For those of you whose family migrated west . . these sites may be of interest to you. They were previously published in RootsWeb Review: 21 March 2007, Vol. 10, No. 12 "Paper of record," as the site is called, is free but requires you to register. After registration, they e-mail you a complex password (upper and lowercase with some numbers). You may want to save the password to a text doc. of some sort so you can copy and paste it when you sign in. Conceived by electronic publishing and web pioneer, R.J. (Bob) Huggins in a local Ottawa, Mexican restaurant in 1999, PaperofRecord.com® is a Global pioneer of searchable newspaper image documents presented in their original published form. The Toronto Star, (circulation 650,000) became the first newspaper in the world to have its entire history from 1892 to present, digitized for the world to see and search. This revolutionary process changed forever how large metropolitan newspapers conduct their research and became the genesis for PaperofRecord.com®. http://www.paperofrecord.com/ Northern New York Historical Newspapers The online collection currently consists of more than 550,000 pages from twenty-two newspapers http://news.nnyln.net/ Finally Search Over 2,725,000 Old Upstate, Western & Central NY Newspaper Pages http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html Enjoy, Marilyn