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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 10:40 UTC

This is an absolutely top-notch dive into primary sources & methodology for urban history research.

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 20:35 UTC

Copyright law doesn't look so bad now that it might be the only thing standing between you and AI scraping all of your content.

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 20:33 UTC

New post about pre-prohibition saloon & tavern owners in Buffalo & Erie County, NY.
#genealogy
#skystorians
#Prohibition
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buffaloresearch.com/2024/07/08/d...

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:37 UTC

For those tuning in, New York State now releases original birth certificates to adoptees born in NY.
www.health.ny.gov/vital_record...

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 02, 2024 at 23:57 UTC

A 1928 ad in an Italian immigrant newspaper reads
"[City's] only pizzeria for sale, located at [address.] Good business, go to the location," acc. to Google Translate.
Back then, could "pizzeria" have had a meaning/connotation other than "restaurant specializing in pizza?"
#FoodHistory
#Italian
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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 20:10 UTC

Happy to chime in with what I've picked up over the years, will try not to be a pest!

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 17:46 UTC

Not to wear out my welcome in your mentions, but here's something I wrote to help researchers get help from us:
buffaloresearch.com/2021/01/24/s...

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 17:25 UTC

May not be as applicable other fields of inquiry but I figure most reference librarians will encounter someone who can deliver a long narrative that omits an actual ask. 👍

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 16:19 UTC

Librarian in my day job. One of my best reference interview questions is "What are you hoping to find today that you don't already know, so we don't cover the same ground?" Local history & genealogy researchers want to tell you everything they know & this helps them focus on what they don't know.

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 15:08 UTC

Archive.org seems to be experiencing high demand/low bandwidth at the moment. Hoping they are not under attack again.

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:23 UTC

If an institution wishes to dispose of itsrecords, and *can legally do so, * and a historical society wants to have them? Great!
But offering & accepting old stuff is entirely voluntary for both parties.
#genealogy
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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:19 UTC

People are often surprised to learn that large institutions retain their own records: governments, courts, schools, colleges & universities, hospitals, corporations. Your local historical society is not a mandatory repository for everybody's old stuff.

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:31 UTC

Signal boost
#ArtHistory
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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:18 UTC

Your annual reminder that the great state of New York abolished slavery on July 4, 1827 and the bicentennial is fast approaching. If you're not up to celebrating anything else tomorrow, celebrate this.
#BlackHistory
#Slavery
history.nycourts.gov/when-did-sla...
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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 13:23 UTC

Did you know? Anyone may take out a JSTOR account and read 100 articles/month for free. You just can't download them as PDFs.
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support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/sec...

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 03:56 UTC

Possibly a long shot, but try FamilySearch.org. It's the free competitor to Ancestry but you do have to register for a free account to use it.

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 16:17 UTC

I love a good analogy.

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 16:15 UTC

Absolutely agree! I was only speculating about how widespread misconceptions about the ease of "putting everything online" came about.

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 12:58 UTC

The proliferation of cheap flatbed scanners for home use convinced everyone that putting things online merely requires scanning.

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 10:49 UTC

Anyone know what's up at BuffaloRising? This now appears at the end of every article but I have yet to find a log-in screen.

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 19:08 UTC

Here's a legit instance of the word, describing a kind of pen in 1914:
books.google.com/books?id=GGk...

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 15:18 UTC

Buffalo kitchen machines, y'all!
archive.org/details/buff...

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