The 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.
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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.