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| 07/01/2009 |
Governor Carey Photographs Digitized at New York State Archives
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In an ongoing effort to make public records more accessible, the New York State Archives collaborated with former New York Governor Hugh L. Carey’s director of communications, William F. Snyder, and the Carey family to create an online digital collection of Carey photographs. Carey served as governor from 1975 to 1982.
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| 05/05/2009 |
State Archives Launches La Escuela Electrónica/The Electronic Schoolhouse
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| NEW YORK CITY - A bilingual website for teachers focusing on the Latino experience in New York was introduced today by the New York State Archives, a program of the New York State Education Department, and the Archives Partnership Trust at Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York. Time Warner supported this project.
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| 04/20/2009 |
Environmental History Collections for Earth Day
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| ALBANY- In recognition of Earth Day, the New York State Archives is highlighting the state’s environmental history with an online collection of records that focus on the Adirondack and Catskill parks dating from 1885-1990 at www.archives.nysed.gov, click on "Celebrate Earth Day."
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| 02/05/2009 |
New York’s Connections to Abraham Lincoln
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| ALBANY -- Lincoln gave a speech in New York City that propelled him to the presidency, traveled to West Point for military advice from General Winfield Scott, answered charges from Erastus Corning and others that he was trampling the Constitution, and shared his box at Ford’s Theater with a couple from Albany on the night he was assassinated. These and other connections between Lincoln and New York State are explored in a special issue of New York Archives magazine, guest edited by Harold Holzer, co-chair of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and member of the board of the New York Archives Partnership Trust.
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| 12/03/2008 |
State Archives Sponsors 19th Annual Student Research Contest
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| Albany, NY -- To encourage students to use historical records, the New York State Archives, a program of the State Education Department, is sponsoring the 19th annual Student Research Awards. The deadline for entry is July 1, 2009 and the contest is open to all New York students in grades 4-12 who use historical records in their research projects.
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| 10/02/2008 |
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp to Receive State Archives Award
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| The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation to receive the 2008 William H. Kelly Annual Archives Award for Excellence in Local Government Archival Program Development.
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| 10/02/2008 |
Consumer Protection Board Wins State Archives Award
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| The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected the New York State Consumer Protection Board to receive the 2008 Annual Archives Award for Excellence in State Agency Records Management.
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| 10/02/2008 |
Cooperstown Central High School Student Wins State Archives Award
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| Albany, NY -- The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected Cooperstown Central High School student Alexandra Rheinhardt as the recipient of the 2008 Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using Historical Records, Grades 9-12 for her entry Sounds of Conflict: A Cultural Divide.
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| 10/02/2008 |
Walden Elementary School Students Win State Archives Award
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| Albany, NY -- The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected Walden Elementary School students Jenalee Amundsen, Sarah Baker, Brianna Canto, Nicholas Cavallucci, Annalise Cardish, Felix Cepeda, Isaiah Skyler Chapman, Alex Clum, Frank Cook, Jr., Ilyssa Daly, Michael Daly, Brandon DiSimone, Sara Donovan, Abigail Hardy, Antonio Jackson, John lamb, Shiann Malvasi, Joshua Metzger, Jad Moumen, Sammy Moumen, Anthony Newton, Alyssa Rosario, Nyle Rose, Sarah Savasta, Brianna Sheehy, and Mary Sherman as the recipients of the 2008 Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using Historical Records, Grades 4-5 for their entry Capron, He’s My Street.
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| 10/02/2008 |
Essex County Historical Society Wins State Archives Award
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| The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected the Essex County Historical Society | Adirondack History Center Museum to receive the 2008 Annual Archives Award for Program Excellence in a Historical Records Repository.
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| 10/02/2008 |
Jamestown City School District, Students, & Teachers Win 3 State Archives Awards
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| Albany, NY -- In an unprecedented sweep, the Jamestown City School District, students from Persell Middle School, and three Jamestown teachers have been selected by the Board of Regents and the State Archives to receive three statewide awards. Jamestown City School District will receive the Archives Award for Excellence in the Educational Use of Local Government Records by a Local Government; Persell students will receive the Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using Historical Records, Grades 6-8; and teachers Rick Walters, Jeff Kresge and Grace Johnson will receive the Bruce W. Dearstyne Archives Award for Excellence in the Educational Use of Local Government Records by an Educator.
