>There's an interesting two-page feature in today's USA TODAY newspaper(pages >17A and 18A) about the LDS efforts to index the passenger arrival records >for Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924. The story's title is "Smudges, >scribbles hold Ellis Island's history." When the project is finished >(supposedly by the end of 2000) "Visitors to Ellis Island or its Web site >should be able to leaern an immigrant's ship name and date of arrival, plus >that person's age on arrival, nationality, port of departure, occupation, >and marital status. They'll be able to get a photocopy of the passenger >manifest and a picture of the ship." > >Check it out! > >Allyn Brosz >Washington, DC >Village Coordinator for Alt-Posttal, Bessarabia > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com