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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ventured out in a rowboat to make a 16 mm film about an abandoned space nearby: Ellis Island. In the early 1970s, two high school filmmakers ventured out in a rowboat to make a 16 mm film about an ...