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Research in Other Countries => New Zealand => New Zealand Completed Requests => Topic started by: minniehaha on Thursday 06 December 18 01:42 GMT (UK)
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Hello Everyone,
I started Papers Past - part 1V, in October 2015.
As this has now hit the twenty page limit, it is time to sign off and start a new thread.
[Keeps our Moderator happy too..... ;D :D]
Minniehaha.
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[Keeps our Moderator happy too..... ;D :D]
Minniehaha.
We don't want him picking on the Jaffas again :D :D :D
Cheers Janette
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You mean picking UP the Jaffas, don't you, Janette?
:P :P :P :P
Thanks, Minniehaha. 8)
Spades
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Thanks to Minniehaha and also the PapersPast team.
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You mean picking UP the Jaffas, don't you, Janette?
:P :P :P :P
Thanks, Minniehaha. 8)
Spades
I think she meant JAFAs'
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;D Well spotted! :D
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New Year Greetings.
While a "FARMERS' CLUB" search will not find this clipping, it was very easy re-found to bring it to PP attention.
A change from GLUE to CLUB [by PP staff] will bring it up in future FARMERS' CLUB searches.
Found by accident while researching a similar subject, and had omitted to select EXACT before actioning the search. Doubt that I would have thought to have used GLUE, as an alternative spelling, to locate a missing club report.
Alan.
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Cheers Alan!
We don't have an easy way to make spot corrections like these at this point, in the interim I'd suggest the best strategy would be to make judicious use of fuzzy search when you come across scenarios like this.
e.g. farmers club~2
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers?items_per_page=100&snippet=true&query=farmers+club%7E2 (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers?items_per_page=100&snippet=true&query=farmers+club%7E2)
Some letters are readily mistaken by the OCR process due to factors like varying image quality, or different fonts (serif vs sans for example, or i/l/j, f/t, C/G, etc), and it can be well worthwhile adding ~1 or ~2 to words that have characters or obvious variants. This will search for every one or two-character variant of that word.
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Great.
Thanks for the acknowledgement.
Having transcribed thousands of words from PapersPast search finds, I'm well aware of the recognition problems, but was unaware you did not have a ready fix, for altering the interpretation in future search requests of your retrieval system.
Over time you develop a number of techniques to locate missing copy, within a single issue, or a series, over a time period, by one masthead. Or go looking for re-prints of material of interest you have located from the old Library index cards, as having been published in the AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS or the Christchurch THE WEEKLY PRESS. [Publications yet to be digitized]
Without your continued efforts, these heritage items would only be available to those who have access to the original print. Great work - keep it up please.
Alan.
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Hi folks!
It's been a busy start to the PP year, and we've got a couple of releases coming to you in close succession over the coming weeks.
The first is a small release (around 2000 pages) of a pair of 1970's-1980's magazine titles:
Te Kaea (1979-81)
Tu Tangata (1981-1987)
Those of you with Maori heritage might find this interesting - the relatively recent date of the publications is a bit of a change from the usual PP scenario too. All going well, it should be up next week sometime.
In the weeks following that, we'll be putting out a newspapers release, containing:
Lyttelton Times (1915-1920)
Manawatu Standard (1924-1945)
Nelson Evening Mail (1923-1930)
Press (Jan-Jun 1887, Sep-Nov 1903)
Waikato Times (1922-1928)
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Thank you.
Please keep up the good work. All very much appreciated.
Alan.
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Hi folks - the newspaper release above has just gone live. Also, we're now over 6M pages, and creeping up to 70M articles - a little stats trivia for you there.
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Thank you!! ;D
Minniehaha.
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Many thanks :D
Cheers
KHP
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Wonderful. Thanks PapersPast. :)
~ Lu
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Great stuff, thank you! 👍👍🌺
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Good morning, citizens of Rootschat!
