‘Best’ Addressed

Since I lecture on genealogy research on the Internet, I read with great interest “Simply the Best,” your 101 Best Web Sites (August 2003). I was interested to see the new sites that made the list this time. I would offer two significant additions to some information in the article. The Hamburg Link to Your Roots Web site <www.hamburg.de/fhh/behoerden/staatsarchiv/link_to_your_roots/english> allows researchers to look for passengers who departed from that port from 1890 to 1902, although the digitized images cover fewer years. Besides the Ellis Island site, researchers should be aware of Searching the Ellis Island Database in One Step <www.jewishgen.org/databases/eidb/ellis.html> which permits searches that can be narrowed by age, gender, first name, year of arrival, ship's name and more. This provides much more flexibility and has led to discoveries not made on the Ellis Island Web site.