It is frustrating to have records disappear like that - I've been bitten too and now spend a lot of my time snipping, citing, saving, and backing up any newspaper mentions I need. Time consuming, but knowing I can't trust that sites like Ancestry, FindMyPast, Newspapers.com etc won't lose the rights to a database, I do the work. Even indexed stuff I save with a snip of the indexing and try to write as complete a citation as I can based on the available information.
I just keep reminding myself we'd need a second house if I kept paper copies of all my research!!!
AdrianBruce wrote: ↑05 Mar 2023 17:37Eventually my query caught Crista's eye (thanks for the suggestion) and her response was:I thanked her and commented that, if the collection had been withdrawn, it had previously made no sense to me why it still hung around. But her explanation "archived in such a way that those who had saved records from it can still click through to access them from their tree with their subscription" makes eminent sense. <SNIP>The individual newspaper titles in this database have all been reimaged and reindexed (using current technology instead of the old, clunky OCR technology that it was originally indexed with). They are available on Newspapers.com with the search functionality there that functions better with the type of searches needed to make discoveries in this type of record.
The existing database has been archived in such a way that those who had saved records from it can still click through to access them from their tree with their subscription. But, no new searches can be performed.