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From: "David W. Weatherill" <>
Subject: UPDATE
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 07:57:42 +1000

Hi Folks;

I have just returned from nearly 4 weeks in the U.S. including 4 days at
Salt Lake City, Utah. I spent most of my days at Salt Lake City in the
Family History Library researching my ancestors and one day in discussion
with one of the managers at the Library in regards to forthcoming records.

The following are now available:

* PAF v.4.0.4 on CD for $5.00 (US). This is the latest version of PAF.

* Pedigree Resource Files Disks 6, 7, 8 and 9. This adds to the packet of 5
CDs currently available.

The following are due out soon. I saw the initial art work for them.

* Western European Vitals - $5.00 (US) Includes vitals for Alpine, Benelux,
French, German, Italian and Spanish Regions.

* Mormon Immigration Index: 1840 - 1890. Mormons coming to the U.S.

Their emphasis is still on getting extraction records (vitals) that are not
part of the I.G.I. out to family historians.

I believe that they are looking at Family Search being available as a
Windows version. Currently it is a DOS version on over 40 CD's.

Work is still underway indexing the 12 million immigrants that came to
the U.S. via Ellis Island in New York. This is a joint project with New
York City and hopefully should be finished by next year.

While in New York I visited Ellis Island and went through the
Immigration Museum that is being developed on the island. It is very
impressive and the New York people involved with the work are to be
congratulated on their work. The displays on the many floors of the main
building provide a great indication just what it was like to make the trip
to the U.S. and the processes (and problems) that the people had to go through.

When researching immigration into the U.S. it must be remembered that
the immigrants could have arrived via a number of ports - Baltimore,
Boston, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia and Galveston. Of the six,
Galveston is probably the least known.

The Texas Seaport Museum has now created a computer database which can
be searched for the 133,000 plus names of immigrants who came through the
Galveston Port. These are the Federal Passenger Arrival Records for people
who came directly to Galveston from a foreign country. There are some gaps
in the records from 1874 to 1891.

You can search the database at <www.tsm-elissa.org>, but there is a
search cost of $10.00 per name.

I hope that the above is of some interest to members of the list.

Kindest regards,

David
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