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 ...

Planning to look into your family's history as a 2025 resolution? There are plenty of ways to get started — from Ellis Island passenger searches you can do online, to digitized census records ...

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 ...

Immigrants in 1902 entering the United States through Ellis Island Names communicate a lot of information, which is subject to both interpretation and misinterpretation. This discussion of last names ...

On Sept. 18, 1956, an ad in The Wall Street Journal attracted considerable attention. The federal General Services ...

About 30 local elected officials, business and nonprofit members from the Hudson Valley participated in the sixth convening of the Ellis Island Initiative in the state to find solutions to help ...