Nina- why don't you do as was suggested earlier: call your library (since you say you "cannot go there")and request microfilm from your desired portion of NYstate's 62 counties on interlibrary loan and then you can type up a reel of whatever would please you ? I'm glad you want more than "just Rochester"---because that is what you are getting! Glenda does hers from the Democrat and Chronicle, which comes out of Rochester, but if you read thru most of them, you will find articles from other areas throughout NYstate. I use various papers from out of Genesee county--which covers thirteen towns, since 1840--it covered more than that pre-1840. Many of my submissions also cover state-wide news of interest to most people. I do hope you re-consider your viewpoint on this, Nina, as it is a state-wide mailing list--without any other restrictions. There is nothing saying that submissions have to be balanced and weighed with equal submissions from every region. And in regard to this question you had:>>Linda. if others are submitting > articles, where are they?<< I suggest you just go look at the Archives of Newspapers we've placed online and see for yourself. I re-iterate my first comment to you--if you can't do something to help fix it, don't complain (and writing your emails to >>have piqued the interest of someone in the Hudson Valley or up near the border to "go to your library and submit articles", <<-- that is NOT helping--that is getting someone else to do what you want to see done! Why don't you start a mailing list for the county you want to see articles from? Why don't you write or call historical societies and have them copy articles for you to type up? A wise man once said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." Linda