Newspaper Archives

The latest Lost Cousins Newsletter (second March one) contained information on The British Newspaper Archives which I have had a look at and I have found some wonderful articles about some of my ancestors.

My great grandfather was caught with with fifty-six poached rabbits in his cart! He was fined £2.
My great great grandfather was wrongly imprisioned for stealing a watch. Some tramps found the watch and he was given his liberty.

The archives are also at Findmypast

 

I have just read Peter's announcements section and I came back to do that!
Thanks.

 

The London Gazette is another useful free resource, especially for military promotions, civil service appointments, bankruptcy and death/probate.

Pages can be viewed, downloaded or printed.

 

I found The British Newspaper Archives much easier to use than the equivalent on Findmypast.
The British Newspaper Archives highlight your search keywords when you look at an image, so it is easy to find the relevant section of the page.
Findmypast do not highlight the search keywords, so you have to check the title of the article and read through it to find the relevant section.
If you download an image, The British Newspaper Archives use a unique file name, but Findmypast call every download A4 which is not very helpful.

 

I have bookmarked the page...after realising i had registered ages ago! it's funny how you forget what sites you use. I haven't found anything about an ancestor as yet but will keep looking

 

Also I find the BNA search system is more able to pinpoint which article you want. If you have a FMP subscription I'd recommend using BNA for the search, and when you've found what you want, FMP for the download.

 

Three sites that on first sight would give little information for researchers outside the countries concerned are Trove - Australian newspapers; Papers Past - for NZ; and the Welsh newspapers. All are free. It is amazing how much was reported in fine detail from other countries in these papers.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper?q=
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/home

 

The lastest findmypast newsletter says that they are adding thousands of new pages every day.
So maybe just keep on checking daily!
I wonder how long it will take for your article to be added?

 

I think you'll find this is for Charles Steele senior, Charles Francis Steele's father, who died 20 September 1914.

 

Really looking forward to having the time to look through these three links - just the 'ticket' to Australia!

 

Had a quick look at the BNA site but there doesn't appear to be an entry for a Steele funeral in 1911 (or 1912).

If you are not registered with the BNA at the moment, there is an offer of 15 free credits if you do so "to help get you started" as the site says BUT it's not 100% clear whether you actually have to stump up money to take advantage of this (cheapest offer is £6.95 for 500 credits over 2 days) - but I suspect you might not want to do this!

 

Hi Heilan Lass,
The Free offer is FREE. I took advantage of it and all I had to do was register, no money or credit card or anything.
15 credits give you 3 newspaper images. A great starting point.

 

Has everyone now given up with the Birthday Book Challenge? I was hoping that with all the activity on the Forum we may have come across some descendants of those mentioned in the book. I did contact someone on Ancestry who had several of the names in their tree and told them about the Birthday Book, but unfortunately didn't get a reply.