A selection of abstracts from Kent newspapers are offered on this website. I like newspapers as they often offer insights into our ancestors lives that dusty records can’t. Mind you sometimes they can tell us things about our family that … Continue reading
Looks like we are not far away from the launch of The British Newspaper Archive website which is a joint venture between The British Library and Brightsolid who are the Findmypast & Scotland’s People parent company The website is live, … Continue reading
Came across this online video about the digitising programme at the British Library. During the video it says that the Newspaper Archive will be going online in the Autumn. Now I know that some of the newspapers are already online, … Continue reading
Many of us will have ancestors who ventured or were sent to Australia. A great resource apart from the usual births, marriages & deaths registers etc. is newspapers. The early newspapers recorded all the local gossip as well as national … Continue reading
