Dead Source Links

Question

Hi Wikitreers,

Update:

It appears the source links for nys historic newspapers have been changed and don’t work https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org./titles/places/new_york/franklin/ or https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/

Sources cited with name of the historic newspaper, date and page number, but link is dead.

Thoughts? Does the site exist anymore?

Thank you 

Note: it appears in modern genealogy sooner or later all url links get changed or become broken over time and the deck of url cards get shuffled. Who knows what ancestry or Familysearch, etc., will be in 100 years, heck even some books don’t even exist anymore or somebody might have the last one in their barn or that last Bible in an attack 

Addendum: one such book is “Barrett, S. Byron. The Barrett Family Record: Supplemented by The Miller Family and Jones Family. Denver, Co: Printed by William Wallace Barrett, 1913. pp 1-27.” Which I have a copy of through family connections but I can’t find it anywhere else. I also hold the family bibles of many 19th century families whose lines died out or became too distant by 20th century. 

Comments

Hi Andrew. The first link you give has an extra unwanted dot after "org":

https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org./titles/places/new_york/franklin/

and it fails with an SSL error. If you remove the dot leaving

https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/titles/places/new_york/franklin/

it still fails, but with a more normal "Not Found" error.

The second link

https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/

works from where I am.

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Thank you

The new updated site seems to be difficult to use no citation link?

Edit: Click on the counties and it’s a dead link still?

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The search seems very powerful. Using quotation marks for an exact phrase helps.

I couldn't find a citation tool either. The scissors icon does something, but I don't understand what: maybe it doesn't work on an iPad.

The Counties link on the main page works for me.

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I found this online:

• "The Barrett Family Record" is 22 pages and is part of the "Solomon Barrett Jr. Collection, 1845-1987", MSS. Collection Number 076. It contains a "Xeroxed copy dated 1913". It is located at the St. Lawrence Univ. Library.

I also looked for it online and couldn't find it. If some one with access to it can photography it with their phone, it should be easy to convert it to a PDF and then upload it to WikiTree.

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I might add the pdf which I have it currently stored. It’s very short only 22 pages of the family genealogy

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https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/  works for me and is a link on my family history blog.  It has been redesigned and took me a while to get used to the new look and functionality.

Answer 1

If I want to use a source like a page in a historical book I will enter the source on The Wayback Machine and then use the resulting URL as a source on the profile.  The Wayback Machine captures a web page (the source) as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future.

https://web.archive.org/