Our collaborative partners and ourselves have a new newspapers release for you, it's just gone live on the site. The new additions are:
Bay of Plenty Beacon (1946-1950)
Feilding Star (1921-1924)
Franklin Times (1921-1933)
Hutt News (1946-1948)
King Country Chronicle (1921-1939)
Shannon News (Jun 1921-1929)
Thames Star (1921-1938)
Waipa Post (Apr 1911-1935)
Western Star (1921-1942)
There's a long list of organisations to thank for their help in making this happen, please feel free to give a little appreciation to the groups acknowledged on the links to the new titles on the front page :)
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Thankyou :)
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Wow! Thanks so much PP, fingers will be busy tonight :D
Cheers
KHP
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Thank you soooo much Papers Past.
More discoveries to be made..... ;D
Minniehaha.
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I hope you make a few discoveries! I found my ggf's obituary, and a few more family threads.
FYI the next content release is about a week away, and will be quite a different beastie - it will happen in our Magazines & Journals section around mid-week, all going well.
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Hi folks,
yesterday saw another 140,000-ish pages added to PP - we added a large run of Ashburton Guardian up to 1950, the entire run of Industrial Unionist (1913), and we extended the Wairarapa Daily Times collection up to 1938.
We've also updated the information on the "help" page to include more search examples and techniques, some additional notes around zooming and the mobile view, cookies, and research approach tips. The additional information comes from the user satisfaction survey we ran a few months ago. We had a few responses to that survey that included comments like "It needs boolean search tools" and "where have the search filters gone?", and it was unfortunate that we had no way to get in touch with those people so the best I could do was to improve the help page to cover off all the stuff that came up.
I know you folks have a few tricks up your sleeve, but you might find a few things here and there useful in the updated info. As always, just let me know if you have any specific questions, I'm always glad to help.
Happy hunting!
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Thank you! All your hard work is very much appreciated.
Off to find out some more about what those ancestors got up to..... ;D
Minniehaha.
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Thanks PP and for your hard work to keep our fingers busy! :D Unfortunately, I don't have any ancestors in those papers, but happy digging to those who do :D
Cheers
KHP
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As always a BIG Thank you from me to.
Alan.
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Excellent, Papers Past. Thanks. :)
~ Lu
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...and now for something completely different:
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/forest-and-bird (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/forest-and-bird)
Perhaps it's not of the broadest genealogical interest, unless you're a bird, but it's a beautiful publication and we've scanned it in full colour.
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Hi everyone,
Exciting news!
From an article just published in the latest issue of The New Zealand Genealogist comes a mention that the New Zealand Police Gazette, at present digitized and available on Archway, will soon be uploaded on to Papers Past.
Can Papers Past provide an approximate date when this may take place?
I recall having the Police Gazette on my Papers Past wish-list a couple of years ago, so I'm very pleased to hear it's going to happen.
Spades
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Can Papers Past provide an approximate date when this may take place?
Hi Spades! Sheepishly I can tell you that it happened back in early August. We added three Police Gazette titles to the Magazines section of the collection, giving combined coverage of 1863-1945.
I was on and off work at the time following a head injury and I wasn't as on-the-ball with notifying you all as I normally am. I'm very sorry about that. It's a cracking good source though, we're really proud to make this available on the site - it's been a long time coming.
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It is indeed "a cracking good source"! Much to be discovered here, thank you!
Hope you have fully recovered and are now back to being your usual self.
Best wishes,
Minniehaha.
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Thanks Papers Past, I hoped you're now fully recovered. A sincere thank you to you and all your colleagues for such a brilliant resource.
The Police Gazette's available are:
New Zealand Police Gazette (1877-1945)
Canterbury Police Gazette (1863-1877)
Otago Police Gazette (1861-1877)
Spades
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Oh WOW! ;D ;D ;D
SO much easier to search and read results!
I just tried to search using 'deserters' and got 1544 results. For those interested the Gazette using different headings to differentiate the type of deserter, so you can narrow the search by trying;
Deserters from Merchant Vessel.
Deserters from His Majesty’s Service.
ABSENTEES, DESERTERS, ETC., FROM HIS MAJESTY’S SERVICE
Spades
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It's brilliant isn't it!! Makes those rascals so much easier to find. ;D ;D
Minniehaha.
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And there's over 700 Missing Friends articles.
