center. For those fleeing poverty and war, the “island of tears” was also an island ...

Between 1892 and 1924, more than 12 million immigrants (mostly from Europe) bid farewell to their hometowns in search of ...

Between 1892 and 1954, Ellis Island processed 12 million newcomers. About 40 percent of today’s Americans are descended from the men, women, and children who passed through the country’s principal ...

Many U.S. families can trace ancestors who first arrived in America to Ellis Island, where more than 12 million immigrants came through between 1892 and 1924. Now through July 31, the Spokane Valley ...

Reading Georges Perec’s prose poem“Ellis Island” (reissued this month in a slim, Statue-of-Liberty green edition courtesy of New Directions), I felt inspired to coin a word. A wee bit precious of me, ...

Contributor John Fay shares the lesson he learned while searching for his family's Irish ancestry. My Aunt Kathleen is the family genealogist. She literally wrote the book on our Irish American family ...