Dear Readers-- Has anyone noticed the lack of newspaper submissions lately?? There is a reason--and it isn't a good one--for one, I am reluctant to submit any more articles, as the archives are in danger of being lost. Are you aware of the fact that the website where Old Newspapers are archived is likely to all be wiped out soon?? All of the submissions made to the NY Old News list are then 'archived' at this website(or have been up to now): http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/usa.html Maybe that doesn't bother you---but for us who have been doing the transcribing---in most cases, we go to the library, and print off microfilm, bring home, and type on computer and email out-- it is discouraging to think that all of our time will end up for naught -to say nothing of the costs in obtaining these newspaper articles at 20cents or more per page (add it up--when some of us have submitted hundreds and hundreds of pages of articles over the past year! ) --to realize it may all go off the internet is upsetting to me. The public will really lose an excellent research source. Please! if anyone can pick up on taking over this project, I'm sure it would be very much appreciated by many. If anyone wants to take it on, you would need to access webspace to load the newsies already submitted, & be sure to keep in mind that you will need permission of all the submitters prior to 'moving' any of them. Although , I don't foresee that as a problem, as most of us are just anxious to see that they stay online as a research source. But, please ask first! Perhaps you are a reader on the other lists (Genesee co., NY-Western, or NY-Rooters)---the same thing goes---I have decided to not submit any further articles until this problem is solved. I don't want to spend my time typing up newspapers that will have no "home" to be used by the public for now and the future. Thanks for listening, -below is Glenda's email that explains it all a bit further - Linda There have been announcements about the Newspaper-Abstracts however (not on the NY-OLD-NEWS list) It has all been on our coordinator list - (which is only accessible to us coordinators) the 2 ladies that were going to try to keep the site going (& found they couldn't) are not interested in the NY site --they are on the Iowa site-- so nothing would ever come thru from them on the NY site- If you want to tell them about it on the NY site - go ahead --I have applied for a Rootsweb space for Monroe Co news I JUST CAN't Do ALL of NY tho Glenda