Great stuff.
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Question:
Not being in the slightest 'tech savvy', can the pages that are presented side-on, be rotated please?
Minniehaha.
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Aren't you lucky with your finds! :D My line is squeaky clean, no dirty laundry flapping about, hold on, there was someone murdered, but that was about 13 years ago! so not a closet find ;D
Keep those fingers busy and hope you find more.
Hope you are back to yourself now PP :)
Cheers
KHP
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Hello Minniehaha.
A lot of computer packages will include a programme that will allow for the rotating of an image, It's just a case of finding what you already have access too, and then we can take a few screen shots showing the steps that need to be taken to achieve your objective.
Feel free to PM me if you wish, and I will see if I can help. Lost access to a good, for me, programme when computers up scaled from 32 to 64 bit technology, but I have the basic ablilty with at least two progammes that came with my new computer's package.
Alan.
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Question:
Not being in the slightest 'tech savvy', can the pages that are presented side-on, be rotated please?
We didn't have the resources to add a rotate-on-the-fly software feature to the site, but we played around with this and tested different out-of-the-box setups. Some had rotated images, and it wasn't quite the straightforward situation you might imagine. When those images are rotated away from their natural print orientation, they become much wider, which causes problems for scaling the material. You end up with a choice between either having a readability issue with the landscape width stuff scaled down to fit the width of a portrait page, or having all of the material more readable but some of it rotated. A third option was landscape-rotated and eveything scaled in proportion, which makes everything small, so this was a non-starter.
After a lot of back-and-forth, we went with the second option. It felt like the most day-to-day usable of the choices - it's still a compromise, but less compromise than the others.
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Hello again.
In regards to my above offer. If you are particularly interested in the likes of the large MISSING FRIENDS tables, and would like a copy for your records, it would be possible to process the image as two halves which could then be joined for a landscape display. Then reproduced as A4 or A3 landscape for your kept paper research records.
Alan.
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Thank you Papers Past & Fresh Fields.
I might have to borrow a ten year old to help out here. I had one once, but he flew the coop many moons ago. ;D
Minniehaha.
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Hi folks, just letting you know that we're doing a bunch of under-the-hood work on PP today, and this will make some cookies go bad on some people's browsers. It may not impact many people, but I thought it best to let you all know. Unfortunately, this is hard to avoid - but fortunately it's also super simple to fix, so it's not too bad.
If you see anything funny happen particularly with lists of search results, just close any PP tabs you have open, delete the PP cookies from your browser, then you're all good to go again.
I'm around to help if you have any questions :-)
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Hello folks -
It's new content release day in our newspapers collection - this is a sizeable release from a page-count perspective, 140,000. The new additions include:
Franklin Times (1934-1945)
Manawatu Times (1929-1936)
Nelson Evening Mail (1931-1937)
Northern Advocate (1946-1949)
Timaru Herald (1921-1928)
Waihi Daily Telegraph (1942,1945-1947,1949-1950)
Waikato Times (1929-1935)
If any of you have any issues seeing the new material, try clearing your cookies and doing a hard refresh on the webpage (Ctrl-F5 on a windows machine, Shift-Cmd-R on a Mac), that will sort things out.
Enjoy!
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What a nice surprise PP ... thanks very much. :)
Cheers
KHP
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Oh wow!!! Household chores will be put on the back burner for a while. ;D
Thank you Papers Past.
Minniehaha.
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Just as well it is left-overs for tea, nice little snippets about my late father, a little bit teary eyed, but nevertheless, a bit more information I never had.
Cheers
KHP
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Enjoy we well. THANKS again.
Alan.
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Hello folks, I'm guessing that many of you will, like myself, be in lockdown. I hope you're all doing ok!
We're very lucky to be able to work remotely, so we're doing what we can to make this time a productive one for folks that use PP - we've got a content release coming your way in the next few days.
It will contain:
• Gisborne Times (1901-1937)
• Hokitika Guardian (1917-1940)
• Opotiki News (1938-1950)
• Saturday Advertiser (July 1875-1878)
• Wanganui Chronicle (1860-1869)
It includes a decent nibble into the 20th century coverage of Gisborne, and fills a gap we had in the Wanganui area too. I hope you have fun digging in to this.
