A wall of scaffolding is surrounding one of the nation’s most treasured national monuments this Fourth of July. The ...

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 ...

Ellis Island is again opening its doors. This time, to the computer age. Earlier this week, the American Family Immigration History Center launched one of its most ambitious projects to date: a Web… ...

NEW YORK (WCBS) — Ellis Island is best known as the location where millions of immigrants from Europe and Asia arrived in the United States, but less known is that it’s also where hundreds of ...

The majority of immigrants who passed through California’s immigration station, Angel Island, were from China and Japan—and tens of thousands of them were detained there.

While waiting on Ellis Island for clearance to begin a new life in America, immigrants at the start of the 20th century may have been approached by a man with a camera.

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Untold stories of Caribbean immigrants at Ellis Island 06:56. NEW YORK - Ellis Island is best known as the location where millions of immigrants from Europe and Asia arrived in the United States ...

Over 12 million immigrants processed here on Ellis Island,” Lean said. Based on the most recent census data, nearly 750,000 New Yorkers reported Caribbean ancestry.