![]() The archives of the Fulton Patriot brought him back to those times. As a kid, he'd obsess about columns in the old Fulton Patriot that featured photos of the town's industrial history-black-and-white images of men and women in front of massive warehouses and quaint, locally owned storefronts. It started as a hobby a co-worker gifted him an old postcard and he'd gone to the local library to find out who the people in the photo were. I had to know more and a search led me to a terrific 2018 Columbia Journalism Review profile on Tryniski: A commenter, Kimberly E, agrees, "For 10 years I was a genealogy librarian and pointed patrons here more than our paid newspaper databases. I found out about the site from the owner of a historic hotel, TikTokker who starts her 'stan' video by calling it, "the greatest website on the whole internet." She says she used Tryniski's site to learn about her home but remarks that it's also great for researching genealogy. He does all of the work by himself from his Fulton, New York home. ![]() Currently there are over 51 million pages from American and Canadian papers in the collection. ![]() Since 1999, Thomas Tryniski has been diligently scanning newspapers from microfilm to his free online archive, Fulton History.
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