All the best from the PP team - stay safe in there ;)
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Many thanks PP.
Will definitely be into the Wanganui Chronicle.
Ian C
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Thank you PP :D
Something there to keep us busy, while in lock down.
Stay safe
KHP
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Hello PapersPast
As our Gisborne roots go all the way back to the Black Friday Massacre, any Gisborne release is welcome.
Thanks.
Alan.
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Wonderful, thank you! :)
Minniehaha.
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Thank you
Wanganui for me too :)
Barbara
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...aaaand it's live.
Do a Ctrl-F5 refresh on the PP page in your browser (Shift-cmd-R on a Mac) and it should show up for you.
Have fun folks! Let me know if you have any issues, I'm here to help if you need me.
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Fantastic, Papers Past! ;D
Thank you from all of us to you and your colleagues for all your hard work and dedication.
Spades
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Hi folks, just letting you know that we're putting out a smaller-sized content release later this week. The pandemic did put a few kinks in our workflow so this release was originally part of a larger release, and the remainder of the content will follow later in the year (we hope!).
I hope you're all staying well - all the best from the PP team.
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Thank you for giving us the heads up. It is something we get quite excited about as who knows what we will find next! ;D ;D
Minniehaha.
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Thanks PP. Additions are always welcome.
Believe I've got three days worth of research lined up at the Auckland Archives branch. Was waiting for level one, but now still also find myself in catch up mode.
Though the owner of an essential service business, family clipped my wings during lockdown, due to my age.
Alan.
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Hi folks, we got the release out yesterday so it should be showing up for you all by now.
As I mentioned, the other titles and dates we had originally intended to be part of this will now become the next release due on PP. I'll give you all a heads-up when this gets close, and don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions!
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Hello
From a quick look, it appears the new releases are:-
Latest additions to Newspapers (June 2020):
Marlborough Press (1860-1861,1865-1883,1886)
Matamata Record (1925-1939)
Alan.
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Thank you PP :D Found some wonderful snippets :)
Cheers
KHP
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Hi folks - just letting you know that another batch of papers just went live on the site:
Feilding Star (1925-1929)
Hawera Star (Jun 1924-1935)
Manawatu Herald (1921-1939)
Marlborough Daily Times (1880-1888)
Te Puke Times (1921-1950)
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Thanks PapersPast ... :)
~ Lu
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You're very welcome :)
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Thank you!! Much appreciated. ;D
Minniehaha.
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Thanks very much! :D
Cheers
KHP
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Hi folks -
I thought I'd pass a wee search tip along for Births/Deaths notices, helpfully prompted by an email I got from Rootschat user Thamesite:
She was having difficulty searching for a surname that very clearly was printed on a newspaper page, and despite the letters of the name being recognised correctly, the name wasn't showing up in her search results. Here's an example, where I've done a search for "Brien" - https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THS19260318.2.9.1?query=brien (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THS19260318.2.9.1?query=brien)
You'll notice that "Brien" isn't highlighted, despite the letters appearing correctly in the "text" view of the article.
Our search index treats strings of characters with a space before and after them as being words, so
I figured out that the ".—" characters immediately after the name, with no space, have a big impact.
They're effectively turning the name "Brien" into "Brien.—On".
No-one is going to search for a name "Brien.—On"!
Unfortunately this looks like a very common typographic convention in older newspapers within family and personal notices - this means all those names that are followed by ".—", as they often were in those notices, might well be missing from your searches.
There is a solution - to find any "missing" results, search for the surname followed by an asterisk (boolean wildcard). For example:
brien*
This search trick works on the "all of these words" search setting.
Substitute "brien" for any surname you're looking for, and give it a crack! Good luck all, and thanks again to Thamesite.
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Thanks for the tip.
I had noted from time to time that highlighting was sometimes rather random, and this point will help to explain it.
For a period the NZ HERALD in particular, was a very heavily inked press with many bleeds and blotches, which the human eye tends to ignore, but evidently, not the optical reader.
