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 ...

The first immigrant to disembark on Ellis Island was Annie Moore, a young woman who has gained near-mythic status in the years since her arrival from Ireland in 1892. But it turns out Annie Moore ...

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.

The records available of six of the seven men who I asserted were set at liberty by the Ellis Island officials, although Lieut. Petrosino had declared them to be former criminals who were then ...

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.

Taken between 1900 and the 1920s, they resemble studio portraits, completely dislodged from the busy space of Ellis Island, and showcase the immense diversity of immigrants’ backgrounds.

By MAURICE DUBOIS Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — Ellis Island is best known as the location where millions of immigrants from Europe and Asia arrived in the United States ...