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From: "Mary Sue Lutz" <>
Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] Free Newspaper
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:23:15 -0400
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I was trying those things and wasn't getting anywhere.....when I say this
guy is elusive, I mean he is elusive....Oh well, I will try the little
magnifying glass again....and the camera. Thanks for the help!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lori ODea" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] Free Newspaper


>
> On the fultonhistory website. When you look at the newspaper article there
> is a little magnifying
> glass with a plus sign on it, at the top of the tool bar that you can zoom
> in on the newspaper,
> so you can read it better. There is also another box with a camera looking
> piece that you can
> box the part of the article you want to print. So you don't have to print
> the whole newspaper page.
> Please note when you are doing a search, try typing the name several
> different ways. As sometimes
> the index picks on letters incorrectly from the way the scan is. Like an L
> could look like a t.
> Also another little trick is example: demett- try putting in "de mett" as
> sometimes the name is split
> between 2 lines.
> Good luck all with your searches.
> Like Rene said it is a wonderful website. I too have been using it for
> over a year.
> Lori
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Mary Sue Lutz" <>
> Sent 4/14/2008 5:54:22 PM
> To: "Tree-Digger" <>,
> Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] Free Newspaper
> Databasewww.fultonhistory.comReceivesAttentionI can hardly make out any of
> the article I am looking at...what am I doing
> wrong?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tree-Digger" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 5:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] Free Newspaper
> Databasewww.fultonhistory.comReceivesAttention
>> Hi Judy and Everyone,
>>
>> I wish you luck in your endeavor. Yes, this site is truly fantastic. I
>> have been using it for about a year now and I've found things relating to
>> my
>> family, that I probably wouldn't have without it. I highly recommend
>> this
>> site. But on that note, please be aware that much attention has been
>> given
>> within the last week about this site, so much so that it has become
>> bogged
>> down at times from many users.
>>
>> Enjoy,
>> Rene'
>>
>> -------Original Message-------
>>
>> From: Judy Olson
>> Date: 4/14/2008 5:00:57 PM
>> To:
>> Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] Free Newspaper Database www.fultonhistory
>> comReceivesAttention
>>
>> To:
>> Subject: [NYDELAWA] Free Newspaper Database www.fultonhistory.com
>> ReceivesAttention
>>
>>
>> Hi, Listers. What a site this is! I did a search for my GGGrandfather and
>> found the following:
>>>From the Oswego Daily Palladium, Sat., Jan 9, 1904 page 6, under comments
>> people noted on checks they had written....
>> "This check is the twenty-ninth I have given for accident insurance and I
>> have never even stubbed my toe since I was a boy. What fools we mortals
>> are." Jeremiah Tompkins
>>
>> Now my quandary is to find out if this Jeremiah Tompkins could possibly
>> be
>> my GGGrandfather, proving he actually survived after being tried for
>> desertion in the Civil War, or if this is just a stock quote printed in
>> tons
>> of newspapers as fillers and items of interest.
>>
>> I'm definitely going to keep checking out that database! Judy
>>
>>
>>
>>
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