I agree it's a great site and hard to get into. I finally found I could log in after midnight Sat. and also had success early Sunday morning at around 10AM. Found arrival records for my grandmother, my great grandmother and two of my great uncles. I sure wish someone or some organization would digitize all the other ship's passenger lists. I still have blanks on arrival and naturalization on my grandfather John Robert Konrad. Bob Konrad, Peachtree City, GA On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:20:30 EDT Hedgehog2@aol.com writes: > For those of you who asked about the site and others who may be > interested > here is what I know about it. It is very difficult to get into at > the > present. I think it will just take time for them to get the kinks > out and > for all of the rush to try the site to get over with. I remember > similar > problems getting on when the LDS Family Search site opened. I have > an e-mail > in to the site but still no answer from them. > > Last night after days of trying at all hours I finally did get into > the site > at 2 a.m. and the first ancestor I found included all sorts of > information. > After that I had problems and constantly got the message--no ship's > manifest > available or something similar. I cannot get on at all today. I > continue to > get a message saying: Thank you for your interest but we have an > extraordinary number of visitors and must limit access. Please try > later. > > The address to try is http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/ You may > get the > busy message immediately or you may get an opening page but when > clicking on > the word continue still receive the busy message. If you get > through you > should know it. You do not have to become a member just give your > name and > e-mail I think is all and set up a log-on name and password. Then > you do a > search for your ancestor. > > Dick, I discovered after working with the site for a while that all > ships do > not seem to have an original manifest, but some do. Maybe they are > still > working on adding them. After searching and finding your ancestor > then > seeing the basic info on him or her you can click on ship manifest > on the > left of the screen and get a typed list of all on the ship. When > that site > opens or somewhere along the way, there may be a notation that is > small but > says, view original ship manifest. That is the key to getting more > info. > You will be able to open a photograph of the manifest page. > Depending on the > year, the info varies but may include all sorts of things. Mine > listed who > she was visiting and the address and relationship, height, hair and > eye color > and birthplace. > > Good luck to all. I will be away for the next few days. Keep trying > or put > the address in your favorites and try in a week or so. The site > just opened > the 16th or 17th of this month. > > Susie > > > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > >