NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – Ellis Island, first an immigration hub and now a historic archive, will now be transformed once again and its museum expanded to include millions more familial records, ...

The Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration is undergoing a $100 million renovation, which will include new exhibits and accessibility upgrades. The island was used to process more than 12 million ...

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 ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Tracking ancestors who entered the country through Ellis Island used to mean poring over endless reels of microfilm. Now, it can be as simple as a few clicks of a computer mouse. On ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tracking ancestors who entered the country through Ellis Island used to mean poring through endless reels of microfilm. Now, it can be as simple as a few clicks of a computer mouse. On Tuesday, Ellis ...

Here’s what Donald Trump has to say about low-wage immigrants on his website: “The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high… We need to control the admission of new ...

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 ...

The Wabash Valley Genealogy Society will hold its monthly public meeting on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Vigo County Public Library. The program will include a webinar ...