A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 12, 1954, Ellis Island officially closed as an immigration station and detention center. More than 12 million ...

The Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration is undergoing a $100 million renovation, which will include new exhibits and accessibility upgrades. The island was used to process more than 12 million ...

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 ...

Ellis Island's successful tenure offers a sharp contrast to the failures of our recent open-border catastrophes.

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 ...

Of the millions of immigrants who came through Ellis Island looking for a new life in America at the turn of the century, around 275,000 of them were treated at the now abandoned Ellis Island hospital ...

Contributor John Fay shares the lesson he learned while searching for his family's Irish ancestry. My Aunt Kathleen is the family genealogist. She literally wrote the book on our Irish American family ...

BRATTLEBORO — The Windham County Genealogy Interest Group will hold its next meeting from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, at the Brooks Memorial Library and on Zoom ...