Genealogy Roundup, November 19
Art installment on Ellis Island with the best photos I've seen from it so far. Photo taken one day before this 98-Year-Old Veteran died, has moved America.
Genealogy Round Up, September 22
These cousins lost touch when she took the boat to America in 1928. American Legion honors 104-year-old World War II veteran.
Genealogy Round Up, July 21
Bruce Springsteen accepts Ellis Island award with his mother & aunts, common names around the world and Cynthia Nixon on 'Who Do You Think You Are?"
Stephen A. Briganti wins the 2014 Friend of History Award
Stephen A. Briganti, the president of the Statue of Liberty–Ellis Island Foundation, wins the 2014 Friend of History Award.
Genealogy Round Up, March 4
Ohio 8-year-old turns $20 into priceless gift, then-and-now images and 18th-century London paintings meet Google Street View – in pictures.
The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation Board
The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. announced today that Christopher “Kip” Forbes and Jeffrey Gural have joined its Board of Directors.
Smolenyak Classic: Finding Knute Rockne in the Ellis Island Database
The manifest that included Knute Rockne had been difficult to find. I decided to have a go at finding the record myself, and I discovered that he was indeed remarkably well-hidden in the database.
Seton Shields Genealogical Grant Awarded to Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation
I hold a special place in my heart for Ellis Island, so when it was badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy, it seemed a fitting time to make a donation to the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation
Genealogy Round Up, February 7
Annie Moore of Ellis Island, Great Swedish Adventure and Emigration Isle web documentary illustrates periods of Irish emigration over the past 200 years
Michelle Obama’s Ancestors: Purnell Shields
This is the seventh in a series about the ancestry [...]