I have drafted a letter to the Ellis Island board of directors. When our genealogical community is so upset with all the changes it is important we let them know. The more people who write the greater the impact. Please email me off list at my regular address ([email protected]) and simply put Ellis Island in the Subject line. I will email you a copy. Many people have trouble writing letters but wil send one if someone provides a sample and makes it a bit easier. It is good if you personalize the letter a bit, but you don't have to. The important thing is we let them know how unhappy we are with the new site. BOD's look at numbers! Also if you have a Facebook account, plenty of people are logging in their complaints as well, but I don't think that is as effective as writing to the BOD. The BOD is wo makes all these decisions, not the publicity person on Facebook. If you are as upset about these changes as i am , email me and let's show them how many of us are not happy. If you have not visited the new website you really have to to see just how messed up the new site is...It is next to impossible to find anyone now...Test it by looking for people you know are there, and also look for a name or two that you don't know if they are there...see how difficult they have made it just to read the darn manifests! If we are to get them to fix this mess they have created we need to speak up folks...they need to hear from many of us! Joyce -- Researching Stephenson/Stevenson, Fleury, Heald, Lindelof, Young, Rubino, Cammarota, Mandracchia, Vaiarelli, Mulhern, Johnson, Haight, Erickson, Munson, Northrup, Sears, Camp, Gunn, Allen, Gorham, Plumb, Beard, Rogers, Eliot, Briscoe, Bradley, Mix, Wilmot, Pritchard, Mew, Stone, Sparke, Bayley, Bailey, Redfield, Redfin, Howland, Tilley, Sturgis, Hinckley, Kirk, Norton, Gerard, and many more...