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. You received this newsletter because you are subscribed to the RootsWeb Review. or visit our newsletter management center any time at: http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ * * * REPRINTS. Permission to reprint articles from RootsWeb Review is granted unless specifically stated otherwise, provided: (1) the reprint is used for non-commercial, educational purposes; and (2) the following notice appears at the end of the article: Previously published in RootsWeb Review: 15 November 2006, Vol. 9, No. 46. * * * *