New Newspapers added to Fulton History

Fulton History has added more newspapers to the millions of newspaper pages that were already on the website. All the added newspapers are from New York State. If you have visited there before, you can limit the search to only see new “hits.”On the bottom of the search box are selections for dates called “File …

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Catholic Newspapers Online

Courtesy of the Catholic Courier and the Catholic Diocese of Rochester, issues of the Catholic newspapers Catholic Courier and Catholic Journal from 1889 through 2004 are now available online. There are very few missing issues for that long run.The newspapers cover the entire Rochester Diocese which goes south all the way to the Pennsylvania border. …

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New Area Newspapers to Search

Some Newark (Wayne Co.) area newspapers have been added to the RRLC Historical Newspapers of the Rochester Region website. Those new newspaper that are available to be searched are: The Arcadian Weekly Gazette April 1889 – March 1906 The Marion Enterprise September 1880 – December 1923 The Newark Union August 1872 – December 1891 To …

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Indexes to City Newspaper

Rochester’s City Newspaper is a weekly newspaper of stories that aren’t covered by the D & C. They are noted for their movie and music reviews. The letters to the editor express all kinds of different opinions. City Newspaper doesn’t carry vital record but it should be searched for other local news stories. The first …

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Fairport, NY newspapers

The Rochester Regional Library Council (RRLC) has a new website called Historical Newspapers of the Rochester, New York Region that has as the first part of the project, online newspapers for Fairport, NY. Included are these newspapers: Fairport Herald (February 1873-March-1889, April 1890-December 1895, 1896-April 1925) Fairport Herald-Mail (May-December 1925) Fairport-Perinton Herald-Mail (1980-1992) Monroe County …

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Footnote and Gannett

A press release came out from Footnote.com about some new newspaper records that they are getting from Gannett. “We wanted to let you know of an exciting new partnership between Footnote and the largest newspaper publisher in the US, the Gannett Company. Gannett, publisher of 84 daily newspapers including USA Today, will be able to …

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Newspaper Index at RPL – Part 2 (1851 -1903)

Did you read the first part? It is below this part.      The second part of the indexing project was to index newspapers from Jan. 1, 1851, but during the project the money began to run out and it was decided that only one newspaper would be indexed after June 1854. The project was cut …

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