Wednesday, May 9, 2018

New York Ancestors

Members with New York ancestry should check out the website called "Fulton History: Old New York State Historical Newspapers."  It is a searchable repository of historic newspapers published in New York State between 1795 and 2007, frequently updated. It also includes a handful of U.S. newspapers outside of NYS.

When I stumbled on it by accident recently, I immediately found two obituaries and a short article about a suicide that occurred in 1858. I knew of the death but not the circumstances.

www.nypl.org/collections/articles-databases/fulton-history-old-new-york-state-historical-newspapers

Give it a try if you have any New York connections.

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