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From: "Laurel O'Donnell" <>
Subject: Re: Ellis Island New ON LIne Data Base
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 21:45:16 -0400


Well aside from taking me FOREVER to get into the database from the sheer
masses of people trying to connect, I found it fast and easy to use, though
I saved web pages to refer to at leisure later rather than printing them out.

A feature I really like if you find a person of interest: it is only a
couple clicks to see the entire ship's manifest. Pretty cool. I think the
links are timing out a lot just because the site is so busy.

I live in Manhattan, and would consider going there to test the system, but
there are fees and stict time limits if you do so ...

The site didn't yield much for me, most of my ancestors came to the US via
Boston or Canada, but it did end up showing a few ancestors as crewmembers
which was a nice surprise.

Laurel
CC, Hampden County




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