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From: "Robert Sullivan" <>
Subject: Re: Major Changes at Ellis Island Site
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:44:02 -0400
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> I have just read some very disturbing news about changes at the Ellis
> Island site. The Save function for the manifests have been disabled
> and Steve Morse's site which gave us some tremendous search
> options has been shut down due to a threat of a lawsuit. I checked
> out the sites and found that this was true.

In a discussion about this on another mailing list, Cyndi Howells (of
Cyndi's List) referred interested researchers to a discussion on the
Council of Genealogy Columnists list:

<http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/CGC/2002-09>;

Bob Sullivan <>
Schenectady County Public Library (NY) <http://www.scpl.org/>;
Schenectady Digital History Archive
<http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/>;

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