photos courtesy of Bolger Heritage Center, Ridgewood Public Library
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Bolger Heritage Center, Ridgewood Public Library fun, fun, fun, coming for researchers of all things Ridgewoodian!!! The Bolger Heritage Center is shipping out a dozen boxes of old Ridgewood News and Ridgewood Herald microfilm to be digitized by ancestry.com, and which will then be SEARCHABLE by name, keyword, etc. at the Ridgewood Library (through the website newspapers.com). In other words, if you’re searching for great-great-grandpa’s obituary who died sometime in the 1890s—-all you’ll have to do is enter his name in the “newspapers.com” search box and voila! No more tedious searching through reels and reels of microfilm. No dates yet on when we’ll be “digitized”.
