Subject: Ellis Island records on-line > Someone on another list sent this information to us yesterday and I thought > you would find it interesting. Ellis Island records are going to be available on line. > Effective April 17, 2001 a database housing about 22 million records of > immigrant arrivals through NY Harbor from 1892 to 1924 will be made > available to the public on the internet from records at Ellis Island NY. > Records were extracted from nearly 3,700 rolls of microfilm,which were > then entered into the database. The records can provide information such as > an immigrants date of arrival, age, ethnicity, port of departure and the ship > that brought him to the United States.This was all done with the help of > more than 12,000 volunteers from the Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-day > Saints who worked about 5.6 million hours since 1993 to accomplish this > feat. Access to the data base is free at : > www.ellisislandrecords.org > From "The Long Island Newsday" newspaper Monday 4/16/01> >