Alan.
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You're welcome Alan. Spot-on correct about some editions of the NZ Herald - the ones we digitised from around the WW1 period have a lot of ink-bleed and print-quality issues.
If any of you ever see what looks like random-looking highlighting, it's worth taking a moment to click on the text tab just above the article image to see how the words in question have been identified. It'll give you a few leads on how you might spot other unidentified occurrences elsewhere in the collection by searching using a few basic boolean tricks. Fuzzy search (name~1), wildcard substitutions (Auckl*) and character substitutions (Dun?din) are the obvious approaches to consider, but it really is very case-by-case!
As always, don't hesitate to get in touch if you want a hand :)
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Hello again.
As I started my researching hobby long before the internet, when we were obliged to spend hours in libraries, archives, and museums, going through their holdings. It’s a privilege to now be able to sit in front of a computer, at home, and have access to all the material on offer, on line.
However it is important to remember the systems in place to optically scan, and then digitally reproduce the written word, does have it’s limitations.
Because you don’t find an item in a search engine service, does not mean that it is not there.
Parts of articles can be carried forward to other columns within the paper or book, leaving you to miss an all important associated item, with regard to your search. Likewise imperfections in the inking and printing thereof of type, can see key searched for words being missed by the scanner.
If looking for further, and or more detailed press reports of an incident, do searches also for secondary associated items, that are included in the material that you have collected.
It can often be found that by the time an incident gets to a court hearing, the place name of the incident is more technically correct; so a different name or spelling, BUT the attending named persons in the first press reports, will also be those called upon to give evidence, to the court. So also search using the named attending police, medical providers, teacher, instructor or priest etc.
Tonight I decided to check once again, that I had not overlooked an item in my MYERS research of late.
I set my search criteria as “Myers*” and attached below are a few examples of highlighted text findings from 3,345 hits, over a seven year search period, with adverts excluded. They are an example of what I call random hits.
Happy hunting,
Alan.
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Plus a completely random selection within one search hit, was recieved, but not sure wether it will replicate.
OPEN ENDED all these words search for “Charles 3rd Waikato Militia” results giving 513 hits.
In the link below there were many highlighted words, and spaces, that to my eye were quite random.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TC18601110.2.4?items_per_page=100&query=Charles+3rd+Waikato+Militia&snippet=true&sort_by=byDA
Alan.
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Very interesting Alan, I always appreciate the visibility that extra eyeballs bring, I would never have spotted that myself.
Looking at the page-level view of that article is also quite informative, and suggests some reasons why the highlighting isn't great on this one - https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/colonist/1860/11/10/1 (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/colonist/1860/11/10/1) - it looks to me like the page was printed with a bit of radial skew. Nowadays we usually run an automated image de-skew process that mitigates this, but it's possible that this image predates that, or somehow missed that step. The follow-on impact of that is that the automated zoning we map out for article boundaries (which is obviously all based around rectilinear shapes with 90 degree corners) actually doesn't map very well on this skewed article. In turn, the highlighting (which is based on those automated zones) doesn't map.
You'll notice that the highlighting in the "Journal of events at Taranaki" article is often one-and-a-half lines above the word it should relate to, and a little to the side. I'll pass this one back to the digitisation team and see if this is something we can maybe reprocess to improve.
Backtracking slightly to typographic conventions throwing off word/name recognition, and the convention of having ".—" immediately following a name in a family notice: A key thing to keep in mind is the context of that convention - in the places this is used (birth or death notices), you'll find other typical keywords like "Born" or "missed", so an approach with a wildcard could be augmented with those other keywords to focus the results on those types of things.
e.g.
brien* born
...will surface additional relevant results that wouldn't have shown up in a straight "Brien born" search.
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Also, what an excellent set of research tips Alan.
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Hello EMMERSON.
Herewith an exercise in searching out a series within a regular newspaper. One article caught, my eye when undertaking some pioneer research. It took me three goes to complete the series, which I'm about to offer to descendants, including further research by members of this forum and volunteers from the Waiuku Museum.
