I have been totally unable to access this site even though I have tried from early morn til late eve. Guess their site is completely overwhelmed. Has anyone elsee gotten through and found any Gardners? Shirley granddaughter of Andrew Jackson Gardner great granddaughetr of Edward Gardner > From: [email protected] > Reply-To: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 23:00:22 -0700 > To: [email protected] > Subject: GARDNER-D Digest V01 #72 > > > GARDNER-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 72 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [GARDNER] Ellis Island site update [[email protected]] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from GARDNER-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > From: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, April 22, 2001 4:51 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [GARDNER] Ellis Island site update > >> From The New York Times: > >               April 21, 2001 > >               Ellis I. Web Site Is Deluged by Family Historians > >               By JAYSON BLAIR > > Officials struggled yesterday to increase the capacity of an online database > that > tracks immigrants who were brought into theUnited States through Ellis Island > after the Web site was deluged with visitors. > > Officials at the Statue of Liberty- Ellis Island Foundation, which runs the > American Family Immigration History Center's Web site, said they have more > than quadrupled the amount of computer memory in the servers that run the > searchable database, which went into service Tuesday. Still, they estimate > that more > than one out of every seven users who has tried to visit the Web site has > failed. > > Foundation officials said yesterday that they were working with one of their > sponsors, Compaq Computer, to increase their server capacity > The database, extracted from microfilms of the original > paper manifests, covers arrivals at Ellis Island from 1892 through 1924, when > as > many as 5,000 people a day arrived for processing. The Web site, > www.ellisislandrecords.org, is proving to be so popular that officials at the > center have been unable to accurately count the number of hits per second > since Tuesday. > > "We thought we were prepared," said Peg Zitko, a spokeswoman for the > foundation. "But we have found that the word got out pretty fast and that we > have a >   pretty popular site." > >   The database, which includes records of more than 17 million immigrants who > came >   through Ellis Island, is already powered by 13 servers based in a data > center >   created to handle large volumes of traffic and memory-consuming searches . > >  Ms. Zitko said Compaq officials were considering adding 5 to 10 new servers, > depending on whether the site continues to receive so many hits. > >  By late Tuesday, more than eight million people had completed searches of the >  database, she said. >