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| 10/02/2008 |
Nation's Top Presidential Historian Visits Albany to Presage Presidential Contest
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| Albany, NY---Best selling author and historian Michael Beschloss, a scholar named by Newsweek magazine as “the nation's leading Presidential historian,” will be in Albany, Wednesday, Oct. 22 to receive the New York State Archives Partnership Trust’s 2008 Empire State Archives and History Award. The hour-long conversation on the upcoming Presidential election and awards ceremony will be held at The Egg, Center for the Performing Arts at the Empire State Plaza at 7:30 p.m.
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| 09/19/2008 |
State Archives Sponsors Three Electronic Records Symposia
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| Albany, NY -- The New York State Archives is sponsoring a series of three electronic records symposia this fall designed to help local governments and state agencies better manage the daunting and growing task of managing electronic records.
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| 08/21/2008 |
State Archives Awards $9.5 Million to Care for Public Records
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| Albany, NY -- Commissioner of Education Richard P. Mills has announced that
the New York State Archives awarded approximately $9.5 million in grants to
hundreds of local governments and community organizations across the state.
These awards are intended to help those governments and organizations care for
the records in their custody.
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| 08/21/2008 |
State Archives Throughout the Ages Website Receives Award
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| Albany, NY -- The New York State Archives' Throughout
the Ages website has been selected by the American Association for
State and Local History (AASLH) to receive its Leadership in History Award of
Merit. The award will be presented to Julie Daniels, Coordinator of Educational
Programs for the New York State Archives, on September 12, 2008 during the 2008
AASLH Annual Meeting in Rochester, New York.
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| 05/22/2008 |
New York State Issues Comprehensive E-Records Study
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| Albany, NY -- The New York State Office for Technology and the New York State
Archives, a program of the State Education Department, issued a report today
that examines how the state can provide choice, interoperability and vendor
neutrality in electronic document creation while ensuring electronic records
are preserved and remain accessible. A Strategy for Openness: Enhancing
E-Records Access in New York State makes recommendations to promote openness
and transparency aimed at ensuring public records remain free from being locked
into proprietary systems and software applications.
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| 02/21/2008 |
History Happened Here Kiosk to Open at the Thruway's Oneida Travel Plaza
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| Albany, NY -- The New York State Archives and New York State Thruway Authority
are officially unveiling the newest History Happened Here kiosk to the public
on Monday, February 25, 2008 at 11:00 AM. This kiosk is located at the Thruway’s
Oneida Travel Plaza (I-90 eastbound) between Interchange 33 (Verona-Rome) and
Interchange 32 (Westmoreland-Rome), at Milepost 244, in Oneida County.
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| 02/09/2008 |
State Tackles Digital Records Problem
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| Albany, NY -- To solve the problem of how to manage and preserve the terabytes of digital information generated by state government each year, the New York State Archives is participating in a grant project through the Library of Congress's National Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIP). New York is one of only four states in this demonstration project.
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| 12/21/2007 |
State Archives Sponsors 18th Annual Student Research Contest
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| Albany, NY -- To encourage students to use historical records, the New York State Archives, a program of the State Education Department, is sponsoring the 18th annual Student Research Awards. The 2008 contest is open to all New York students in grades 4-12 who use historical records in their research projects.
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| 10/17/2007 |
State Archives To Develop Statewide Disaster Preparedness Training Through FEMA-funded National Initiative
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| Albany, NY -- State and local government agencies throughout New York State will be better prepared for emergencies thanks to $2.6 million recently awarded to the national Council of State Archivists (CoSA) by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The funding for the national initiative will enable the New York State Archives to provide critical training and services to state and local government agencies throughout the state.
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| 10/08/2007 |
Town of Lewisboro to Receive State Archives Award
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| Albany, NY -- The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected the Town of Lewisboro in Westchester County to receive the 2007 Cheryl Steinbach Annual Archives Award for Excellence in Local Government Records Management.
