Greetings: A follow up for many of us who may find it interesting and helpful. 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