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RAIN 4/19: Ellis Island, Genghis Khan, Philippines and Cuba



Los Angeles Times 4/18/01
Bell Gardens, Cudahy raided in sweep by D.A.
http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20010418/t000032793.html

by Richard Marosi and Jose Cardenas
Large teams of district attorney's investigators raided city halls of two
southeast Los Angeles County cities Tuesday, searching offices for documents
and records as part of a wide-ranging public corruption investigation.
Sweeping into Cudahy City Hall shortly after it opened, investigators
ordered employees out of their offices and sealed off the building from the
public for much of the day. At nearby Bell Gardens City Hall, investigators
executed search warrants.



Boston Globe 4/18/01
Ellis Island portal opens door to past
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/108/nation/Ellis_Island_portal_opens_door_
to_past+.shtml

by Hannah Wolfson
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY - Tracking ancestors who entered the country through Ellis
Island used to mean poring through endless reels of microfilm.
Now, it can be as simple as a few clicks of a computer mouse.
Yesterday, Ellis Island officials and the Mormon Church introduced a
database containing arrival records for the 22 million immigrants who
entered the port of New York from 1892 to 1924.



Boston Globe 4/17/01
Indians lament loss of clean air and water
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/107/region/Indians_lament_loss_of_clean_a:.s
html

Associated Press
ROCKPORT, Maine (AP) Wayne Newell remebers the days when fish were so
plentiful in Passamaquoddy Bay and the Penobscot River that he could scoop
them up with a pan.
Newell, an elder of the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Indian Township, said when he
was young, the tribe could gather medicinal plants in the woods and water.
But now the fish and plants are gone, and the tribe blames the paper
industry for the loss.
The Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes are involved in a legal battle with
three paper companies over tribal records and water regulation.



Boston Globe 4/17/01
Computers supplant old records in nine-story building erected in 1902
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/107/region/Computers_supplant_old_records:.s
html

Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) A nine-story building erected in 1902 as northern New
England's first fireproof storage facility is finding new life as a
high-tech data-handling center.
The building on Cumberland Avenue is being retrofitted as Maine's first
''carrier'' or ''telco'' hotel, a home for independent companies that link
clients to the Internet and telecommunications networks.
Old department stores and storage buildings are prime candidates for such
reuse, and the former Confidential Records building with 3-foot-thick walls
and 14-foot-high ceilings has features that make it especially desirable.



The Cavan Connect 4/15/01
Vindication
http://www.cavanconnect.com/

Bailieborough born Captain James Kelly has a very good week, having his
reputation vindicated after 31 years of official denial. As an army
intelligence officer in 1969 and 1970 he was part of a covert Government
scheme to import arms for the IRA, but when the scheme went wrong and became
public knowledge the Government denied any official involvement and he
became the fall guy.



Hartford Courant 4/17/01
Jovin files ordered released
http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?fromspage=all/home.htm&categoryid
=&bfromind=585&eeid=4399687&eetype=article&render=y&ck=&userid=1&userpw=.&uh
=1,0,&ver=2.8

by Gary Libow
The state Freedom of Information Commission Monday ordered New Haven police
to hand over its extensive investigative file into the 1998 killing of a
Yale senior for review by a hearing officer and other staff members.
Hearing officer Barbara Housen gave police and New Haven's assistant
corporation counsel two weeks to provide the estimated 10 to 12 binders of
investigative documents into the fatal stabbing of Suzanne Jovin.
The Courant and Jeff Mitchell, a high school friend of suspect James Van de
Velde, both filed complaints charging that New Haven Police Chief Melvin
Wearing violated FOI laws by withholding documents outlining the
investigation into Jovin's death. Jovin was found stabbed the night of Dec.
4, 1998, about 2 miles from campus.



Daily Herald Tribune (Canada) 4/17/01
Musuem archiving project complete
http://www.bowesnet.com/dht/Z04_1704history.html

The Grande Prairie Museum has announced the completion of a project by the
Grande Prairie Regional Archives to arrange 14 small archival collections
donated to the museum some time ago.



New York Times 4/17/01
Ellis Island goes online with immigration lists
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/17/technology/17ELLI.html?searchpv=site01

by Susan Sachs
Now, for the first time and online, Ellis Island brings you . . . your
ancestors.
Beginning today, if all goes as planned, anyone with an Internet connection
will be able to search through old passenger manifests from the ships that
ferried 17 million immigrants into New York Harbor, and the New World, in
the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The database, extracted from microfilms of the original paper manifests,
covers arrivals at Ellis Island from 1892 through 1924. Those were the peak
years of immigration, when as many as 5,000 people a day shuffled through
the inspection process. The information recorded on the manifests hints at
their individual tales of grit, adventure and hope.




The Fox Valley Villages 4/18/01
Finding family far and wide
Closed adoption records stymie adoptees' searches
http://www.copleynewspapers.com/sunpub/60504/city/o18adopt2.htm

by Donna deFalco
For Dianne Sizemore of Oswego, the search for her birth family took 20
years. With the support of her adoptive mother, Florence Kissel, Sizemore
eventually found her entire birth family.
When she was born, her birth parents - Frank and Betty Sizemore of Aurora -
were very poor and felt they couldn't afford to raise another child. With
five sons already, they decided to put the baby up for adoption. They never
knew they had a daughter, and shortly after the baby's birth, the family
moved out of the area.



