Posts Tagged ‘newspapers’

The New York State Library is going to be open on Saturdays, starting this coming October 16th.  This story sounded too good to be true, but it has been verified.

For those of you that work during the week this is a golden opportunity to be able to take advantage of the unique collections and fingertip access to some of the best published and non-published resources for New York State ancestors.

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.

**************

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.

GenealogyBuff provides dozens of unique quick finding aids for all types of genealogy searching. This website compiles data sites from all over the Internet and presents them in a nice easy to find and searchable format.

GenealogyBuff – Links to thousands of on-line sources for items like; Maps, Immigration, Obits, Marriages, Archives, Personal Announcements, Cemetery Inscriptions, School Yearbooks, Church Records, Census, Court, Land, Probate, Military, Newspapers, and let’s see did I miss anything? What else is there?

Oh, try the handy dandy surname search. Does this website miss some links? Sure, but what it does find is absolutely remarkable, and totally Free! (There’s my favorite word again.)

Some might say, “What the heck is Ephemera?”
Pronounced “eff-em-er-uh” (at least that’s the way I pronounce it.)

Ephemera means an item that relates to the moment. This term is normally applied to just paper, but to some it might also include items of 3 dimensional types, and something that one might hang on to for a keepsake or future reference.

Some of the items that fall into this category are; manuscripts, autographs, letters, diaries, handbills, matchbooks, photographs, broadsides, almanacs, programs, advertisements, funeral cards, posters, newspapers, tax lists, old bill heads, valentines, business cards, and on and on.

Just in case you did not see the very nice presentation that the Albany Times Union newspaper published for their 150 year anniversary, here is a website that will take you back.

Albany Times Union 150 Year Anniversary.

Dick Hillenbrand
Upstate New York Genealogy
www.unyg.com

Our newest advertiser at unyg is American Express – AMEX. Check it out.

NAPLES, FL–(Marketwire – October 25, 2007) – GenealogyBank, a leading online provider of historical and recent newspapers for family history research, announced today the addition of over 100 fully searchable historical newspapers. This includes more than 4 million articles brimming with significant genealogical content.

Next week, GenealogyBank will add another 2 million articles from over 100 more newspapers. Complementing more than 200 million family history records, this latest addition will expand coverage to over 2,200 U.S. newspapers in all 50 states.

Read the full story here: http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=784866

Dick Hillenbrand

Upstate New York Genealogy

www.unyg.com

Great news to those that have found references in the New York Times on-line indexes and then found out that you would have to pay a fee to see the original article.

After midnight tonight the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune archives will be on-line at no cost to view.

Read the report.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/18/business/18times.php

Dick Hillenbrand
Upstate New York Genealogy
www.unyg.com

And then there was ANOTHER spectacular Newspaper Database on-line!

www.paperofrecord.com – It’s FREE! Just get an account by filling out the membership form, and give them your email address and they will send you a password immediatley.

OK, OK, so they are not too heavy yet on New York State, see below, but what do you want for free? It is a world-wide collection and will be growing leaps and bounds.

It appears to me that you can only search on individual newspaper collections instead of just one master input, but I could be wrong and I have not yet given it a good shake down cruise. The quality of the few papers I did check were very good.

Tom Kemp
to me

show details
10:25 am (12 minutes ago)
Please pass this along to everyone you know … we want everyone to try it.
We didn’t expect for this to get to the lists … but its hard to keep a lid on this once we announced it to the 2,000 enthusiastic attendees at the Jamboree. It’s only for a few days, so go ahead and promote it to your friends so they can become acquainted with GenealogyBank too.

Tom

———- Forwarded message ———-
Date: Feb 10, 2007 3:32 AM
Subject: Free log in to GenealogyBank good til Tues 2/13/07
This GenealogyBank free access promotion was announced Friday at the
St George, Utah Genealogy Jamboree.

If any of you have been following my ramblings for any length of time now, you might have noticed that I have an affinity for old newspapers. Let’s face it, in New York State these fragile old pieces of paper might be the only place that one can obtain a snippet of data on an ancestor that will state their name and put them at a particular place on a given date. This state was not blessed with the wonderful old Town Vital Records program that the New England states and colonies had. Our vital record program did not start, (with a minor few exceptions,) until the 1880′s.