As stated in an earlier post, just because you DONT GET A HIT, it does not mean that the item is not in print. Try alternative search criteria.
Examples attached, plus link to GRANDMAMA'S Story thread.
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=839360.0
Keep up your good work.
Alan.
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Clipping examples of where the continuing series has NOT been linked. Not found using "GRANDMAMA'S STORY" nor "By A Waikato Lady". So went to the publication listings, and page image searching, on possible days of publication, as per table above.
Alan.
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You'll put me out of a job Alan :)
This is an excellent example for anyone wanting to get a bit more out of a lot of content. Doing a text search to find things is a great time-saver, but if you have the confidence to go looking for specific pages, dates, articles, you can sometimes plug the gaps that search can't fill.
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Hi folks,
Just letting you know that we've got a pre-xmas release coming your way, it should be ready next month and will include:
• Waipawa Mail 1878-1940
• Northland Age 1904-1950
• Pahiatua Herald 1893-1943
• Feilding Guardian 1879-1880
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Looking forward to that. Thank you!
Minniehaha.
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Looking forward to that. Thank you!
Minniehaha.
After what this year has been like, couldn't agree more with you Minnie.
Cheers
KHP
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Keep them comming.
Thanks.
Alan.
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Thanks PapersPast. :)
~ Lu
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Just a quick update for you all - the new material should be live by midday on Thursday NZ time.
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Fantastic news!
Thanks very much, Papers Past team. :D :D
Spades
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The new release is live on Papers Past now - enjoy!
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Many thanks PapersPast. :)
And extra thanks too for your efforts during this "rather trying" year. Much appreciated. :)
~ Lu
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You're very welcome Lucy, thanks for the kind words.
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Hi folks, happy new year to you all!
Some of you may recall that last year we ran a survey on the site asking for feedback from people. Some of you may have contributed your thoughts - and if so, thank you.
I just wanted to follow-up with you and let you all know that we have introduced some small changes to the site, informed by the feedback we got, hopefully to make the site a little bit more helpful.
The first two of these changes are visible by clicking inside the search box:
1 - you can now choose to search either all of the newspaper content or just the most recent content release
2 - we have included a link to the search help beside the search box, so people can more easily see how to do things like removing words from their search results, and other boolean tricks.
The other change is a little more subtle, to help people keep good references:
3 - we have included the page numbers in the information that appears alongside an article. You'll see on the right of the article that appears on https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GIST19010411.2.23, you can see that the bibliographic info now includes the page number. e.g:
CONFUSING CABLEGRAMS. Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 79, 11 April 1901, Page 2
This is included when you print out an article from the site too.
I hope this is of some help to those of you that took the time to provide feedback. We will be running the survey again later this year if any of you have any more good ideas!
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We love the Papers Past team, and all the great work you are doing for us, the researchers.
It is very much appreciated.
Alan.
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Cheers Alan!
I just realised I also forgot to mention - we've got a content release coming up at the end of the month:
- Manawatu Times (1937-1945)
- Nelson Evening Mail (1938-1945)
- Timaru Herald (1929-1935)
- Waikato Times (1936-1945)
I'll let you all know when it's live.
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As always .... many thanks, PapersPast. :)
~ Lu
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PapersPast I came across your new search terms (recent content release) a day or two ago. Really pleaseD with this addition as I do not need to plough previously searched articles and sift out the new - makes life easier, searching anyway.
Thank you :)
lil
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PapersPast I came across your new search terms (recent content release) a day or two ago. Really pleaseD with this addition as I do not need to plough previously searched articles and sift out the new - makes life easier, searching anyway.
Thank you :)
lil
You're welcome, glad it helps!
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WAIKATO TIMES
That's just great news for me. It will have me cooking once out. My home patch.
Alan.
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Hi folks, just letting you know that the content release has just gone live on the site.
If it isn't showing up for you immediately, you may wish to do a hard refresh on the page (Ctrl-F5 or Command-R).
Have fun digging!
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Will do - thanks.
Alan.
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Have fun digging!
Certainly will ... as usual, thanks for your hard work.
