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From: "Val Conway" <>
Subject: Re: Major Changes at Ellis Island Site
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 17:25:29 -0400
In-Reply-To: <002401c2543a$aab525f0$0c01040a@Colossus>


Thanks Bob,

I've joined the mail list and also signed up for the Nu?What's New?
newsletter to keep on top of this since it is very important to my
research.

If you want to take a look at their archives go to:
http://www.avotaynu.com/nu.htm

Val Conway


On 4 Sep 2002, at 13:44, Robert Sullivan wrote:

> > 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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