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| 10/08/2007 |
University at Albany Professor Wins State Archives Award
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| Albany, NY -- The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected Dr. Laura Wittern-Keller of the University at Albany to receive the 2007 Annual Archives Award for Excellence in Research Using the Holdings of the New York State Archives.
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| 10/08/2007 |
Dominican Studies Institute Wins State Archives Award
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| Albany, NY -- The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected the Dominican Studies Institute, City College of New York to receive the 2007 Debra E. Bernhardt Annual Archives Award for Excellence in Documenting New York’s History.
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| 10/08/2007 |
Town of Ithaca Wins State Archives Award
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| Albany, NY -- The Board of Regents and the State Archives have selected Town of Ithaca to receive the 2007 Annual Archives Award for Excellence in the Educational Use of Local Government Records. This award is presented annually to a local government that has demonstrated outstanding initiative, leadership, and creativity in encouraging and promoting the use of local government historical records for elementary and secondary education.
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| 10/08/2007 |
Thruway Authority Wins State Archives Award
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| Albany, NY -- The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected the New York State Thruway Authority and Canal Corporation to receive the 2007 Annual Archives Award for Excellence in State Agency Records Management.
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| 10/08/2007 |
Suffolk County to Receive State Archives Award
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| Albany, NY -- The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected Suffolk County to receive the 2007 William H. Kelly Annual Archives Award for Excellence in Local Government Archival Program Development.
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| 10/08/2007 |
Schenectady County Historical Society Wins State Archives Award
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| Albany, NY -- The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected the Schenectady County Historical Society to receive the 2007 Annual Archives Award for Program Excellence in a Historical Records Repository.
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| 10/05/2007 |
350 Year-old Petition for Religious Toleration in New York State to be Featured in State Archives Event
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| Albany, NY -- The first petition for the need for religious toleration in New York, the Flushing Remonstrance, will be the subject of an evening lecture, Thursday, October 11 at 7 p.m. in the State Education Department’s Cultural Education Center, Empire State Plaza on Madison Avenue in Albany. The program will begin at 7:00 p.m.
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| 09/24/2007 |
Stewart School Students Win State Archives Award
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| Albany, NY -- The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected
Stewart School students Leila Balady, Michael Collins, Alix Della Penna, Kate
DeMarco, Drusilla Falco, Daniel Fortino, Patrick Gerspach, Matthew Greene, Devon
Ialenti, Brian Nicholas, Brian Shulman, Rosie Tomao, Michaela Fitzpatrick, Timothy
Foxen, Kerri Heuser, Nicole Horn, Timothy Josephs, Emily King, Fiona MacLeod,
Daniel Pietromonaco, and Morgayne Rix as the recipients of the 2007 Laura and
Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using Historical Records,
Grades 4-5 for their entry The Birth of Stewart School.
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| 09/24/2007 |
Locust Valley Middle School Students Wins State Archives Award
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| Albany, NY -- The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected
Locust Valley Middle School student Emma Gugerty as the recipient of the 2007
Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using Historical
Records, Grades 6-8 for her entry The Bayville Bridge.
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| 09/24/2007 |
Cooperstown Central High School Student Wins State Archives Award
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| Albany, NY -- The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected
Cooperstown Central High School student Alexandra Rheinhardt as the recipient
of the 2007 Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research
Using Historical Records, Grades 9-12 for her entry The AAGPBL: a Microcosm
of Women during World War II.
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| 08/16/2007 |
State Archives Awards $10.1 Million to Care for Public Records
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| Albany, NY -- Commissioner of Education Richard P. Mills has announced that the New York State Archives has awarded approximately $10.1 million in grants to hundreds of local governments and community organizations across the state. These awards are intended to help those governments and organizations care for the records in their custody.
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| 07/30/2007 |
New York Vital Records Index Available in Watertown
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| Albany, NY -- The New York State Archives and the New York State Department of Health have worked together to place an important genealogical resource in Watertown. A copy of the Vital Records Index -- which provides information to help locate birth, death, and marriage certificates filed since the 1880s in New York State -- is available at the Roswell P. Flower Memorial Library at 229 Washington Street in Watertown.
