Re: Ellis Island passenger arrivals (Czernowitz)

<x-flowed>Bernie:

1. I think you can write to an address given on the Ellis Island
site to suggest corrections.

2. For town name searches, it's also possible to do a search for
town name "starts with" ... or "contains" . . . With Mihowa, you
might try "starts with" Mi or Mih. There might be a large number of
hits to look over, but you might be rewarded, too, for your patience.

3. I don't know what else is planned for Ellis Island's web site.
But there are some pre-1892 passenger listings on the port of Hamburg
emigration site:

http://www.hamburg.de/LinkToYourRoots/english/welcome.htm

These listings (in which the name transcription was much more
accurate in my opinion) begin in 1890 and are complete now through
1900.

4. It may take several minutes to get a response from Stephen Morse'
web site in cases where you are doing a town name search without
entering any surname or first name information. I timed out numerous
times in my searches until I found that it worked quite nicely either
early in the morning or late in the evening, New York time.

All the best,
Bruce


At 11:05 -0400 7/3/02, Bernie Levy wrote:
>Bruce (and Stephen),
>
>I used the various EllisIsland options, from the results screens, in
>attempts to
>get details on passenger records, text and original manifests, etc. Sometimes
>response was fairly rapid and sometimes it "never" came back and I cancelled.
>
>snip



>Regards,
>Bernie Levy
>Stamford, CT, USA
>
>Researching
>LEVY, POSMONTIER (POSMENTYRER, etc.) from Biezun (or Bedzin), Poland
>KAUDERER, BURG, THAU, ALTMAN from Beregomet, Migovo,
> also possibly Russ Banilov, Zalusce, Sniatyn, Otynya, Dzhuriv (Ukraine)
>DREBIN/DREBEN from Taurage & Kretinga, Lith. and Poltava, Ukraine.
>ACKERMAN from Kretinga, Lithuania


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Received on 2002-07-03 11:31:48