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peteb — 2011-12-30T00:16:32Z

fixed url

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- * [http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/ NewspaperAbstracts.com] is a treasure trove of old newspaper articles[[FootNote(We all love microfiche, but you can't access the library 24/7, perform full text searches, or walk around naked.)]] and (more often than not) contains full text. Site navigation isn't great, so consider searching Google instead using: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rls=DVXA%2CDVXA%3A2005-18%2CDVXA%3Aen&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspaperabstracts.com%2F+rochester site:http://newspaperabstracts.com rochester]	+ * [http://www.newspaperabstracts.com NewspaperAbstracts.com] is a treasure trove of old newspaper articles[[FootNote(We all love microfiche, but you can't access the library 24/7, perform full text searches, or walk around naked.)]] and (more often than not) contains full text. Site navigation isn't great, so consider searching Google instead using: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rls=DVXA%2CDVXA%3A2005-18%2CDVXA%3Aen&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspaperabstracts.com%2F+rochester site:http://newspaperabstracts.com rochester]
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- * Search Google using: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fhome.rochester.rr.com%2F+rochester&btnG=Search site:http://home.rochester.rr.com/ rochester]. It will return all Rochester Roadrunner (Time Warner) home pages. 152,000 results are returned, and by browsing and narrowing your search further, you're bound to stumble on odd, interesting, and useful information. Who knew Rochester is home to a [http://home.rochester.rr.com/satw/index.html world traveling slinky]? Familiar with [http://home.rochester.rr.com/piob/ Rochester Piobaireachd]? Need to flesh out a page on the [http://home.rochester.rr.com/dq/bridge1.htm Irondequoit Bay Bridge]?	+ * Search Google using: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fhome.rochester.rr.com%2F+rochester&btnG=Search site:http://home.rochester.rr.com rochester]. It will return all Rochester Roadrunner (Time Warner) home pages. 152,000 results are returned, and by browsing and narrowing your search further, you're bound to stumble on odd, interesting, and useful information. Who knew Rochester is home to a [http://home.rochester.rr.com/satw/index.html world traveling slinky]? Familiar with [http://home.rochester.rr.com/piob/ Rochester Piobaireachd]? Need to flesh out a page on the [http://home.rochester.rr.com/dq/bridge1.htm Irondequoit Bay Bridge]?

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RobertPolyn — 2006-09-08T02:13:48Z

added google archive search

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-	+ * [http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=rochester&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Google Archive Search] allows you to search collected news article from the past 200 years, including both pay and free materials.

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MikeThomas — 2006-06-06T17:50:44Z

Added YouTube and del.icio.us resources.

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	+ * [http://www.youtube.com/results?search=rochester&search_type=search_videos&search=Search YouTube video search for 'rochester' tags] + * [http://del.icio.us/tag/rochester del.icio.us search for 'rochester' tags]

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jasonwilder — 2006-04-04T15:23:15Z

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- * Search Google using: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fhome.rochester.rr.com%2F+rochester&btnG=Search site:http://home.rochester.rr.com/ rochester]. It will return all Rochester Roadrunner (Time Warner) home pages. 152,000 results are returned, and by browsing and narrowing your search further, you're bound to stumble on odd, interesting, and useful information. Who new Rochester is home to a [http://home.rochester.rr.com/satw/index.html world traveling slinky]? Familiar with [http://home.rochester.rr.com/piob/ Rochester Piobaireachd]? Need to flesh out a page on the [http://home.rochester.rr.com/dq/bridge1.htm Irondequoit Bay Bridge]?	+ * Search Google using: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fhome.rochester.rr.com%2F+rochester&btnG=Search site:http://home.rochester.rr.com/ rochester]. It will return all Rochester Roadrunner (Time Warner) home pages. 152,000 results are returned, and by browsing and narrowing your search further, you're bound to stumble on odd, interesting, and useful information. Who knew Rochester is home to a [http://home.rochester.rr.com/satw/index.html world traveling slinky]? Familiar with [http://home.rochester.rr.com/piob/ Rochester Piobaireachd]? Need to flesh out a page on the [http://home.rochester.rr.com/dq/bridge1.htm Irondequoit Bay Bridge]?

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RobertPolyn — 2005-12-20T01:21:08Z

added new favorite resource

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	+ * [http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/ NewspaperAbstracts.com] is a treasure trove of old newspaper articles[[FootNote(We all love microfiche, but you can't access the library 24/7, perform full text searches, or walk around naked.)]] and (more often than not) contains full text. Site navigation isn't great, so consider searching Google instead using: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rls=DVXA%2CDVXA%3A2005-18%2CDVXA%3Aen&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspaperabstracts.com%2F+rochester site:http://newspaperabstracts.com rochester]

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MikeThomas — 2005-12-17T00:13:23Z

Added Public Databases - removing its orphaned status

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RobertPolyn — 2005-12-15T03:16:50Z

changed link back, was not incorrect. meant to show query and return results.

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- * Search Google using: [http://home.rochester.rr.com/rochester http://home.rochester.rr.com/rochester]. It will return all Rochester Roadrunner (Time Warner) home pages. 152,000 results are returned, and by browsing and narrowing your search further, you're bound to stumble on odd, interesting, and useful information. Who new Rochester is home to a [http://home.rochester.rr.com/satw/index.html world traveling slinky]? Familiar with [http://home.rochester.rr.com/piob/ Rochester Piobaireachd]? Need to flesh out a page on the [http://home.rochester.rr.com/dq/bridge1.htm Irondequoit Bay Bridge]?	+ * Search Google using: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fhome.rochester.rr.com%2F+rochester&btnG=Search site:http://home.rochester.rr.com/ rochester]. It will return all Rochester Roadrunner (Time Warner) home pages. 152,000 results are returned, and by browsing and narrowing your search further, you're bound to stumble on odd, interesting, and useful information. Who new Rochester is home to a [http://home.rochester.rr.com/satw/index.html world traveling slinky]? Familiar with [http://home.rochester.rr.com/piob/ Rochester Piobaireachd]? Need to flesh out a page on the [http://home.rochester.rr.com/dq/bridge1.htm Irondequoit Bay Bridge]?

