Ellis Island Site

Lorna Allison · Post by **Lorna Allison** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 2:34 pm

Tarnation

I take it that the Ellis Island search site has been taken over and now instead of spending happy hours searching free of charge I have to pay "Findmypast" for every transcript/image. What a shame - that was the one site I had a good relationship with ie I could actually find people.

My "lost boy" has morphed into John Charles Watkins, having been "adopted" age 13 after 10 years in the Pontypool Workhouse, by a Charles Watkins. He disappears again after 1901 and I envisaged settling down to try the Americas. Oh well, if I had only known that was on the horizon before taking out another month of Ancestry

Never mind, this boy is too important to count the cost - must give husband some nice meals to cushion the blow.

Lorna

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 4:30 pm

Hi Lorna
The Ellis Island site still seems to be "as was" for me - free search and manifests
http://www.ellisisland.org/

Best wishes
Lesley

Maisie · Post by **Maisie** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:05 pm

Hi Lorna

No problem for me either. Only one John Charles Watkins. Entered USA 21 June 1924, aged 41 years 3 months so right age, resident in Oxton, wife Elsie but alas, born Liverpool.

Lots of just plain John Watkins if you can plough through them all.

Good hunting

Maisie

Lorna Allison · Post by **Lorna Allison** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:14 pm

Hi Maisie & Lesley

Well, I don't understand that at all but yes, you are right, I am back into Ellis Island as well. Three cheers

and thanks for that.

Regards

Lorna

Lorna Allison · Post by **Lorna Allison** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:39 pm

Hi Maisie

Just a thought. There couldn't have been a misunderstanding over the birthplace could there - writing down Liverpool instead of Pontypool? Clutching at straws again

Lorna

Maisie · Post by **Maisie** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 9:44 am

Hi Lorna

Snap - thought of that myself after I sent the post, but there is a John Charles Watkins born 1883 in West Derby (which is in Liverpool) on FreeBMD.

Looks like back to the drawing board.

Maisie

Lorna Allison · Post by **Lorna Allison** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:00 pm

Thanks Maisie

Yes, that is it exactly. Maybe Anne could arrange a seance with her Glasgow ghost and see if she would do researches in the afterworld

Bye for now

Lorna

Post by **Anne H** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:15 pm

Lorna wrote:

Maybe Anne could arrange a seance with her Glasgow ghost and see if she would do researches in the afterworld

Happy to oblige, Lorna...after I get my long list of questions answered, of course!

Regards,
Anne H