Has anyone heard anything new about the Ellis Island website problem? Anything about it being corrected or improved? Joan On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 12:56 AM, <mizscarlettny@aol.com> wrote: > Dick Eastman referred to *a site,* but not by name. > This was around last Wednesday. > > Those responding took guesses at what site he meant, > then bemoaned the imagined sites. > > Actually, the responses bordered on humorous. > > LDS/Family Search has a wider expanse of indexed > records then ever before and of course someone had to > detail their dissatisfaction. > > It seems that some searchers expect to plug in a first and given > name then be directed to complete "tree" of five or so generations. > > Responders complained about 5-8 sites! > > They should have been around in the good ole early days online, > when you could barely locate any woman, > and were directed to search for related men aka Heads of Households. > > Better yet, when searched using dial up! Then, it could take you > two hours to completely transcribe one family in one census. > > Barb > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joan Parker parker5850@gmail.com > > > I so agree we owe them a big thank you and I agree too with your > comments. > > It's a disaster worse than when Ancestry changed from FTM version 16 to > 2008 (don't remember if that was the year when they totally created at > whole new FTM and it was so hated.) People bought it and returned it in > droves. I didn't make the switch till 2012 and now use 2014. > > I also found as you did on the EI site that what you did once sometimes > you couldn't do again, and what worked for one poster didn't for another. > I was able to change my password, but don't remember the steps, probably > went into my profile. > > Hopefully with enough feedback to the EI people it might bring about a > change, but in the meantime, they certainly didn't do themselves any good > trying to make this a bigger money maker ex: $29 for the certificate, > outrageous. > > Interesting that there has been nothing on Eastman's about this or > Ancestry Insider, unless I missed it as of this writing. Has anyone seen > anything on those two sites about this fiasco? > > ​Joan Parker > Immediate Past President > JGS of Greater Miami, Inc. > *Searching: GOLDBERG/GOULD, GOODSTEIN/GUDSTEIN, > BERGER, JAGODA/YAGODA--Lipno **and Plock, Poland-Russia; Galveston, TX; > Bronx and Brooklyn, NY.* > *PARKER, PINKUS/PINCUS, WINOGRAD, ROSEN, (GERSHO-BEROVNA?)--Brest* > *(Litovsk), Belarus; Grodno, Russia; Bronx and Brooklyn, NY. WEISS, > NEIBERG, DEL PINO--Brooklyn, NY.* > *GELFAND, KATZ, TROCK, KRITZOF-- Berezin/Bresin, Kodima, Minsk, Belarus; > Bronx, NY; Miami and Miami Beach, FL.* > > On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 8:21 AM, jaxon2@juno.com via < > nybrooklyn@rootsweb.com> wrote: > >> Good Morning, First off, I would like to offer kudos to Joyce, Marie, >> Mary and all others that have aggressively taken the Ellis Island (EI) >> folks to task over what has transpired. Thank you for trying to help all >> of us that have used this site in the past and have created 'saved >> searches'. Once I saw the first msg go out, I also tried logging in but had >> no success. I used the EI contact list to send them an email listing my >> concerns. Within 45 minutes I not only had a reply but a new crazy alpha >> password that I cannot change. After logging, I was just amazed at how user >> unfriendly this site has become. I've read all the emails that I receive >> and have tried all of the suggestions - some with success and some where I >> just have not seen the same things others have. For example, on my first >> search I do not get the four images with up/down arrows. I tried saving >> that search - but can't find where it is saved. Yes, it says saved in 'My >> Profile'....but when looking there, th! >> ere is nothing. When I try to 'resave' the search, it says....search >> saved in My Profile. Very frustrating. I am very upset that most of my >> previously saved searches will no longer be available. Additionally, I do >> not use Facebook. Will not use Facebook. If EI is going to post responses >> or provide answers to problems, I feel they should utilize the forum they >> have created and stick with the EI site. Thanx again for all the comments >> that have been posted. Jack C in Florida >> ____________________________________________________________ >> >