This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------1869E59BEFC1D92D6A8A76B1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------1869E59BEFC1D92D6A8A76B1 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from bl-30.rootsweb.com (bl-30.rootsweb.com [207.113.245.30]) by onyx.xtalwind.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA29497 for <dddgems@xtalwind.net>; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:56:57 -0500 (EST) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-30.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA21669; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 09:55:06 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 09:55:06 -0800 (PST) X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAtAhUAyoBFeulus7FR8A13HnLLf4/vU0wCFAOeV5y8MQ4LJI0Br0b6S9ylIe/b From: Stormin65@webtv.net (Tracy Duncan) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 11:55:49 -0600 (CST) Old-To: ILROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <28960-36B9DF25-584@mailtod-141.iap.bryant.webtv.net> Content-Disposition: Inline Old-Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed; Boundary=WebTV-Mail-1675948077-320 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Subject: [ILROOTS-L] Fwd: [LITHUANIA-L] Re: Ellis Island News Story !!! Resent-Message-ID: <"H0115D.A.AQF.07du2"@bl-30.rootsweb.com> Resent-From: ILROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: ILROOTS-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <ILROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/812 X-Loop: ILROOTS-L@rootsweb.com To: ILROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Errors-To: ILROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com Resent-Sender: ILROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com --WebTV-Mail-1675948077-320 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Got this from one of my other mailing lists. Thought everyone might be interested! --WebTV-Mail-1675948077-320 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from mailsorter-101-3.iap.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.99) by postoffice-142.iap.bryant.webtv.net; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 23:03:56 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: <LITHUANIA-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by mailsorter-101-3.iap.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8/ms.graham.14Aug97) with ESMTP id XAA10811; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 23:03:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA05191; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:50:38 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:50:38 -0800 (PST) From: TerryinSR@aol.com Message-ID: <3330c97c.36b94586@aol.com> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 02:00:22 EST Old-To: gillen@nconnect.net, POLAND-ROOTS@rootsweb.com, LITHUANIA-L@rootsweb.com, TerryinSR@aol.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 2.5 for Windows Subject: [LITHUANIA-L] Re: Ellis Island News Story !!! Resent-Message-ID: <"EHrVd.A.fQB.6MUu2"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: LITHUANIA-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: LITHUANIA-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <LITHUANIA-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/5215 X-Loop: LITHUANIA-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: LITHUANIA-L-request@rootsweb.com In a message dated 99-02-03 18:16:33 EST, you write: > >Why not post the newspaper article for all to see and enjoy... > >As they say in southern Lithuania, > Via con dios... > >Ron Gillen > > ARCHIVE PUTS HUDDLED MASSES ON-LINE - Volunteers scanning Ellis Island Records. (SF Examiner 2/2/99) Climbing the family tree will take a lot less clawing as soon as a nonprofit foundation finishes a more than $15 million project to post Ellis Island immigration records on the internet. By helping people to access information instantly that previously was buried in a bureaucratic quagmire, the project will revolutionize genealogicial research for many of the more than 113 million Americans who already actively pursue their family histories. Officials at the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation in NY, the same organization that gave Lady Liberty a face lift in 1986 without any public funding, estimate that more than 40% of Americans can trace their European ancestry back to Ellis Island. "This is going to be a reference point", said Vern Deubler, Pres. of the Calif. Genealogical Society, which was based in San Francisco for a century before moving to Oakland this year. "It's going to provide people with very important leads". By the end of next year, the foundation hopes, people will be able to enter any information they know about a progenitor and the program will search more than 20 million records for a match. The software will even be able to tolerate misspellings. If a match is found, the researcher can choose to print out a photo of the ship and a copy of the original manifesto that marked the immigrant's arrival. At Fisherman's Wharf on Monday, Stephen Briganti, Chairman of the foundation, said the new database would especially help Bay Area researchers. He said the Bay Area remains one of the major hubs for Eliis Island immigrants and their descendants. Tens of thousands of immigrants came here after arriving through the port, first to fuel the Industrial revolution and later to farm wine grapes. He said first generation travelers from the main Ellis Island years - 1892 to 1924 - still live in the area. Briganti added that Californians' interest in Ellis Island immigration research, based on requests for the foundation's resources, is outstripped only by New yorkers'. The database - which organizers say could be ready by the end of 2000 - will catalog records of almost 20 million immigrants who flooded the tiny NY Harbor island. Until now, those documents have been stored at the National Archives and Immigration and Naturalization Service in the clunky microfilm format. The first phase of the project was to collect and digitize records and install computers at the museum. Now, Briganti said, putting the information on the Internet has become a top goal as well. "We're pretty confident this is going to work," Briganti said. "It's not perfect, but it's light years ahead of going to the Archives." A demonstration of the system showed that a reseacher can enter information in any or all of 11 fields, which ask for personal information such as the subject's name and country of birth, and immigration, like the subject's port of entry. Foundation spokeswoman Peg Zitko said the project got off the ground when a nationwide network of Mormon volunteers agreed to digitize the microfilm information for free. Thousands of volunteers have logged more than 2 million hours; they've entered 3/5's of the data so far. A spokesman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City said the project was important to the church's mission. "We've always been involved in genealogy," said Dan Rascon, "because linking to our family helps us understand who we are and what we may become." Information on the project may be found at www.ellisisland.org on the internet. (And I just want you all to know that I typed this, not scanned, so I hope I get some appreciation out there!!!!!!!! Best, and good night! Terry in Calif.) 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