Newsday Archives Online- Discovering that Long Island Point of View
Newsday Archives Finally Online Long Island Researchers Rejoice!! This is a big event for newspaper researchers particularly if you come from Long Island like myself. This is because on newspapers.com - the leading source for accessing high quality newspaper archives - have added what looks like the entire archives for the Long Island newspaper Newsday which dates back- as far as I could tell- to 1940 or so- under various editions. At first glance it looks like the Nassau and Suffolk editions are up on the site relatively complete but either way a huge addition to the newspaper research community has been made. Researchers from the New York area have been waiting for a long time and it's been a little bit disheartening over the years to not have been able to access the news and events from the area of your birth. The famed Brooklyn Eagle has been up for many years but that paper of course concentrated on Brooklyn and while the New York Times and the NY Daily News have been ...