There are plenty of ways to get started — from Ellis Island passenger searches you can do online, to digitized census records available on Ancestry.com and more. Check out our list of ways you ...

Between 1892 and 1954, more than twelve million immigrants passed through the U.S. immigration portal at Ellis Island, enshrining it as an icon of America's welcome. That story is well known.

The "correct" Samuel, according to Welsh records, was born in Wrexham in 1733. Library of Congress Ellis Island, with the Statue of Liberty in the background, stopped being a migration processing ...

Ellis Island’s museum is getting a 21st-century ... historic site also include plans to more than double the number of records available to visitors who hope to trace their families’ stories ...

In the middle of the movie, date doctor Alex "Hitch" Hitchens (Smith) goes on a date with Sara (Eva Mendes) to Ellis Island. The date goes horribly wrong after Hitch accidentally kicks Sara in the ...

Between 1892 and 1954, more than twelve million immigrants passed through the U.S. immigration portal at Ellis Island, enshrining it as an icon of America's welcome. That story is well known.