Steve Morse has given genealogists an early holiday gift! Steve has created a new Ellis Island One-Step search form - the gold form. The gold form is capable of searching through the entire twenty-five million passengers in the Ellis Island Database, and it can search on every transcribed field.
His gold form makes his blue and gray forms obsolete. The blue form could search on every field but only for the one million Jewish passengers. The gray form could search for all passengers but only on four fields (name, age, year of arrival, and town). The gold form has these new features: (1) It can search on traveling companions, a feature the blue form had but the gray form did not. (2) The user is able to specify which fields to display on the results page. (3) The user can specify how to sort the results. Although the gold form also makes his white form obsolete, Steve is going to keep both the white form and the gold form available. Because they use different search engines (the white uses the ellisisland.org search engine, and the gold uses Steve's One-Step search engine), they may provide slightly different results. But the gold form should be the form of choice. The white form was superior to the form on the ellisisland.org website, and the gold form is far superior to the white form. The gold form is the third item listed under "Ellis Island Search Forms and Ship Arrivals (1892-1924)" on Steve's website at http://www.stevemorse.org. Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Chapter Representative New York Metro Chapter Association of Professional Genealogists http://www.apgen.org Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
