Ellis Island museum doubles immigration database in $100M renovation

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – Ellis Island, first an immigration hub and now a historic archive, will now be transformed once again and its museum expanded to include millions more familial records, organizers announced Thursday.

The Ellis Island National Immigration Museum’s database will more than double in size to include 154 million searchable documents from ports of entry from across the United States – so millions more visitors can discover history like when members of their family arrived in the country and where they were headed.