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FarMcKon — 2005-12-14T23:19:36Z

Added another way to find content

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	+ * Search Yahoo! or google for "Rochester" and some random word. Troll through the links, and if you see something nifty, add it!

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AndrewSerrano — 2005-12-14T22:53:57Z

URL had a space in it, not typed correctly

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- * Search Google using: [http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://home.rochester.rr.com/+rochester&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=60&sa=N site:http://home.rochester.rr.com/ rochester]. It will return all Rochester Roadrunner (Time Warner) home pages. 152,000 results are returned, and by browsing and narrowing your search further, you're bound to stumble on odd, interesting, and useful information. Who new Rochester is home to a [http://home.rochester.rr.com/satw/index.html world traveling slinky]? Familiar with [http://home.rochester.rr.com/piob/ Rochester Piobaireachd]? Need to flesh out a page on the [http://home.rochester.rr.com/dq/bridge1.htm Irondequoit Bay Bridge]?	+ * Search Google using: [http://home.rochester.rr.com/rochester http://home.rochester.rr.com/rochester]. It will return all Rochester Roadrunner (Time Warner) home pages. 152,000 results are returned, and by browsing and narrowing your search further, you're bound to stumble on odd, interesting, and useful information. Who new Rochester is home to a [http://home.rochester.rr.com/satw/index.html world traveling slinky]? Familiar with [http://home.rochester.rr.com/piob/ Rochester Piobaireachd]? Need to flesh out a page on the [http://home.rochester.rr.com/dq/bridge1.htm Irondequoit Bay Bridge]?

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RobertPolyn — 2005-12-14T16:05:47Z

added google search for timewarner homepages

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	+ * Search Google using: [http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://home.rochester.rr.com/+rochester&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=60&sa=N site:http://home.rochester.rr.com/ rochester]. It will return all Rochester Roadrunner (Time Warner) home pages. 152,000 results are returned, and by browsing and narrowing your search further, you're bound to stumble on odd, interesting, and useful information. Who new Rochester is home to a [http://home.rochester.rr.com/satw/index.html world traveling slinky]? Familiar with [http://home.rochester.rr.com/piob/ Rochester Piobaireachd]? Need to flesh out a page on the [http://home.rochester.rr.com/dq/bridge1.htm Irondequoit Bay Bridge]?

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RobertPolyn — 2005-09-01T16:09:52Z

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	+ * [http://www.hhpl.on.ca/GreatLakes/Scripts/News/SearchGLNews.asp Great Lakes Newspaper Transcriptions Search]

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RobertPolyn — 2005-07-01T20:19:02Z

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- * Want to contribute a page, but don't have any ideas for a useful page to create? Visit area ["Online Communities"] and see what questions are being asked. See if the wiki answers those questions. If not, create a page. Responses to questions in local forums very often include useful information worth including in the wiki and link to great resources to find more. Responding yourself with a link to one of our wiki pages is also a great wait to help ["Wiki Community/Promotion" promote] our site.	+ * Want to contribute a page, but don't have any ideas for a useful page to create? Visit area ["Online Communities"] and see what questions are being asked. See if the wiki answers those questions. If not, create a page. Responses to questions in local forums very often include useful information worth considering adding to the wiki alongside links to great resources to find more. Responding yourself with a link to one of our wiki pages is also a great wait to help ["Wiki Community/Promotion" promote] our site.

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RobertPolyn — 2005-07-01T20:08:37Z

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- * Want to contribute a page, but don't have any ideas for a useful page to create? Visit area ["Online Communities"] and see what questions are being asked. See if the wiki answers those questions. If not, create a page. Responses to questions in local forums very often include useful information worth including in the wiki and link to great resources to find more.	+ * Want to contribute a page, but don't have any ideas for a useful page to create? Visit area ["Online Communities"] and see what questions are being asked. See if the wiki answers those questions. If not, create a page. Responses to questions in local forums very often include useful information worth including in the wiki and link to great resources to find more. Responding yourself with a link to one of our wiki pages is also a great wait to help ["Wiki Community/Promotion" promote] our site.

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RobertPolyn — 2005-07-01T20:06:37Z

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	+ Add to this page useful resources for finding Rochester Wiki info. + + * ["LIBRAWeb"] is incredible. Use the Change Database option to select Rochester Photo Images. This will allow you to search an index of all the photo archives they have available for our city. The images cover an incredible range of our history through to modern times. Images are presented alongside useful summary information which often includes great contextual and anecdotal information that makes for great content to consider when fleshing out pages. + * [http://www.rochester.lib.ny.us www.rochester.lib.ny.us] has tons of great info. Navigating through the site itself is a headache, but using Google's 'site:' search option makes finding the info you want effortless. ''Example:'' If looking for info on our ["Abandoned Subway"] entering 'site:www.rochester.lib.ny.us subway' returns [http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=DVXA,DVXA:2005-18,DVXA:en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Erochester%2Elib%2Eny%2Eus+subway these useful pages]. + * Want to contribute a page, but don't have any ideas for a useful page to create? Visit area ["Online Communities"] and see what questions are being asked. See if the wiki answers those questions. If not, create a page. Responses to questions in local forums very often include useful information worth including in the wiki and link to great resources to find more.