Hi, John Skibiski <[email protected]> wrote: > Fred...there was a local Northampton, MA family from Minsk, Belarus who > considered themselves White Russians with the surname Anciporowich. Very interesting! I'd never run into that name before. It would mean "son of Ancipor," and that is listed in one of my books on given names as a variant of Onisifor, a rare given name used by Eastern Slavs and coming from Greek _onesiphoros_, "bringing profit, useful." The book says the namedays are 17 January, 20 September, 11 October, 22 November, 15 and 21 December. Much to my surprise, there's even a Wikipedia page for the name Onesiphoros: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onesiphorus It has Belarusian and Russian counterparts with some info on the name in those languages. Apparently Onesiphoros was a Christian referred to in the New Testament, and the Belarusian and Russian pages say he was one of the "70 minor apostles." (The Russian Wikipedia page on the name says the nameday in the Catholic Church was 16 September). So that is how the name came into Christian naming usage. I assume the various namedays listed would mean there was more than one saint by that name. In any case, this appears to be another of the many Christian names of Greek origin that never caught on to any great extent in western Europe or among Poles, but you do run into it among followers of the Orthodox Church. Like many other names of Greek origin, it underwent a certain amount of modification among Slavs, appearing in such forms as Onisifor, Anisifor, Antsifer, and Ancipor. It would be rare to find a Pole going by this name, but a White Russian or Belarusian -- yes, that makes sense. Fred Hoffman

Hi, Maybe this question has been addressed already, but I don't recall seeing information on if it is possible to do what I would like. When searching Ellis Island and finding the manifest you want, is it possible to save the document in a file or print it so you can read it later? I am not a computer person so I don't know if there are ways to do this, if anyone can give me instructions I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Barbara

I haven't been able to figure out how to do this, because basically, they want you to purchase the document.  I know when I have tried to print it or print it from saved file, it is in an enlarged size that doesn't fit on a piece of paper-- like, I only can see the upper left corner of the document.  If you have Ancestry, you can, of course, save, print, and whateveryou want to do with the document. --- On Fri, 2/20/09, Barbara <[email protected]> wrote: From: Barbara <[email protected]> Subject: [PBS] Ellis Island manifests To: [email protected] Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 10:56 AM Hi, Maybe this question has been addressed already, but I don't recall seeing information on if it is possible to do what I would like. When searching Ellis Island and finding the manifest you want, is it possible to save the document in a file or print it so you can read it later? I am not a computer person so I don't know if there are ways to do this, if anyone can give me instructions I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Barbara ------------------------------- 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

I use a free program called win.ptr You can save any page or part of a page or screen shot to a file or send it to your printer. If you save it to a file you can use a photo shop program to resize it. I also have this program on my flash drive so it's handy at the library. -I save the screen shots to the flash drive. It's small enough to fit on a floppy if you still use a floppy drive. Here's the URL http://www.poellingers.com/winptr.htm JD

I used to be able to do a right click on the manifest and print it. In about the past year this has not worked. A message pops from internet explorer that this function has been disdabled and I have yet to figure out how to get it to work I cannot pay $18 or more for every copy of a manifest I want and it is hard to write down everything. I do have the forms for this but it takes a long time to write everying out if you can even firgure out what it says maybe someone else know how to do it Margaret Hicks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:56 AM Subject: [PBS] Ellis Island manifests > Hi, > Maybe this question has been addressed already, but I don't recall seeing > information on if it is possible to do what I would like. When searching > Ellis Island and finding the manifest you want, is it possible to save the > document in a file or print it so you can read it later? I am not a > computer person so I don't know if there are ways to do this, if anyone > can > give me instructions I would greatly appreciate it. > Thanks, > Barbara > > > ------------------------------- > 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