British Newspaper Archives

Bute01 · Post by **Bute01** » 03 Feb 2013 16:44

I recently spent £6.95 on a two day pass on The British Newspaper Archives Website. This game me 500 credits and I was pushed to use them all in the time allowed.

I found a great range of information of my family that I would never have known - Births, Marriages & Deaths of family members, including wedding guest and presents list. I found stories about several of my ancestors who were in the church. I even found my grandfather was charged with driving with no road tax!

Images can be downloaded and I managed to 'crop' the parts I needed in Photoshop Elements.

An excellent way to spend a wet weekend!

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Post by **LornaCraig** » 03 Feb 2013 18:13

The newspaper archive is also available on FindMyPast. New pages and titles are being added all the time, so it's useful to be able to go back and search again without extra cost, if you already have a full subscription to FindMyPast.

ireneblackburn · Post by **ireneblackburn** » 03 Feb 2013 21:09

I get free access to Newspaper Archives through my library membership, (Newcastle upon Tyne), other librares also participate.

AdrianBruce · Post by **AdrianBruce** » 05 Feb 2013 14:59

So far as I understand it, library membership usually gives you access to the Gale collections, which are similar to, but not quite the same as, the other sites.

ireneblackburn · Post by **ireneblackburn** » 05 Feb 2013 22:18

Yes, Library membership is for Gale collection, I also use FindMyPast but the OCR quality is very poor and gives disappointing results.

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