[Genealogy-SIG] GENEALOGY NEWS 20070102

[jotaito]

GENEALOGY NEWS 20070102

NEXT MEETING:  Thursday night, 4 January 2007, 7 PM at DMA Headquarters, 119 Valley St., Dayton, OH.

Sorry for the late reminder but with the holidays and grandchildren, this is the best I can do.  I hope everyone sees this note in time for it to be useful to them.

Tentative Agenda
- Montgomery County Chapter of OGS Meeting, Saturday, 13 January in auditorium of the Montgomery County Library at 1:00 (no pre-meeting activity) for Show & Tell
- Family History Center's "Jamboree" in February
- Discussion of December's WSU Visit
- Discussion of the news item
- Genealogical Christmas Presents (hardware, software, books, etc.)
- Scanfest
- Someone with Family Tree Maker to tell me about its peculiar generation markings
- Other news from Members


NEWS
Did you hear about the new Ancestry.com Immigration Database that has been put on-line?  Naturally, with all the hub-bub of the holidays, I have lost track of all my references to just what is contained in it; but I did finally remember about it and got on to try it out during the last three days of the free trial.  And I think I had a wonderful success. 

The database, best as I remember, contains records all the way back to the 1700's when ships were bringing over immigrants from the Old World to America; it contains the files from Ellis Island and its predecessor(s) location (the name of which escapes me; something Gardens).  The site lists a number of ports: Baltimore, New York, Boston, Raleigh, New Orleans, etc.  You can search by name, surname, ship, port of departure, port of arrival or date.

I believe it was supposed to be on-line for the entire month of December for free.  I forgot about it until December 28.  I went to check it out and try looking for a relative that has been undiscovered as long as I can remember.  I found them (it appears) in less than two hours.  I shared the information with my other relatives that have been searching for them for years.  They agreed that this was probably the family; but, like always in genealogy, there are now more questions.  No one knows if the whole family came over together or in separate trips.  So, the questions are:  "Who is Gotlieb?", "Where is Michael? And, where is Chush?"  "Where did they go and what did they do after they got off the ship?" 
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jotaito