[Genealib] Ellis Island Gold Form

[Joy Rich]

Steve Morse has given genealogists an early holiday gift!

Steve has created a new Ellis Island One-Step search form - the gold
form. The gold form is capable of searching through the entire
twenty-five million passengers in the Ellis Island Database, and it can
search on every transcribed field.

His gold form makes his blue and gray forms obsolete. The blue form
could search on every field but only for the one million Jewish
passengers. The gray form could search for all passengers but only on
four fields (name, age, year of arrival, and town).

The gold form has these new features:
(1) It can search on traveling companions, a feature the blue form had
but the gray form did not.
(2) The user is able to specify which fields to display on the results
page.
(3) The user can specify how to sort the results.

Although the gold form also makes his white form obsolete, Steve is
going to keep both the white form and the gold form available. Because
they use different search engines (the white uses the ellisisland.org
search engine, and the gold uses Steve's One-Step search engine), they
may provide slightly different results. But the gold form should be the
form of choice. The white form was superior to the form on the
ellisisland.org website, and the gold form is far superior to the white
form.

The gold form is the third item listed under "Ellis Island Search Forms
and Ship Arrivals (1892-1924)" on Steve's website at
http://www.stevemorse.org.

Joy Rich
Brooklyn, NY

Chapter Representative
New York Metro Chapter
Association of Professional Genealogists
http://www.apgen.org