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 ...
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 ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – Ellis Island, first ...
Spokane Valley museum’s new Ellis Island exhibit lets visitors learn about their ancestors’ journeys
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 ...
On Sept. 18, 1956, an ad in The Wall Street Journal attracted considerable attention. The federal General Services Administration announced that it was “now authorized to offer one of the most famous ...
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 ...
On New Year’s Day 1892, a seventeen-year-old girl named Annie Moore stepped onto Ellis Island and into a new life in America. The teen and her two younger brothers had just completed a 12-day journey ...
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