BuffaloResearch.com
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Research your Buffalo, NY USA ancestors & architecture at BuffaloResearch.com. Buffalo's oldest surviving website, founded 1993, run by a retired librarian. Banner image is the City of Buffalo flag.
Plus local resistance stuff.
#BuffaloResearch
Plus local resistance stuff.
#BuffaloResearch
[laughing] I did not spot that! Should be "Attica."
November 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
[laughing] I did not spot that! Should be "Attica."
Already added new entries & amended existing ones, because Newspapers.com is a gift that keeps on giving.
The past: read all about it.
The largest online newspaper archive. Used by millions every month for historical research, family history, crime investigations, journalism, and more.
Newspapers.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Already added new entries & amended existing ones, because Newspapers.com is a gift that keeps on giving.
In libraries, museums & archives, there is no such thing as “putting everything online,” for the same reason that there is no such thing as "putting everything on exhibit."
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November 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
In libraries, museums & archives, there is no such thing as “putting everything online,” for the same reason that there is no such thing as "putting everything on exhibit."
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It is buying server space, licensing software for managing digital assets, processing image files, and having highly-trained staff to write custom metadata to professional standards.
It costs money to give stuff away for free.
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It costs money to give stuff away for free.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
It is buying server space, licensing software for managing digital assets, processing image files, and having highly-trained staff to write custom metadata to professional standards.
It costs money to give stuff away for free.
🗃️📜📚
It costs money to give stuff away for free.
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Yesterday I gave thanks for the new immigrants repopulating distressed neighborhoods. They are the best change in #Buffalo since I moved here in 1992. The only thing that welcoming immigrants and refugees causes is grateful new Americans.
November 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Yesterday I gave thanks for the new immigrants repopulating distressed neighborhoods. They are the best change in #Buffalo since I moved here in 1992. The only thing that welcoming immigrants and refugees causes is grateful new Americans.
Buffalo had a German-language newspaper for 130 years, right up to around 1965, when Buffalo Volksfreund switched to publishing in English. No one accuses Germans of not assimilating.
It takes a generation for each new group to assimilate.
It takes a generation for each new group to assimilate.
November 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Buffalo had a German-language newspaper for 130 years, right up to around 1965, when Buffalo Volksfreund switched to publishing in English. No one accuses Germans of not assimilating.
It takes a generation for each new group to assimilate.
It takes a generation for each new group to assimilate.
Great takedown, better than the movie itself!
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Great takedown, better than the movie itself!