>Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 17:07:51 -0500 >Reply-To: Pete Schmidt <paschmidt@utk.edu> >From: Pete Schmidt <paschmidt@utk.edu> >Subject: Re: Ellis Island in USA TODAY >To: GR-GENEALOGY@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU > >If I might add... > >Here is where to find the Ellis Island story on the WEB: >http://www.usatoday.com/news/ndstue07.htm > >and here is USA Todays list of popular Genealogy Database Providers: >http://www.usatoday.com/news/ndstue08.htm > >Pete Schmidt >Knoxville, TN >paschmidt@utk.edu > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Brosz, Allyn, CTR, OSD/PA&E <Allyn.Brosz@OSD.PENTAGON.MIL> >To: GR-GENEALOGY@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU <GR-GENEALOGY@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU> >Date: Wednesday, November 18, 1998 1:00 PM >Subject: Ellis Island in USA TODAY > > >>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