"Morse Adds New Capability to Ellis Island Database Search

When the Mormon volunteers extracted the Ellis Island Database and found

they could not read the initial letter of an immigrant's last name, they

substituted ellipses (...) for the letter. This consigned your ancestor to

oblivion because the ellisisland.org site does not permit searching with

non-alphabetic characters. Stephen P. Morse has resolved the problem by

permitting searches without a last name at his One-Step site,

http://stevemorse.org."



source:

Nu? What's New?

The E-zine of Jewish Genealogy

Gary Mokotoff, Editor

Volume 6, Number 1 | February 13, 2005

http://www.avotaynu.com/nu.htm