Cheers
KHP
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Thank you Papers Past. More windows into the past to be explored. Wonderful!
Minniehaha.
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Content release time! Live on the site a couple of hours ago, we added another 100,000 pages, comprised of:
Fielding Star (1930-April 1934)
Star (Christchurch) (1921-June 1935)
Sun (Auckland) (March 1927-September 1930)
I'm very sorry I didn't give you all a bit more heads-up, I've just gotten back from paternity leave :-) Mother and daughter both doing very well.
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CONGRATULATIONS!! [Father still recovering?... ;D ]
Thanks again for all the hard work done at Papers Past. We do appreciate it.
Minniehaha.
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CONGRATULATIONS! Fun times ahead.
Ditto to what Minnie said. :D
Cheers
KHP
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WOW !! Wonderful news ... deliveries from both the Stork, and the P/P team !!
Congratulations and best wishes on the arrival of your little girl. :)
And thanks, as always, for the the latest batch of papers.
~ Lu
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Congratulations, and thanks for the new additions.
Alan.
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Thanks for the kind words - yes, I expect I will get a night's sleep sometime in 2023 :)
I'll have to keep my act together as best I can, because we have a very busy year planned for you all. The next newspaper release will be out before the end of June, and there are other new materials we're going to be adding to the site soon too.
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Just enjoy it all while you can. They grow up sooo quickly. ;D
Looking forward to the new releases. Great work, thank you.
Minniehaha.
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Good morning folks -
Live on the site as of a few minutes ago, we added:
Huntly Press and District Gazette (Dec 1912-1932)
Inangahua Times (misc. issues 1920-1929, 1930-May 1942)
Motueka Star (May-Dec 1902, misc. issues 1906)
New Zealand Times (1921-Jan 1927)
Otago Witness (1921-1926)
Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser (Jun 1886-Sep 1893)
Putaruru Press (Oct 1923-1950)
Waihi Daily Telegraph (1948, 1951)
Wairoa Bell (misc. issues 1892-1919)
Enjoy!
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Brilliant!!! Thank you very much. Will keep us occupied through the winter months. ;D
Minniehaha.
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Wonderful ... thanks PapersPast team. :)
Can see a few titles there which I'll look forward to exploring.
~ Lu
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Thank you so much. :D Something to keep me occupied in the next few days.
Cheers
KHP
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A local paper GREAT. - Alan
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Hi folks -
...and now for something completely different. Later this week we hope to have the New Zealand Journal of Agriculture from 1910-1960 live in the Magazines & Journals section of the site.
I don't really have a strong grasp on how it might stack up as a genealogy resource, and some of the farming science in its pages has been superceded. That said, it has some cracking good recipes in its pages. A content release for the baking enthusiasts perhaps?
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Thanks, as always, PaperPast. :)
Sounds most interesting ... and recipes as a bonus ... wow !! ;D
Look forward to browsing its pages.
~ Lu
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That said, it has some cracking good recipes in its pages. A content release for the baking enthusiasts perhaps?
Thank you. Could be some recipes from the Women's Division of Federated Farmers.
Cheers
KHP
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Big Thanks Papers Past.
Many a time I have had to make a request for an issue of research intrest, to be brought out of storage, plus book a viewing at one of Waikato's libraries. Now I will be able to do it at home any time rain disrupts my out doors plans.
Great accounts of pioneering families therein.
Alan.
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Hi folks -
...and now for something completely different. Later this week we hope to have the New Zealand Journal of Agriculture from 1910-1960 live in the Magazines & Journals section of the site.
I don't really have a strong grasp on how it might stack up as a genealogy resource, and some of the farming science in its pages has been superceded. That said, it has some cracking good recipes in its pages. A content release for the baking enthusiasts perhaps?
I think it used to have a children's page too! As country kids we belonged to all sorts of children's pages in all sorts of publications.
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You never know what you're going to find in Papers Past. I once found that my great grandfather came third in a wheelbarrow race and now in the NZ Journal of Agriculture 1923 I found the names and milk yields of two of my great aunt's cows.
