Many Americans whose ancestors arrived between 1892 and 1924 at the Port of New York have ancestral records in the Ellis Island Database located at the American Family Immigration History Center, at Ellis Island and online at www.ellisisland.org. As many of you know, Steve Morse's Ellis Island websites have been closed since August 31. You can now get to all of the Ellis Island websites from http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB JewishGen and the Ellis Island Foundation will work together with the developers to ensure that these useful search engines and tools will be continuously available to the public. Alternately, Dr. Morse's 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 viewing an older 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. Happy Hunting... Joan Coordinator Adams Co. WIGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiadams/adams.htm and Marquette Co. WIGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~wimarque/wimarque.htm