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 ...

The museum looks at Italian migration history, not only for the peak years in the 19th and 20th centuries, but also from prehistoric times to the present. New York’s Ellis Island Museum pays tribute ...

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 ...