Federal Computer Week 4/16/01
GSA sounds false 508 alarm
'Housekeeping' may destroy 30,000 agency Web pages
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0416/news-gsa-04-16-01.asp

by William Matthews
An April 10 memo labeled "urgent" instructed Web managers at the General
Services Administration to begin deleting Internet files that do not meet
new accessibility standards. Web sites that fail to meet the standards "will
go dark" after June 14, the memo warned.
One GSA worker described the instruction as a "slash and burn" method of
complying with a new law that requires government Web sites be made
accessible for people with disabilities. Another worker called it "Orwellian
logic" to delete files that are inaccessible to some, thus making them
inaccessible to all.



Orlando Sentinel 4/17/01
5 sheets of missing signatures reappear
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/orl-vol-deltona041701.story?coll=orl%2Dn
ews%2Dprint%2Dasec

by Beth Kassab
DELTONA -- Some of the once-missing petitions supporting a controversial
road extension turned up last week inside City Hall.
Mayor John Masiarczyk used a stack of petitions to bolster his case for the
road extension in front of the County Council in January. But when opponents
of the road project demanded the petitions as public records, the mayor said
he could not find them nor say where they came from.



People's Daily 4/17/01
China publishes Genghis Khan's sacrificial files for first time
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200104/17/eng20010417_67906.html

China has published a series of three books on memorial files and documents
of the legendary Genghis Khan for the first time.
This series of books are published by the Archives of the Inner Mongolia
Autonomous Region in the Mongolian Language. The Chinese and English
versions will be published soon, according to Baoyin, an ethnic Mongolian
researcher at the regional archives.



Philippine Star 4/18/01
Manila RTC archives losing battle vs tear, termites and time
http://www.philstar.com/philstar/News200104186328946.htm

by Jose Aravilla
Fixing his eyes on a spot in the humid, dark room, deep in a corner office
at the Manila City Hall, Mang Badong takes deep gasps of air and "dives"
deep into the rotting and dust-filled court files piled up to the ceiling.
All the while, he makes sure that he does not get too deep under the
mountainous piles or make a wrong move that could send him crashing through
the rotting wooden floor, or be buried by a landslide of bundled paper.



Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 4/18/01
Pitt to oversee local Frick archives
Other material being shipped to New York
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20010418frick4.asp

by Patricia Lowry
A Common Pleas Court judge has yet to rule on the case, but the Helen Clay
Frick Foundation and the University of Pittsburgh yesterday formalized their
agreement regarding placement of the Frick Family Archives.
The foundation and the university signed an agreement that spelled out the
terms and conditions for the university to serve as the preferred site for
portions of the archives.



Gainesville Sun 4/17/01
Preserving past writings
http://www.sunone.com/articles/2001-04-17g.shtml

by Carrie Miller
The University of Florida libraries are poised to undertake an ambitious
rescue operation in Cuba -- preserving three centuries of handwritten
history that is deteriorating in that country's National Archives.
Historians are all aquiver at the prospect of laying eyes on what are known
as the Notary Protocols, 10 million handwritten pages that tell the story of
Colonial Spain in the intimate details recorded by a notary: the colonists'
births and deaths, wills and marriages, property deeds and ship manifests.



The Sun News 4/18/01
Sheriff's deputy charged with obstruction, resigns
http://www.copleynewspapers.com/newssun/top/w18deputy.htm

By Frank Abderholden
Destroyed Winthrop Harbor businessman's unused auction papers
Deputy resigns under cloud
Obstruction of justice: Destroyed documents in homicide investigation
A Lake County sheriff's deputy resigned Tuesday after he was charged with
obstructing justice in connection with the homicide investigation of John
Michael Basham, 48, a Winthrop Harbor businessman.



San Francisco Chronicle 4/18/01
Unlocking the secrets of Ellis Island
Records free to all on Internet, raising hopes for Angel Island data
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/18
/MN63547.DTL

by Eric Brazil
Internet access to the records of millions of immigrants to Ellis Island
goes online today, giving a major boost to computerized genealogical
research and raising the prospect that information about Chinese immigrants
detained at Angel Island may one day be available at their descendants'
fingertips.
"We'd love to do that, but how it could happen, I'm not sure," said
Katherine Toy, executive director of the Angel Island Immigration Station
Foundation.
The Ellis Island experience may provide the answer.



Vibe Magazine 4/17/01
FBI tapes added to Malcolm X archives
http://www.vibe.com/new/vibewire/20010417b/news06.html

by Michael Harris
As VIBE Online previously reported, Columbia University is putting together
a comprehensive archive of Malcolm X's speeches, other writings, and filmed
interviews that will soon be open to the public. Columbia University
professor Manning Marable, who is leading the project, recently told
reporters about the progress of the comprehensive multimedia archive on the
late civil rights leader. He stated that the collection will include FBI
surveillance reports. Marable, who is also director of Columbia's
African-American Institute, added, "Thanks to the FBI, we can follow him day
by day the last three years of his life."



Korea Herald News 4/18/01
Kosdaq firm head arrested for falsified account books
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2001/04/18/200104180022.asp

The president of a Kosdaq-registered firm was arrested Monday for violating
external audit-related laws, government sources said yesterday.
In the first instance that a president of a Kosdaq-registered company has
faced window-dressing charges, Yoo Gil-soo, head of Prochips Technology, was
arrested for bribing two public accountants to doctor the firm's financial
statements.




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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