>Return-Path: <> >Delivered-To: crgreen@risecom.net >Date: 5 Feb 1999 04:27:22 -0000 >From: MAILER-DAEMON@mail.risecom.net >To: crgreen@risecom.net >Subject: failure notice > >Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.risecom.net. >I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. >This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. > ><KellyL@mail.risecom.net>: >Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) > ><wafford-l@sirius.dsenter.com>: >Sorry, I couldn't find any host named sirius.dsenter.com. (#5.1.2) > >--- Below this line is a copy of the message. > >Return-Path: <crgreen@risecom.net> >Received: (qmail 6722 invoked from network); 5 Feb 1999 04:27:17 -0000 >Received: from j1m67.risecom.net (HELO ballistic.com.ballistic.com) (209.197.245.67) > by jacks2.risecom.net with SMTP; 5 Feb 1999 04:27:17 -0000 >X-Sender: crgreen@mail.risecom.net >X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >To: KellyL,BROWN-L@rootsweb.com,COLLINS-L@rootsweb.com,ADAIR@rootsweb.com, > GREEN-L@rootsweb.com,wafford-l@sirius.dsenter.com,DEHAVEN-L@rootsweb.com >From: "Carolyn R. Green" <crgreen@risecom.net> >Subject: Good News for researchers..Rec'd from another List.. > >> >> > >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.) PS, Please feel free to pass this along to other genealogy lists. > > >==== LITHUANIA Mailing List ==== >Have you visited the Rootsweb Archives? >http://www.rootsweb.com > > >