Old newspapers.

[genjen]

Has anyone else become totally engrossed in this web site?

<<link removed this is not a legitimate access for the generalpublic>>

I have just spent most of the day searching through old newspapers and finding all sorts of wonderful stuff.
The Northern Echo reports on the misdemeanours of my great great grandmother, whom I knew to have spent a substantial amount of time in prison. But it also tells of her attempted suicide whilst in custody ( she tried to cut her throat with a penknife!) - something which isn't mentioned in the quarter sessions reports. It has made me feel quite differently about her - I have always thought she was a bit of a hard character, given to stealing and hard drinking but maybe there was more to it than that.

I also now know what happened to my great grandfather's ship. Or at least I know that it went aground near Berwick and that there was to be an attempt to refloat her.

I know when he gained his second mate's certificate, when he became a master mariner and who qualified at the same time.

This is a wonderful site and I'm not sure I will ever find time to do housework again.

Jen

[ladybird]

Hi Jen
I don't have great stories like that but have managed to pin down a couple of deaths, and a birth that I'll have to look into

Oh yes ..and there was of course a John Newton who won prizes 4 years in a row for his gooseberries...don't know if he's mine though 
Sylvia

[Comosus]

How do you get access to the site? It keeps asking me for a username.

Andrew

[Tephra]

Me too, I can't get past the 'username' log on!!


Barbara

[Ecneps]

It's fascinating, I knew a relative (distant, I hasten to add!) had been in prison for stealing a few things, but when I did a search for her name, up came a court case and inquest for her father, who died after she pushed him onto the floor after threatening him with a knife   
Think I'll be on this site all day, don't know how long the access is limited to.

Barbara   

[LizzieW]

Me too, I can't get past the 'username' log on!!

I tried just putting in my name, which it rejected, but then it took me to a site which suggested that if I was a library member I should put in my bar code number and password of my library.  I did that and guess what - it rejected it!

I belong to Hampshire CC Libraries and also Manchester Libraries so I'm going to see if by going to their sites I can get in.

Otherwise - HELP Jen.

Lizzie

[behindthefrogs]

They have shut the door to everyone except members of Higher Education Establishments which are registered with them.  It is your University Library Number that they are asking for.

I was extremely annoyed because I was half way through a major track through Jackson's Oxford Journal and I had formed a list of references to go back to in order to transcribe the details.  It looks like a trip to Collingdale now.

David

[Jebber]

Try just clicking on the link in Jen's post, I have just done do with no problem.

I have also been using the same link for the past two days.

Jebber

[LizzieW]

Jebber

That's what we have been doing and this is what comes up:

Check to be sure your User Group ID or other authentication credentials are correct.
   Enter UserGroup Identification:    
   

Lizzie