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From: Gary Alt <>
Subject: Re: [GV] Searching Ellis Island arrivals
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:28:06 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <001f01c2289b$c3ac8320$683a77cc@pii266>


I get a deadend also.

Gary Alt

--- KLM <> wrote:
> Can others access this link? I'm getting a deadend.
>
> Karleene
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg and Connie Armstrong"
> <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 9:26 PM
> Subject: [GV] Searching Ellis Island arrivals
>
>
> > I want to share a "success story".
> >
> > When the Ellis Island Web site (address below) was
> first announced, I read
> that not all manifests for all ships had been
> transcribed as yet, and
> therefore we shouldn't worry if we couldn't find our
> ancestor at that time.
> I've been checking periodically ever since for my
> Grandmother Katharina
> Keller, without any success. I had even played
> with the "other" Ellis
> Island website (address below) and still I couldn't
> find her. I knew when
> she arrived in New York, and even the name of the
> ship, but something was
> wrong, somewhere.
> >
> > I decided to sit down and try every possibility I
> could think of, using
> the Stephen P. Morse website which enables users to
> enter various
> combinations of information, therefore maximizing
> the possibility of a
> "hit". When I tried using only the initial K for
> her first name and using
> only the initial K for her last name along with the
> ship name, i found her!
> All the information was just exactly as my
> Grandmother had stated on her
> Declaration of Intent to become a Citizen, except
> that her last name had
> been spelled Ketler, instead of Keller! When I
> looked at the actual
> manifest, the name had been written very clearly,
> and so it must have been a
> clerical error. I had previously tried several
> spelling variations, but
> never Ketler!
> >
> > My thanks to Stephen Morse for his efforts! I
> would not have found my
> Grandmother otherwise. I hope that my story will
> inspire others to try
> again!
> >
> > Does anyone know if there is someone at the Ellis
> Island site who wants to
> be notified when errors are found?
> >
> > Connie Geringer Armstrong
> > Fresno, CA
> >
> >
> > Both addresses:
> > ellisislandrecords.org
> > http://home.pacbell.net/spmorse.ellis/ellis.html
> >
>
>


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