Originally, I donated to the Ellis Island site, but never found anyone I search for on it. For one thing, you have to keep subtracting ages from years, to determine if one of 50 possible hits is your family. Too much second thinking. Barb -----Original Message----- From: Pat Connors via [email protected] I had the same impression. I tried to search for a passenger and was totally surprised at the new site. It was impossible to use and I feel pretty good at searching. Horrible site. I actually found the record on Ancestry which is usually harder for me to search for passenger records. Thanks for taking the time to call them. I didn't even try to sign in because I was so disgusted with the site, I just got off. I just tried to sign in to review an immigration file I had found before as > one of the names on that register has popped up in the family and I wanted > to review the manifest. !st I was unable to sign in under my old acct > info. > > I sent a request for my PW but by then it had assigned me a new acct...I > JUST finally got someone to return my call (212-561-4588) and spoke to > someone who is involved in all the website changes and they are anxious to > hear about issues people are having. > > In my mind they have made the site virtually unusable. What they have done > is made it so that people can no longer "snip" and thus copy document info. > > > I explained to them that I figured that was the reason for the change but > that at their prices, no one is going to buy documents, especially when > they cannot get a good enough look at the document to see if it is their > own people. > > Please EVERYONE go to the site, and then let them know how you feel about > these new changes. > > BTW links to these documents from familysearch.org no longer work either. > I let them know that and also tried to get a message through to > familysearch.org as well. > > I am very irritated at this as in my mind, they have made the site so > difficult to get around and made it so difficult to examine the documents > as to have rendered the website virtually useless. PLEASE let them know > what you don't like about the new site as they are still in BETA and can > make changes, but they cannot make changes if they don't know what the > complaints are...so please contact them so they can get this site better > designed for us, the customers. > > Please pass this on to any other lists you belong to > > Joyce > > -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com [email protected] ====NY-Irish Mailing List==== Don't forget to check out the NY-Irish mailing list website. Also, check/add your NY-Irish surnames on the Surname Registry: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYIrishList/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message