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| 07/02/2007 |
New York Vital Records Index Available in Elmira
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| Albany, NY -- The New York State Archives, the New York State Department of Health, and the Chemung County Public Library have worked together to place an important genealogical resource in Elmira. A copy of the Vital Records Index -- which provides information to help locate birth, death and marriage certificates filed since the 1880s in New York State -- is available at the Steele Memorial Library, 101 East Church Street, in Elmira.
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| 05/03/2007 |
Town of Manchester's History Returns
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| Albany, NY -- New York State Archives gave the Town of Manchester (Ontario County) a missing piece of its history when Gail Fischer, who heads the Rochester regional office of the State Archives, presented a volume of 1910 Justice Records to Manchester Town Clerk JoAnne Henry.
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| 04/13/2007 |
Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin to be Honored in Albany Event
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| Albany, NY -- The New York State Archives Partnership Trust will honor Pulitzer Prize winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin for her work to advance history on Tuesday, April 24 at 7:30 p.m. at The Egg, Center for the Performing Arts in Albany.
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| 03/29/2007 |
New York City Based Conference Focuses on Efforts to Preserve 9/11 History
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| Albany, NY -- Preserving New York City's collective memories of the 2001 attack
on the World Trade Center and the subsequent city, state and federal response
was the subject of a one-day conference entitled The September 11, 2001
World Trade Center Attacks Documentation Efforts – Five Years On.
The event, held at the SPCS Woolworth Conference Center and organized by the
World Trade Center Documentation Task Force, brought together more than 100
family members and survivors of the attack; first responders; archivists; historians;
museum curators, and officials from city, state and federal governments.
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| 12/28/2006 |
State Archives Sponsors 17th Annual Student Research Contest
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| ALBANY -- To encourage students to use historical records, the New York State Archives, a program of the State Education Department, is sponsoring the 17th annual Student Research Awards. The 2007 contest is open to all New York students in grades 4-12 who use historical records in their research projects.
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| 11/30/2006 |
Westchester County Returns Civil War Era Prison Records to State Archives
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| ALBANY -- The Westchester County Historical Society (WCHS) gave back to New York
State a part of its extensive correctional history when it returned state prison
records that were created during the second half of the 19th century.
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| 10/17/2006 |
Author to Discuss Nineteenth-Century New York Underworld
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| ALBANY -- Award winning social historian Timothy Gilfoyle will discuss his
book A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New
York on Monday, October 23rd at 7 p.m. at the University at Albany Performing
Arts Center, 2nd floor, 1400 Washington Avenue in Albany. The event, sponsored
by Archives Partnership Trust and the University at Albany, is free and open
to the public. For more information, contact (518) 473-7105.
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| 10/05/2006 |
Village of Walton Awarded $20K Grant in Response to June Flooding
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| ALBANY -- Commissioner of Education Richard P. Mills has announced that the Village of Walton, in Delaware County, has been awarded a $20,000 grant from the New York State Archives to help pay the costs of restoring paper records that were damaged by the flood waters that inundated the village at the end of June.
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| 10/04/2006 |
Solomon Schechter Student Wins State Archive Award
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| ALBANY -- The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected
Lauren Koenig, a student from Solomon Schechter High School in Glen Cove as
the recipient of the 2006 Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student
Research Using Historical Records, Grades 9-12.
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| 09/26/2006 |
State Emergency Management Office Wins State Archives Award
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| ALBANY -- The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected
the New York State Emergency Management Office (SEMO) to receive the 2006 Annual
Archives Award for Excellence in State Agency Records Management.
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| 09/26/2006 |
Archivists Roundtable Wins State Archives Award
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| The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected
the Archivists Roundtable of Metropolitan New York to receive the 2006 William
Hoyt Annual Archives Award for Advocacy.
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| 09/26/2006 |
Rochester Museum and Latino Alliance Wins State Archives Award
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| The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected
the Rochester Museum and Science Center and the Latino Alliance to receive the
2006 Debra E. Bernhardt Annual Archives Award for Excellence in Documenting
New York's History.
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| 09/26/2006 |
Huguenot Historical Society Wins State Archives Award
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| The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected
the Huguenot Historical Society in New Paltz to receive the 2006 Annual Archives
Award for Program Excellence in a Historical Records Repository.
