STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.—Victoria MacKenzie-Childs recently replaced the vintage stove in her kitchen with a new stainless-steel grill. “I was just ready for a change,” explains Victoria, whose ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 12, 1954, Ellis Island officially closed as an immigration station and detention center. More than 12 million ...

A version of this story was originally published in 2019. When history professor Mark Washburne wanted to learn about his grandmother’s arrival in the United States as an infant, he went to Ellis ...

A wall of scaffolding is surrounding one of the nation’s most treasured national monuments this Fourth of July. The scaffolding surrounding part of Ellis Island is visible from Liberty State Park, a ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island were open for visitors on Monday, with New York state picking up the tab for federal workers. The two sites have been ...

NEW YORK — Rock band Foreigner is celebrating their golden anniversary at the same destination millions of foreigners first came to when arriving in America. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers, known for ...

It was decades in the making, but the archive of personal stories and recollections of 1,700 people who immigrated to the United States via Ellis Island in the first half of the 20th century is ...

When we genealogists think of immigration through New York City, which was the gateway for millions of our American ancestors, we tend to envision the huge facility Ellis Island, now a museum and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. My writing partner Rick Parks and I wrote the Ellis Island scene because friends of mine who live ...

Rock band Foreigner is celebrating their golden anniversary at the same destination millions of foreigners first came to when arriving in America. With the Statue of Liberty in the background, the New ...