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Old NYS Newspapers Online (Podcast)

May 29, 2020 by Chris Kretz 1 Comment

long island history project logoThe NYS Historic Newspapers site provides access to over 10 million pages of content published in local papers over the last two hundred years. If newspapers are the first draft of history, this is the mother of all manuscripts, filled with stories and people from every corner of New York state.

To find out how this resource was built and how it has been used, we talked with Chuck Henry, IT Coordinator for the Northern New York Library Network (NNYLN). Chuck and NNYLN keep the site running and serving the research needs of everyone from genealogists and researchers to documentarians and professional bowlers.

You can listen to the podcast here.  The NYS Historic Newspapers site can be searched online. Another site, FultonHistory.com, provides a similar service.

The Long Island History Project is a podcast featuring stories and interviews with people passionate about Long Island history. It is co-hosted by academic librarian Chris Kretz and local historian and preservationist Connie Currie.

You are seeing this podcast announcement courtesy of The New York Almanack. For a full list of this week’s podcasts click HERE.  And while you’re here – we rely on small contributions from readers like you.  Make a contribution now at our fundraising page at https://rally.org/f/4LBVKo9zYjO or send a check to: New York History Blog, 7269 State Route 9, Chestertown, NY 12817.

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Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Genealogy, Long Island, New York State Historic Newspaper Project, Newspapers, Podcasts

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  1. Margaret Ross says

    May 30, 2020 at 3:20 PM

    I’d like somebody to know that on the old NY Historic Newspapers site, there is one that is misleading in that it says it is available up to 1960 but in fact it ends around 1902. I didn’t check the exact year today but it’s about right. The newspaper is the Chenango American in Greene in Chenango County. There are very few listed in this county. I think it must have been copied by Cornell somehow. It is very disappointing to think that the issues go to 1960 and then they don’t,. Is there some way to change that on the website? I don’t know whom to contact. We are thinking also of having the total newspaper digitized on the Fulton site as the Chenango American stopped being published last year.

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