Ivanka's post showed herself and her family enjoying their day on the island ... U.S. citizens who can trace at least one ...

Millions of people are using their computers today to trace their family ... The Ellis Island Experience… (sound) "They came from villages and cities in the heat of the day and in the cover ...

And finally, somebody got us the papers to leave Ellis Island. It was a beautiful sight. Beautiful. That was the greatest day of all our lives." By the time the Belarsky family came through in ...

So I put it on the windowsill, let the birds eat it.” This unidentified family, gazing from Ellis Island to their future life in Manhattan and beyond, were photographed in 1925. By this time ...

But that hadn’t happened in his family. After discovering ... new federal immigration depot at Ellis Island. She’d traveled on the SS Nevada on a 12-day journey from Queenstown, Ireland ...

It opened with a great celebration on January 1, 1892, and, on its first day ... In both Cobh and at Ellis Island, there are statues of Annie Moore. Her image and her family’s story, as the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On January 1, 1892, Ellis Island in New York City officially opened. It became one location where millions of immigrants arriving to the United ...

“Yeah. They asked me about the family, whether I was a member of any political party, that type of thing. They made you fill out some sort of statement. I can’t remember what. The contents ...

Around 5,000 immigrants entered the country every day at the height of Ellis Island's activity. The photographs were taken by Augustus Francis Sherman, the chief registry clerk at Ellis Island and ...