Adirondack Historic Newspaper Site Hosts Millionth Page
Quite a milestone over at the Northern New York Library Network's historical newspaper site. According to Alex Jacobs at the Watertown Daily Times, they just added their millionth scanned page of local newspapers from the past.
Just three years after its founding, the Northern New York Historical Newspapers Web site now has 1,004,000 pages available from 28 newspapers in seven counties.This part should interest local media who still charge for access to their own digital archives (attn: Albany Times Union and Glens Falls Post Star - even the New York Times has begun opening theirs).
The millionth page was among 84,000 pages added from the former Potsdam Courier-Freeman, published from 1861 to 1989. Its addition was supported by the Friends of the Potsdam Public Museum, which helped finance the microfilming of issues from 1946 to the mid-1980s.
Since the Potsdam publication was added, more than 24,000 searches have been conducted on the online Courier-Freeman archive, said Thomas J. Blauvelt, library network systems administrator.At the NNLN's page you can look at scanned copies of the originals and search their index - ads and all. They are going to add the Tupper Lake Free Press and the Massena Observer next.
SOME TIPS
Search for full or last names of people you know, famous people you're interested in, places, industries, ideas.
Instead of viewing the pages in the built-in online viewer, download all the pages for a single search term into their own folder and view them later in your pdf program (like the free Adobe Acrobat).
Also check out the Brooklyn Daily Eagle online and another more local newspaper archive here.
And don't forget our own Great Adirondack History Searches from 2005.
And also Adirondack Genealogy: Researching Local Roots from 2007.
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Another great site (one guy loading newspapers--just hit Five million !!)is:
www.fultonhistory.com
Enter the site on the postcard !!
I thought it was great that the WDT highlighted the Northern New York Historical Newspapers site, since it is one of the richest sources of historical information available to New York genealogists and historians. I imagine that this resource has not even begun to be fully explored yet.
As a genealogist, I have found a treasure trove of information about all my Upstate New York families. This is really a great project.
According to the Northern NY Library Network site their purpose is to "...facilitate cooperative services among libraries in northern New York and to improve library services within the region, which consists of Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego and St. Lawrence counties." This wonderful project is a testimony to this mission. When our legislatures move to cut funding for libraries why don't we all remind them that our lives are richer because of the services of libraries.
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