As I read the postings about the mistakes being found on the Ellis Island site.... may I repeat what I sent a day or so ago to this very list? Indexes- of any kind, book, microfilm whatever- are done by HUMANS and mistakes are made. Your only RELIABLE way to search is to search the films yourself, which is rather easily done. Yes, the microfilm indexes described on my Helpful Hints page have mistakes too, but they are (in my opinion) more reliable than a transcribed database on the internet. I haven't found nearly as many mistakes and omissions in my work with them (and I"ve done quite a bit) than in my recent use of the ellis island database. So PLEASE keep this in mind, and tell the Ellis Island people. They are the only ones who can do anything, tho in reality they probably won't do any corrections (I watched people from my local FHC do these transcriptions and I'd have to say, as nice as they were, I could see problems coming with this.... even tho the LDS said this was double and triple checked, this is a prime example of how hard a database like this is to do, it's just open to too much interpretation of letters etc. And many of the volunteers had no genealogy training at all) So please, let's not get into a big discussion on this here. It's just not the right place to do so. All we can say is "user beware", and if you seem to find something, check it against the original, because you really can not count on this for true data based on how many mistakes are being reported on all kinds of lists etc. Maura <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Maura Petzolt mpetzolt2@webtv.net <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> SHAMROCK ROOTS homepage http://community.webtv.net/shamrockroots/SHAMROCKROOTS Helpful Hints for Successful Searching http://community.webtv.net/mpetzolt2/helpfulhints