From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Ellis Island Weidners Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 17:58:37 EDT Hello, I ran across a small newspaper article last week that explained how Compaq Computer Co. partnered with The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation to automate the lists of people who immigrated to the USA through Ellis Island between 1892 to 1924, the peak years of Ellis Island immigration. The article says that the records include info on more than 22 million people. The web address is www.ellisislandrecords.org. This site is apparently very busy. It took me three days to finally get in. When I did, I had to register to use the site, but it is free. I guess you could donate if you wanted to, but it isn't demanded. I was interested in my grandfather Berend Gruizinga, who I found listed. It gave me a little info I didn't have for him. I also entered the name "Weidner" in the search engine to see what would come up and the system found 243 Weidners that passed through Ellis Island. The information that you can get is Name (first and last), Ethnicity, Place of Residence (in the old country), Date of Arrival at Ellis Island, Age at arrival, Gender, Mar. Status, Ship name of travel, and port of departure. You can also get a complete list of other passengers that traveled on the same ship, and probably other information. I just thought some of you might be interested. It was new to me. Bern Gruizinga _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com