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Research your Buffalo, NY USA ancestors & architecture at BuffaloResearch.com. Buffalo's oldest surviving website, founded 1993, run by a retired librarian. Plus local resistance stuff.

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.com · Sep 11
The Buffalonians starter pack is now at over 100 names, mostly people who are not focused solely on sports. Want to be added? Drop a howdy in the replies!
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www.investigativepost.org/2026/01/13/c...
New owner for parent company of The Buffalo News.
What David Hoffman's purchase of Lee Enterprises might mean for The Buffalo News.
www.investigativepost.org
January 13, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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After rounding up 30 of Buffalo's best restaurants right now, here are the final 10.
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Francesca Bond: Haven't seen your favorite restaurant yet in my top 40? Keep reading ...
Read the final 10 restaurants in The News' coverage of the 40 best restaurants in Buffalo right now.
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January 13, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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An anecdote for the "Names Were Not Changed at Ellis Island" files from Patricia Volk's "Stuffed," p. 104. Like this family, immigrants Americanized their names by themselves.

#genealogy
#EllisIsland
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@jmendelsohn.bsky.social
"Maurice proposed, but Polly turned his down, too. Then she went to City Hall with my grandfather and got a marriage license. His name was Herman Morgenbesser (Morning Kisser), but after studying the way it looked, she said, 'Herman, you name is too long for America.' She drew a line through the 'besser.' From then on, they were Polly and Herman Morgen."
January 13, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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What is the most overused word in your industry?

Let it out.
January 13, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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This is wild: US regional history told entirely by UK historians, by UK producers. Great Buffalo sequences. Is anyone else watching it on @btpmnpr.bsky.social?
#Buffalo
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www.pbsamerica.co.uk/series/the-r...
The Rise and Fall of the Rust Belt | PBS America | UK
www.pbsamerica.co.uk
January 13, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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Cosign.
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January 12, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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Retweet with your home river.

Hello from the mighty Niagara.
#Buffalo
Color photo of the Bird Island pier in Buffalo, NY, on a clear sunny day, looking south towards the Peace Bridge. The Niagara River is on the right, the Black Rock channel and the US mainland is on the left.
January 12, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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Includes #Buffalo coverage.
January 12, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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The #Buffalo book of the week doesn't have a great cover, but it is a reprint of the program from the brewer's convention program held in Buffalo in 1897. Lots of local brewery history and illustrations here.

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Brewers Convention 1897 in Buffalo, NY
Check out Brewers Convention 1897 in Buffalo, NY - Brewers Convention 1897 in Buffalo, NY is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature…
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January 12, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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joshshepperd.bsky.social Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 2d
I curate the history series at public media's trade journal Current. We're looking for pieces on the history of NPR, PBS and its affiliates, with some space to imagine public media's future. We accept academic articles repurposed for wide readership. Plus, we pay. Please circulate!
Rewind: The Roots of Public Media
This series features scholars of media history looking back at both familiar and lesser-known chapters in public broadcasting’s evolution. “Rewind” is presented in partnership with the Radio Preservat...
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January 11, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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January 11, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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Wegmans refuses to say whether or not its using facial recognition cameras at its stores in Buffalo and Rochester.
But the store is tracking you in all sorts of other ways.

We break down what we know and what the company has revealed. More details here:

www.investigativepost.org/2026/01/09/w...
January 11, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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Lake sturgeon, a native species of NY and capable of living for more than 100 years, has been making a comeback. Thanks to the efforts of local fishing agencies, Mother Nature is getting a helping hand to bring back these swimming dinosaurs.
Bill Hilts Jr.: Cattaraugus Creek helping lake sturgeon make their return
Lake sturgeon, a native species of New York and capable of living for more than 100 years, has been making a comeback in recent years. Thanks to the efforts of local fishing agencies, Mother Nature is getting a helping hand to bring back these swimming dinosaurs.
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January 11, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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@mnlib.bsky.social
Here's something you can do.
buffaloresearch.com BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.com · 3d
Librarians & archivists in Minneapolis, my heart goes out to you. I hope you are using your training to document the occupation. Collect leaflets & protest signs, do web archiving, print out official statements, whatever you have the bandwidth for.
#ReneeGood
#Minneapolis
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January 10, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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Librarians & archivists in Minneapolis, my heart goes out to you. I hope you are using your training to document the occupation. Collect leaflets & protest signs, do web archiving, print out official statements, whatever you have the bandwidth for.
#ReneeGood
#Minneapolis
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January 10, 2026 at 7:28 PM
buffaloresearch.com
Originally baked in Niagara Falls, of course.

Oh, and Triscuits are an absolutely top-shelf cracker. No contest.
erinbartram.bsky.social Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d
If you need a mundane example of how much people look at words/headlines and don't understand them, it's the number of times I track a citation of @richterscale.bsky.social's piece back and find it being used to argue that historians confirm the electricity biscuits theory.
The Trouble with Triscuits
Though the "electricity biscuit" thesis is plausible, killjoy historians need more evidence.
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January 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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❓ Did you know The Buffalo Zoo is the nation's 3rd oldest #zoo? The Zoo is celebrating its 150th anniversary & Erie County is proud to support them in providing great educational, cultural, & recreational resources.

More on art & cultural programs: erie.gov/cultural
Buffalo Zoo info: buffalozoo.org
January 10, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Not my house but I know my way around.
Concrete silos in one of Buffalo's grain elevators rise into a blue sky with wispy clouds
January 10, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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During the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in #Buffalo, Whitney's sculpture titled Aspiration was sited in front of what is now the Buffalo History Museum. It was plaster of Paris & likely discarded at the end of the Exposition.
Sculpted figure of a nude man, arms outstretched, on a rectangular base. Behind him is the north facade of what was, during the exposition, the New York State building.
January 10, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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Hey, look, it is the Signature Bridge that everyone thought would be unique to #Buffalo back in 1999. Turns out a second Peace Bridge was not needed and this design was being built all over the place.
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January 9, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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From yesterday's protest in Buffalo over an ICE agent's killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
Page from The Buffalo News on Jan. 9, 2026, showing a photograph of a protest in Buffalo over an ICE agent's killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
January 9, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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🚨 SINGLE TRACKING 🚨

📅 Metro Rail will run on a single track between Church and Canalside stations from January 18-24, with regular service resuming on Jan. 25.
January 9, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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Check out these photos from last night by @libbymarch.bsky.social

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Photos: Hundreds protest ICE in Buffalo after ICE officer kills Renee Good in Minneapolis
Between 200 and 300 demonstrators rallied together for a protest against the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) outside 250 Delaware Ave., the building that houses local ICE operatio...
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January 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM