The links to the collections on Rochester Public Library appear to be working again. That means that you can again view their historic books, newspaper indexes, and city directories. It appears that they changed their website to make it more secure by changing from HTTP to HTTPS. Some browsers no longer will longer open old …
Hundreds of the links on the Monroe County GenWeb pages are not working. They all are links to things on the Rochester Public Library website that worked earlier this week but stopped working within the last few days. It appears that RPL did an update to their website to make it more secure. In the …
Last Saturday Christopher Brennan of the Local History and Genealogy Division of the Rochester Public Library gave an overview of what they have available in their division. This link is to the PowerPoint slides for that presentation. It includes some links to online sources.
WXXI recently had this story about librarians at the Rochester Public Library re-discovering some of the things in their local history collection. The audio and the text are slightly different but basically say the same thing. It points out how RPL has many things that they didn’t know they had in their collection. I think …