I just tried and got an error message but it did go to NARA. I looked again at the URL and believe I found the problem. The URL takes up two lines. The second line is black as it was broken off from the rest. You need to copy and paste the whole URL into your address bar to make it work. The part missing is immigration.html http://www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy/research_topics/immigration.html I did not see the original message so maybe it was all together before and just split in the reply. ----- Original Message ----- From: Frank Gebhart <frankge@sprintmail.com> Date: Friday, September 3, 2004 2:32 pm Subject: Re: [Irish-American] Fwd: NARA: Immigrant Border Crossing Cards > hmmmm....NARA can't find this URL! > > Dan Hogan wrote: > > > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > >> > >> > > > >> Canadian Crossing Cards and Irish Famine > >> Crossing Cards: > >> > >> > http://www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy/research_topics/ > >> immigration.html > >> > >> Danielle Brown > >> dtxn@yahoo.com > > > > > > > > ==== IRISH-AMERICAN Mailing List ==== > > The IRISH-AMERICAN Mailing List Website and Lookup Service > > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ > > Use this to unsub, change your subscription, links, etc. > > > > > > > ==== IRISH-AMERICAN Mailing List ==== > The IRISH-AMERICAN Mailing List Website and Lookup Service > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ > Use this to unsub, change your subscription, links, etc. > >

...navigate it? Sometime within the last few to 10 days, I clicked on an I-A-L poster's e-mail reference to the NARA site, entered the site and, to my great joy, found what I believe to be my gg-grandmother and her father, my ggg-GF, on a ship that arrived in NYC in 1843. Thought I'd bookmarked the site so I could return to it and look for my ggg-grandmother as well, but either I didn't do that or NARA has a Teflon-coated link. In any event, I can't now locate that part of NARA where arrivals are indexed by name and I can't find the I-A-L message that provided me that wonderful, but fleeting, triumphal moment of a few days ago. I did call up the NARA link below but can't find any way to retrieve the ships' passenger lists. Can someone please step me through the process or tell me the date of that e-mail? Many, many thanks. G. Alexander ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >http://www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy/research_topics/immigration.html ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> I did call up the NARA link below but can't find any way to retrieve > the ships' passenger lists. Can someone please step me through the > process or tell me the date of that e-mail? I am going to lead you to the Irish Famine Immigration database at NARA, but I really don't know if that is the one your were referring to: Nara: http://www.archives.gov/index.html Click on: Research Room Click on: Under RESOURCES, Access to Archival Databases (AAD) Click on: Next to AAD the red button that says SEARCH Subject Line: Click on the down arrow which will give you a bunch of subject, click on Irish Click on: Famine Irish Data Files, 1977? - 1989? Click on: Red button that says SELECT This brings you to the search form, good luck. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by Norton

I forgot to say that this NARA Irish Famine database is from the books, The Famine Immigrants: Lists of Irish Immigrants Arriving at the Port of New York, 1846-1851. You would never it from the NARA website, however. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by Norton