Fiona, Take advantage of free acces to this site. Larry, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alanna Scanlon" <alannal@prodigy.net> To: "IRL-CLARE" <IRL-CLARE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 7:38 PM Subject: [IRL-CLARE] List request for help > Below is the paragraph that contains the information for you to access the > place where I found my person's data. Then below is the part of the news > article that tells more about this special offer. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^~~~~~^^^^^^^~~~~~~ > > To commemorate the launch of the collection, Ancestry.com > (http://www.ancestry.com/) offers free access to its entire > "Immigration Collection" through the end of November. Click on "US > Immigrant Collection" on its home page. You will need to register with > the site in order to access the database. And, keep in mind that the > free access is only to the new "Immigration Collection" -- not > to everything else at Ancestry.com. > > ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ > RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine > 15 November 2006, Vol. 9, No. 46 > (c) 1998-2006 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ > * * * > Editor: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist > Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com > Certification: http://www.bcgcertification.org/certification/ > * * * > ROOTSWEB HELPDESK: Check here for announcements: > http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ > * * * > ROOTSWEB REVIEW ARCHIVES: Current and previous editions: > http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/2006/1115.txt > http://e-zine.rootsweb.com/ > ========================================================= > IN THIS ISSUE: > 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: NEWS, NOTES; SOME SITES WORTH SEEING > > NEWS. Ancestry.com recently announced the completion of a three-year > project to digitize and post online all available U.S. passenger lists > from 1820 through 1960. This project covers more than 100 ports of > arrival and 100 million names. The collection includes 7 million > passenger list images and a thousand ship images. > > It's estimated that 85 percent of Americans can find at least one > ancestor in this collection. You'll discover not only the immigrants, > but all travelers -- handy for tracking "birds of passage" (those who > moved between their homelands and the United States multiple times > before settling here for good), ancestors who visited family back in the > "old country," and even some ancestors or relatives who went on > Caribbean cruises in the 1950s, for example, may show up in these lists. > > The Ellis Island records were re-indexed by Ancestry.com and do not > contain the efforts of Ellis Island database (EIDB). By having another > group re-index a record group, errors in the first one may not appear in > the re-indexing. The major advantage to the Ancestry site is that it > indexes arrivals after 1924, which is where the year the EIDB ends. > > To commemorate the launch of the collection, Ancestry.com > (http://www.ancestry.com/) offers free access to its entire > "Immigration Collection" through the end of November. Click on "US > Immigrant Collection" on its home page. You will need to register with > the site in order to access the database. And, keep in mind that the > free access is only to the new "Immigration Collection" -- not > to everything else at Ancestry.com. > > These various databases identify more than 100 million passengers. > Ancestry.com experts, including more than 1,500 paleographers > (handwriting specialists), spent more than 1.8 million hours and typed > 4.5 billion keystrokes to create the fully searchable passenger list > index. The company notes that for the first time, people can look to a > single centralized source online to find all readily available U.S. > passenger list records. It also announced plans to release in December > all Hamburg [Germany] Emigration lists 1850-1934 with, initially, an > index for the years 1890-1912. > > Ancestry.com, which supports RootsWeb.com, has invested more than $100 > million to acquire, digitize, and make searchable online the invaluable > historical records such as the exclusive U.S. census collection > (1790-1930), birth, marriage and death records, photographs, military > records and more. It now has more than 5 billion names in the 23,000 > searchable databases. > > * * * > 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints > ----------------------------------------------------- > SUBSCRIPTIONS. 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