Steve Morse site reopens with JewishGen's Support Outstanding and important news for manifest users! Please send Steve Morse spmorse@pobox.com your encouragement and support. He has added another important new feature, searching by village name. Bill Tarkulich FROM STEVE MORSE, 10/20/02: "A few weeks ago I sent out the message below saying that I'd reopened many of my Ellis Island One-Step websites. As you've probably discovered, the sites were closed down again a day later. Now I am able to reopen all of them plus some new ones, and can assure you that they will remain open this time. I'm sorry for all the confusion. You can now get to all of my Ellis Island websites from http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB Alternately, all of my websites (Ellis Island plus others) can still be accessed from http://home.pacbell.net/spmorse Several new features have been added and many improvements have been made. The most exciting one is the ability to search for any passenger by town of origin and/or by similar-sounding names. If you still get the "site is down" message, that means you are fetching a stale version of the page. If that happens, hit your refresh or reload button several times, both with and without the shift key depressed, to make sure that you are getting the latest version. Thank you once again for all your support. -- Steve Morse" FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Susan E. King (281) 535-2200 susan.king@jewishgen.org JEWISHGENR AND ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION TO PROVIDE ENHANCED SEARCH OF ELLIS ISLAND DATABASE Houston, TX - JewishGenR, Inc. and The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. have announced a new working relationship to provide enhanced search capabilities for the Ellis Island Database. These One-Step search tools developed by Dr. Stephen Morse with assistance from Michael Tobias and Erik Steinmetz, will serve as a valuable aid to the thousands of individuals researching their families who came through the Port of New York and Ellis Island between 1892-1924. Over 40% of Americans have ancestral records in the Ellis Island Database located at the American Family Immigration History Center(tm) at Ellis Island and online at www.ellisisland.org. JewishGen and the Foundation will work together with the developers to ensure that these useful search engines and tools will be continuously available to the public. They are currently available at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/eidb/. JewishGenR, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) United States tax exempt, non-profit corporation founded in 1987. It has become the primary internet resource connecting the past to the present for the future for those interested in their Jewish heritage. JewishGen is provided as a public service and is based on the concept of free sharing of information. It is funded by voluntary financial and material donations. The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization founded in 1982 to raise funds for and oversee the historic restorations of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, working in partnership with the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. In addition, the Foundation has created an endowment to maintain the monuments and created the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, The American Immigrant Wall of Honor and The American Family Immigration History Center. # # # ______________ Bill Tarkulich