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historical newspaper birth, death, marriage articles etc. UK
« on: Sunday 18 February 18 05:56 GMT (UK) »
Hello everyone, I've spent a LOT of time trying  ??? ??? to work out how to research and find funeral notices, etc. I am very confused on this and not getting anywhere. Any websites you can recommend.

I am sorry I am not experienced and if you could please give me the correct link so I can go to it would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanking you all

Janice oh I am in AUS. :)

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Re: historical newspaper birth, death, marriage articles etc. UK
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 18 February 18 06:43 GMT (UK) »
Hi Janice,
   If you are after UK newspaper death and funeral notices, you can obtain a library card from the National Library of Australia or your State library which will give you free access to a variety of UK newspapers.   Here is link to National Library e-resources https://www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources/

   If you are after Australian death and funeral notices up until 1955 (with some more recent), you can use trove https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/

   There is an advanced search in trove but I like to use the ~ feature (perhaps I am lazy  :) ).   If you search for
     "fred ryan"~10
then that will find occurrences of Fred and Ryan within 10 words.  This is quite useful for death notices where they have
RYAN, at his daughter's residence, Fred, blah blah and similar.

You can use any number depending what you are searching for.
    "fred ryan"~3
will find occurrences of fred and ryan within 3 words.

 Then just choose family notices and the state and decade from the side bar.

Ros

adding : If you are after more recent death notices in Australia, then your national or state library card will give you free access to some recent major newspapers.   The ryerson index http://ryersonindex.org/search.php gives an index of death and funeral notices.

Sorry I just noticed that you said UK so ignore my trove info ...
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Re: historical newspaper birth, death, marriage articles etc. UK
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 18 February 18 06:50 GMT (UK) »
Following on from Ros, the link is here to get a library card:

https://www.nla.gov.au/getalibrarycard/

This is a sample of some of the resources:

17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
19th Century UK Periodicals
19th Century UK Periodicals
British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900
British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800-1900
British Library Newspapers, Part III: 1741-1950
British Library Newspapers, Part IV: 1732-1950
British Library Newspapers, Part V: 1746-1950
Economist Historical Archive
Financial Times Historical Archive
Illustrated London News Historical Archive
Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992
Sunday Times Digital Archive
Times Digital Archive
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive

Be aware that there are some differences in the newspaper titles/years coverage of those which can be accessed through Findmypast and the British Newspaper Archive.

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
https://search.findmypast.com.au/search/newspapers

Debra  :)

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Re: historical newspaper birth, death, marriage articles etc. UK
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 18 February 18 08:34 GMT (UK) »
You can also use FreeBMD to find the Registrations of Births, Marriages and Deaths, for England & Wales.
www.FreeBMD.org.uk/cgi/search.pl    It is free to use.
(Also notice it's BMD and not BDM!)

For Scotland you have to use Scotland's People - www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.
This is a Pay-Per-View site, where you buy credits in order to see the images.
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Re: historical newspaper birth, death, marriage articles etc. UK
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 18 February 18 09:33 GMT (UK) »
Unlike USA and OZ,we're not big ones for putting funeral notices or obituaries in the papers,so you may not find them in the UK like you do in your country. Unless your family had lots of  money of course  ;D
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