In a message dated 4/17/01 6:16:08 PM, kdonnelly@socal.rr.com writes: << I have had no luck accessing the Ellis Island site. Please, am I doing something wrong? Any info. would be appreciated. >> Me too. It's probably swamped. I'd try again either in the wee hours, or in a week or so. Janet C-S

I got on!!!!! I asked for just the surname and got 5 although I have 25 in my database from the microfilm of the index. Only 2 of the 5 matched my database. I was timed out before I could go any further so am trying again and again. I think Janet has the right idea but it is not the middle of the night all over the world. It's only 3:30 PDT so I'm up against all of the East coast people just getting home and trying to get on. Maybe they will go to bed. The Irish are in bed. The Australians are tomorrow already! Ellen Caiside@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 4/17/01 6:16:08 PM, kdonnelly@socal.rr.com writes: > > << I have had no luck accessing the Ellis Island site. Please, am I doing > > something wrong? Any info. would be appreciated. >> > > Me too. It's probably swamped. I'd try again either in the wee hours, or in > a week or so. > Janet C-S > > ==== SHAMROCK Mailing List ==== > ** Messages to the SHAMROCK list > should be sent to > SHAMROCK-L@rootsweb.com **

----- Original Message ----- From: <Caiside@aol.com> To: <SHAMROCK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 11:26 PM Subject: Re: [SH] Ellis Island site I had no difficulty accessing the Ellis Island site I just cut and paste the address, some of the pages appear not to be there, but it's early days perhaps the site will be fine tuned as time goes on and this would prove to be a big bonus for people researching their ancestors in America. My research is for Walsh, Regards Thomas Walsh http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tomwalsh/