Haines, I was able to access the site this a.m. The search (boolean or otherwise), navigation and frames have always been a bit funky. I recall reading his site was hacked, ruined and he had to re-build it this year. Some people who put their web sites out there are self-taught; others not. Some are well-funded and some are not. If anyone can provide a bit of free genealogy, great! Personally, trying a search for the surnames "Hill" or "Williams" for the Ithaca area has been near-to-impossible for me, no matter how the website is built. You might find something more to your liking here ... Article: Looking for early newspapers in New York State? http://ny-genes.blogspot.com/2007/10/looking-for-early-newspapers-in-new.html by Dick Hillenbrand Dick Hillenbrand's website: http://www.unyg.com/ Best of luck with your research! Kathleen --- Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com> wrote: http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.htm List of Tompkins papers on this site > The server returned an error ("page cannot be found") when tried to > access this site. It turned out that the filename should be > Fulton.html, not Fulton.htm. > The site starts with a grotesque Flash splash page, and then one > enters a page having two frames. Unfortunately, the author uses frames > and javascript. He must have used some kind of automatic web page > designer, for the page lacks any DOCTYPE and does not validate. > The width of the left frame is not defined to accomodate its > content. This frame allows one to do a word search on "old New York > state papers". I did a search on an arbitrary name, "Van Zant", and > got 645 hits. The list of these hits is organized by relevance, which > in this case was not very helpuful. What is returned are links to > 1-page PDF files. Based on a small sample, about a third were so > poorly photographed as to be illegible. > As best I could make out there was no straightforward way to know what > papers are accessible and their runs available for searching, nor did > I see any way to read a paper from a particular date. > I've no idea what the right frame does. It provides for a log in for > some reason, perhaps to support a chat room. It also offers access to a > collection of Fulton Historical Photos. It requires a pop up, which > many people disable in their browser. For some odd reason, all the > photographs had a picture of the site's owner superimposed on them. > Is there a resource available on line that reports the runs of > old Tomkins Country newspapers and the libraries where they are > available, and also if at all dititalized and accessible on line? -- > Haines Brown, KB1GRM __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com