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News release:

MASSENA — Nearly 100 years of Massena Newspapers are now available on-line to the general public and researchers alike on the Northern New York Historical Newspapers web site at news.nnyln.net.

The site is provided free of charge to the public by the Northern New York Library Network in Potsdam. The run of papers from 1891-1989 includes the “Massena Observer” (1897-1989), “Northern Observer” (1891-1897), and “Massena Press & Norfolk Times” (1915).

The “Massena Observer” is one of 33 newspapers with 1,205,000 pages on the Northern New York Historical Newspapers site. Go to news.nnyln.net for a complete listing of on-line newspapers, which may be searched by county or individual paper.

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I Finally Met Superman! Tom Tryniski of Fultonhistory.com .

I have been working as a project manager for a massive genealogy research project with many other professional genealogists, that is on a major push to break down some old brick walls. More about that later, but one of the recommendations that I made to the group was to interview a man who I have been corresponding with for several years, but had never met yet.

This Blog has published many articles and mentions of the importance of using historical newspapers for genealogical research.

We now are announcing to our reader friends that the largest of these historical online newspaper collections is a sponsoring advertiser on the Upstate New York Genealogy Blog. We are very excited about this new program!

Never before has it been quite so easy to locate information on your ancestors. Many of the details that you will find by searching NewspaperArchive are just not to be found anywhere else, not ever!

Readers of this Upstate New York Genealogy Blog will remember that we have written several times about one of our favorite people, Mr. Tom Tryniski, who publishes the fabulous collection of newspapers on-line for free at www.fultonhistory.com.

Now the Fulton History website has just received mass media recognition in today’s Syracuse Post-Standard newspaper. The article will give you some idea of the enormity of this growing collection that has always been available on the Internet for free!

Tom now covers newspapers from Albany to Buffalo and he is branching out North and South. One of the latest additions is the collection of 72 rolls of newspapers on microfilm from Amenia in Dutchess county, New York.