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| 09/26/2006 |
Saratoga County to Receive State Archives Award
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| The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected Saratoga County to receive the 2006 William H. Kelly Annual Archives Award for Excellence in Local Government Archival Program Development.
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| 09/26/2006 |
Ulster County Educator Wins State Archives Award
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| The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected
Susan Stessin-Cohn to receive the 2006 Bruce W. Dearstyne Annual Archives Award
for Excellence in the Educational Use of Local Government Records by an Educator.
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| 09/26/2006 |
Walden Elementary School Students Win Two State Archives Awards
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| The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected
Walden Elementary School students Phoebe Phelps, Lindsey Howe, Kennedy Howe,
Taylor Canto, Gary Russo, Katherine Bunora, James Bunora, Gabrielle Dickinson,
Kyala Clegg, Tiara Woodard, Danielle Zaleski, Cindy Connoly, Rebecca Penney,
Erin Pike, Courtney Bode, Alissa Hassenplug, and Cara Masterson as the recipients
of the 2006 Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research
Using Historical Records, Grades 4-5 for their entry Walden-Yesterday and
Today.
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| 09/26/2006 |
Windward School Students Wins State Archives Award
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| The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected
Edward Bugniazet and Nicholas LaSorsa, who were eighth grade students at the
Windward School in White Plains last school year, as the recipients of the 2006
Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using Historical
Records, Grades 6-8.
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| 09/26/2006 |
Town of Cheektowaga To Receive State Archives Award
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| The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected the Town of Cheektowaga in Erie County to receive the 2006 Cheryl Steinbach Annual Archives Award for Excellence in Local Government Records Management.
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| 09/08/2006 |
Actor Sam Waterston to be Honored in Albany Event
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| ALBANY -- The New York State Archives Partnership Trust will honor actor Sam Waterston for his work to promote history on Wednesday, Sept 13 at 7:30 p.m. at The Egg, Center for the Performing Arts in Albany.
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| 07/19/2006 |
State Archives Appoints Director of Operations
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| ALBANY -- The New York State Archives has announced the appointment of Kathleen Roe to the position of Director of Operations.
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| 06/30/2006 |
State Archives Awards $9.65 Million to Care for Public Records
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| ALBANY -- Commissioner of Education Richard P. Mills has announced that the New York State Archives has awarded approximately $9.65 million in grants as provided in Governor Pataki’s 2006-2007 budget to hundreds of local governments and community organizations across the state. These awards are intended to help those governments and organizations care for the records in their custody.
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| 06/16/2006 |
State Archivist Honored
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| ALBANY -- New York State Archivist Christine W. Ward has received the Distinguished Public Service Award from the College of Computing and Information at the University at Albany.
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| 04/25/2006 |
State Archives Sponsors Basics of Archives Workshops
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| ALBANY – The New York State Archives is sponsoring an all-day Basics
of Archives workshop at three locations throughout the state during May
and June. The workshops are designed for people who work or volunteer in organizations
that deal with the past -- whether it’s a museum, historic house, the
city clerk’s office, the library’s local history room, a historic
site, or a college archives.
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| 04/14/2006 |
Central New York Family History Conference
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| ALBANY – Are you interested in tracing your family history, but are not
sure how to get started? Some of the answers can be found by attending The
Central New York Family History Conference, a free, day-long series of
presentations on doing family history research on Saturday, April 22nd in Liverpool.
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| 02/06/2006 |
State Archives Civil War Soldier Database Receives Award
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| ALBANY -- The New York State Civil War Soldier Database has been selected as
one of the 101 Best Undiscovered Websites 2005 by Family Tree Magazine.
The database is one of numerous genealogical resources that can be accessed
via the New York State Archives’ website at www.archives.nysed.gov.
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| 01/25/2006 |
State Archives Sponsors 16th Annual Student Research Contest
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| ALBANY -- To encourage students to use historical records, the New York State
Archives, a program of the State Education Department, is sponsoring the 16th
annual Student Research Awards. The 2006 contest is open to all New York students
in grades 4-12 who use historical records in their research projects.
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