A word of caution... don't believe everything you read on the Ellis Island website. I found the ship's registry of my mother, my aunt, and my grandmother at the National Archives. I found their names on the Ellis Island website, and the city from which they originated (Mandersajd) was something totally different on the website. As I recall, there was some other information that was wrong, too... but the listing was definately my relation! Just beware. Woody ----- Original Message ----- From: <Mrbkdb112@cs.com> To: <CZECH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 7:32 AM Subject: Re: [CZ] Passenger Lists | | | Lillian, I believe I just went to google search engine and typed in Ellis | Island and it came up. Then enter your relatives name. If you don't see it right | away, enter other family members names. I found out some of my ancestors gave | different given names than we knew . | | | ==== CZECH Mailing List ==== | All matters pertaining to list administration are exclusively | handled by the List Administrator. If you have personal | problems, questions or suggestions about list mail send an | email to the administrator. The subject is not appropriate | for list discussion. | | |
I, too, have found many errors on the Ellis Island website. One instance, my relative was traveling in 1871. There was a link to "view this ship" which took you to a ship built in 1890 so obviously not the same ship, though it had the same name. Also, the link to view page source took you to a totally different record. I never did find the original record on their website. etc. etc. Just keep your eyes out for inconsistencies while you read ellisisland.org. Cassandra
The transcriptions, like transcriptions of any record, may contain errors. But you can register for free and view a large image of the actual manifest. You only have to pay to get a printed copy mailed to you. I'm not sure how responsive they are to corrections on their transcriptions or image links. Not sure if this has been posted recently or not, but this site has some alternate ways of searching Ellis Island, and other genealogy tools as well: http://stevemorse.org/ Gordon On Mar 30, 2004, at 7:47 AM, Woody Minar wrote: > A word of caution... don't believe everything you read on the Ellis > Island > website. I found the ship's registry of my mother, my aunt, and my > grandmother at the National Archives. I found their names on the Ellis > Island website, and the city from which they originated (Mandersajd) > was > something totally different on the website. As I recall, there was > some > other information that was wrong, too... but the listing was > definately my > relation! Just beware. > > Woody