Internet access to the records of millions of immigrants to Ellis Island goes online today, giving a major boost to computerized genealogical research and raising the prospect that information about ...

All of my grandparents emigrated from St. Kitts. Records of my paternal grandparents are available on the Ellis Island website between 1912 and 1922, but none of my maternal grandparents can be ...

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 ...

If an ancestor immigrated to America via Ellis Island, do a free search of the passenger list that is available at www.ellisisland.org. More than 25 million arrival records are online. At that website ...

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 ...

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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 ...

My Aunt Kathleen is the family genealogist. She literally wrote the book on our Irish American family. Yet, she hadn't been able to find any record of my grandfather's entry from Ireland into the U.S.

Get in touch with your family roots by visiting one of the most major immigration ports in the United States! Ellis Island is one of Americas most historic sites, and is an excellent way to bring the ...

There is a persistent story in a lot of American families that their last name was changed at Ellis Island, garbled by an agent who simply wrote it down incorrectly. Now, it’s possible that the name ...

1630: The Colonial governors of Nieuw Amsterdam purchased a small, 3.5-acre mud bank in Upper New York Bay, near the New Jersey shore. The Indians called it Kioshk, or Gull Island, after the birds ...