Joseph,

Once you know some of the tricks to using fultonhistory.org, it becomes easier to navigate.

If you're looking for a specific publication, choose "boolean" from the drop down menu. Let's say you wan't the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Try this string: \ * Brooklyn NY daily eagle and [whatever you're searching]

You can also throw dates into the string. If you don't come up with what you're looking for at first throw a "%" in place of a vowel to fuzzy up the search.
Also, if you find a page and then want to dial in the page right before or after, the best way to do that is to manually subtract or add 1 from the number that appears before ".pdf" in the URL.


Once you get used to these methods, it's not hard to find what you're looking for. Also, Tom is online every evening helping users refine their searches.

Best,

Jim


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It's a great site, but the searching tool needs serious work, plus it is very difficult to navigate to specific issues.  He needs a good librarian to help him organize. :)

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Subject: [NYHIST-L] Fulton NY Man Digitizes 22 Million Historic Newspaper Pages

Here's a new story (video plus article) at Reason.com about Tom Tryniski's Fultonhistory.com, which I'm sure many people on this list are familiar with. Tryniski has digitized 22 million newspaper pages, primarily from New York papers. His site is getting about 6 million monthly views.

http://reason.com/blog/2013/03/05/amateur-beats-govt-at-digitizing-newspap


Jim Epstein
Reason
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