Yes – it is about time that Tom and the Fulton History Newspaper Database received some attention.

This site has been a lifesaver for me during my research.

He is really an incredible person, isn’t he? So many of us started out like him, volunteering time – he is just over the top and amazing!!

Jo Dee

And well deserving. I found 1030 GARBINSKI/Y hits, including deaths,
marriages, births, lawsuits, etc.

Wonderful site.
Shirley

This looks like a post card site, very hard to find where the newspaper link is located. Is this a for for pay post card site?

Pat

Pat,

It is a totally free newspaper site where you can presently search more than six million New York State newspapers, and growing every day. He started out several years ago with post cards, and you can still see them as well.

As soon as you click on “enter” it takes you right to the free newspaper search box. If you read the article on my Blog and also on the Syracuse Post-Standard website it is explained very well. I have written about him many times on my Blog and if you care to look at my previous posts, just go to http://ny-genes.blogspot.com and use the search box at the top left.

Tom is a REAL good guy and deserves much credit. He does this absolutely all at his own expense.
unyg

Fulton History Newspaper Database is excellent. Easy to search, easy to read the images. I was fortunate to track down obituaries of family members who had moved from the Albany area prior to 1900 that I had lost track of.

Just a note, however, to those going to the site for the first time that the link in the post is missing the letter n. The correct link is http://www.fultonhistory.com.

What a wealth of information, many thanks to the person that sent this in, I
have found many articles on my Berrigan family in Poughkeepsie.
Mary Anne

I’m delighted to see this newspaper write-up. Tom is clearly a man with vision and passion! His time & energy has given all of us not only this NY newspaper database, but what I’d call an addition to a list we could call “heritage treasures online”.

I’ve pointed many people to Tom’s site – knowing how much gold is in them thar hills.

Thanks for the heads up about the article, Dick. Think I’ll repeat your sentiments too and say “thank you, Tom”. I appreciate you!

Deb

Let me add my personal kudos to the Fulton History site. I stumbled across it quite a long time ago and it was “ok”.

They went through a bad patch and re-assembled (if I have my facts correct). When I re-encountered it a few weeks ago — long time since their crisis — I found an awesome search tool and amazingly accurate way to zero in on facts. It’s far and away the most effective ocr search tool I have found.

If you have relatives from this era and geography, it’s worth some time investigating.

Alexander (Swerdfeger) Inglis
In Toronto

I just want to second Dick’s comments on the http://www.fultonhistory.com website.
If anyone hasn’t yet tried it – DO SO! And keep trying it as more and more
papers are added. I’ve found things there I never thought I’d find. And do
keep in mind that it covers the area from Troy to Buffalo, as well as down
into the Finger Lakes and up to parts of the North County. Also down the
Hudson – they’ve recently added Poughkeepsie papers, for example, in which I
found previously unknown info on a Fulton Co. ancestor! It’s a winner.
Joanne

Thank you for telling us about this site – it is fabulous! I found numerous
articles on relatives. Made my day.

Thanks again!
Merritt

Oh my…thank you. What a wonderful start to my day.

Georgia

I would have to agree 100%!! Someone located a single obit on this site for
me and since then I have found at least 5 others and several other articles
of interest. If only other areas of the country were as fortunate. Great
resource!!.

Glen

Great site! Thanks for the tip!

Raymond

Thanks for the feedback.
We appreciate comments from readers more than I can possibly say. Please keep them coming.
unyg

Duane,

I know what you mean and wish that it was not set up with all of the flash animation and very distracting audio. However, it is Mr. Tryniski’s website and he can do as he wishes with it.

I find if you get past the first bit of distraction and get to the search box for the newspapers then it becomes much easier and less confusing.

It is such an absolutely valuable tool that I guess I would put up with a lot more. My suggestion is to give it another try some time. It is well worth the cost.

unyg

Esther,

You’ve found the secret out! \grin/

The site is almost always available during the late night hours. As per the news story, Tom stated that at some times he has had as many as 70,000 hits per day. Amazing.

Thanks for the feedback.
unyg

Hello, Dick (or whoever gets this)
I am confused by the word “Free” in “Free Newspaper Database http://www.fultonhistory.com“. found in the NYErie messages.

I tried to follow the clues, but – as is generally the case – landed at what looked like a pay subscription screen. It seems that more and more entrepeneurs are finding ways to charge for information, and considering all the sites we must check for one bit of data, this puts the limited-income researcher at a decided disadvantage.

Can you expain to me what makes the above-mentioned site “free”? How can I access various pools of information without selling the family home?

Thanks.
M.

Thanks for your reply, Dick.
I will check the site more carefully, especially the article. I was so excited and eager to find something that I just jumped in. Surely you know the type?

I would be in favor or pay sites, too, if:
1) I had steady income
2) They would lead me to a variety of data
3) If I could count on them.
I subscribed a couple of times to either gen.com or anc. com and was greatly disappointed. The information I found for some of my hard-to-locate ancestors was verbatim what I had put in my files, even to typos. How it ended up on gen.com is anyone’s guess, but it looks like “cookie cutters” at work. Not much to learn there.
Some of the other information was simply wrong.
4) To get to another level, I would have to subscribe to more sites, so I gave up on them. My daughter still uses them, but I couldn’t deepen my understanding by reading my own data, so I gave up.
6) I started researching when people were anxious to help each other, and enjoyed researching. I would like it lots better now, if information were passed along more freely. (Apparently, my passing information is what caused my words to get into gen.com?)

Anyway, I will go back and read the article. Perhaps I will find answers to my doubts there.

Thanks,
M.

Thanks for your input Alexander.
Glad to see it is of some help to you.
unyg

Pat,

The whole site is free! To search the newspaper
collection, type in your “search words” in the orange
box at the top left hand part of the webpage. Be sure
to put the words in quotation marks. I have printed
off pages of information that I wouldn’t have found
otherwise.

Judy

I had a lot of success searching my wife’s family in Cohoes.

MIKE

I went into the site a few days ago, and there was no sound. Today, as Pat
noted, there was sound -very disjointed, and I agree, very distracting and
annoying!!

Ann

After some effort – and a lot of waiting – I finally made contact with the
newspaper database, but responses are painfully slow. Currently I am
downloading a page at 66 bytes/second – on a road runner high speed
connection. Is there a problem, or is the site just super busy since the
announcement was made?

The Free newspaper database website at http://www.fultonhistory.com is growing
leaps and bounds! There are over six million scanned, digitized and search
able newspaper pages from all over New York State, ranging in years from
about 1820 to modern times.

Are they still adding to it from the early years or are they adding more
recent newspapers?
I found 1030 hits for Thomas Garbinski and family in Auburn. My cup runneth
over.
Shirley