NYS Historic Newspapers has added some new newspapers to their online collection. Jewish Tidings was published weekly from Feb. 5, 1887 to Jan. 12 1894 for a total of 354 issues. Jewish Ledger is available online from Sept. 27, 1924 to Dec. 23, 1993 (3406 issues). This is also a weekly newspaper. Sources online say …
Racing with the Hours is dated about 1930. It tells about how the Rochester Times-Union and Democrat & Chronicle newspapers are created and published every day. It is pretty well detailed but the print size is very small and you may have to enlarge the PDF file to be able to read the text. Notice …
Last week I extracted marriages and deaths from Rochester newspapers from the second half of 1840. It would probably only be a small percentage of those events that would end up being recorded in a newspaper. The ones in the Rochester newspapers often cover the counties surrounding Monroe County. There are some marriages that don’t …
I forgot to mention a couple of things from last week. Bill Sauers sent this photo of the historical marker at the Susan B. Anthony house. It had been stored in a garage for many years. It recently got re-painted and now is back outside and looking like brand-new. I have had this photo of …