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    1. [POLAND] LDS Family Search
    2. Debbie Greenlee
    3. I know a lot of people are excited about LDS digitizing records however, I found a problem. This is just a heads-up that it might be a good idea to check other image sources when using Family Search. Family Search is using images provided by Ellis Island web site. I am sure this is because LDS was instrumental in transcribing the Passenger Arrival Records for the Ellis Island Web site. Here's the problem, at least in one case. If you follow the Family Search link to an original manifest image, which is provided by Ellis Island web site, you can barely read anything on the manifest. If you use ancestry.com to search for the same Passenger Arrival Record you find that the actual manifest page is almost perfect and very easy to read. Family Search: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html?datestamp=1205453198656# Using the name Ignacz Chociaj (which is an incorrect transcription) takes you to this manifest image: http://www.ellisisland.org/search/shipManifest.asp?pID=102635050569 Click on "CLICK TO ENLARGE MANIFEST" Using ancestry.com search on the name Ignacz Chociaj, arrival 1903 at the port of New York. (the given name is still transcribed incorrectly). Note the incredible difference between this image and the one provided by Ellis Island web site. I am not suggesting that ancestry.com is the best or that anyone should buy a subscription to that database. I'm merely making an observation. Debbie

    12/09/2008 04:58:38