It was, for decades, a gateway for many of the millions of people who immigrated to America. Ellis Island is today a part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument (the statue is on Liberty Island).

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration renovation The national monument to immigration at Ellis Island is in the latter part ...

Millions passed through Ellis Island, but not everyone moved on. A look inside the inspections, hospital stays and records that shaped their journeys.

Between 1892 and 1954, more than twelve million immigrants passed through the U.S. immigration portal at Ellis Island, ...

I’m a descendant of immigrants. Most likely you are, too. When the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, 2.5 million colonists and enslaved people lived in what would eventually become the ...

NEW YORK (InvestigateTV) — Ellis Island served as a point of entry for millions of immigrants during one of the largest migration periods in world history. Historians say Ellis Island was founded in ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Peter Urban gave a tour of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum in New York City and showed how some 12 million immigrants were processed in the ...

My great-grandmother's interview is one of nearly 2,000 American stories preserved at Ellis Island.

The national monument to immigration at Ellis Island is in the latter part of a $117 million makeover as the U.S. marks its 250th anniversary this weekend. Ellis Island is just over a quarter-mile ...