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Aaah ... PapersPast. Sure is a treasure trove. :)
I love the story of your particular "finds", Charlie Bucket !!! ;D
~ Lu
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A question for PapersPast.
Are you able to provide any timeline as to when the Taranaki Daily News will be added to on the PP site. Particularly interested in the mid to late 1930s period.
Many thanks.
Ian C
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Hi Ian, we're working on this in sections, at this stage it might be appearing in the next financial year, so sometime after July 2022.
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Hi folks, I hope you're all doing well!
We're gearing up for what we think is a quite significant release, this will be going live hopefully next week:
Kaikoura Star (misc. issues 1880-1922, 1923-1950)
Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser (1905-1933)
Taranaki Central Press (November 1936-July 1937)
Press (1946-1961)
This is the first time we've pushed into the 1960's - this is the first release in a series that will see the Press digitised up to 1995 on the site, thanks to the help of the teams at Press and Stuff/Fairfax, who gave us their permission to do this.
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Oooh ... exciting. :) Certainly looking forward to exploring the "Press".
Many thanks PapersPast and associate teams - your efforts are always so appreciated. :)
~ Lu
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New releases always appreciated.
Thanks to your teams.
Alan.
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Morning folks - just letting you know that the content mentioned above, including the Press up to 1961, is now live on PP - https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers).
Enjoy!
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WOW !!! Great work ! Off to explore.
Thanks again. :)
~ Lu
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Not genealogy related, but I came across this gem of a headline: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19610117.2.151 (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19610117.2.151)
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Wonderful! Just what we need to cheer us up in lock down. Thank you!
Minniehaha.
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Not genealogy related, but I came across this gem of a headline: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19610117.2.151 (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19610117.2.151)
Brilliant!! How we have moved on. [And up!]
Minniehaha.
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Season's greetings to you all -
We're getting a post-new-year content release ready for you, it should be going live in mid-January. After that, we'll be preparing the next release of the Press, so we hope to keep you folks busy for a while over the coming months.
January:
- Wanganui Chronicle 1920-1950
- Timaru Herald, 1936-1945
- Taranaki Daily News, 1921-1928
- Southland Times, 1921, 1928
- Te Awamutu Courier, 1936-1950
And next after that (February/March?) we have:
Stay well out there folks - all the best from the Papers Past team!
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Wonderful news > especially re: the"Press" > ... so looking forward to that in particular. :)
Very many thanks "Team PapersPast" for all your hard graft and efforts during the year, please know that it is very much appreciated here at RootsChat. :)
Best wishes to you all for a happy Christmas and bright New Year. :)
~ Lu
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Thanks PapersPast
I echo Lu's comments :)..... and my family will be eternally grateful that the release is in January and not now, or it could be sandwiches for Christmas dinner ;D
All the best for the New Year :)
Barbara
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Thank you PP. I echo Lu's comments. :)
Have a merry christmas and all the best for the new year.
Cheers
KHP
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Thank you! It is always wonderful to trawl through the old newspapers to see what the ancestors [and even those still living], got up to. ;D ;D
Christmas greetings to all and fingers crossed for a better 2022.
Minniehaha.
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You're all very welcome! It's a real pleasure to work on something that gives back to this community. I hope you all have a good holiday break, we'll see you in the new year 8).
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Righto, the January release is now live, containing:
Wanganui Chronicle 1920-1950
Timaru Herald, 1936-1945
Taranaki Daily News, 1921-1928
Southland Times, 1921, 1928
Te Awamutu Courier, 1936-1950
Enjoy!
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Enjoy we will.
I'm straight into the Taranaki Daily News, for an open research project of mine.
As always, THANK YOU.
Alan.
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Good morning all - for your enjoyment, we've just released the Press up to the end of 1971 on the site. Happy hunting!
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Wow!!! Wonderful. Thank you.
Minniehaha.
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Oooh ... that's one I've been waiting for. ;D
Many thanks (as always), Team PapersPast :)
~ Lu
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Excellent news. ALAN.
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Good morning all!
We've just released a new batch of content on PP - in particular this one really improves the coverage for the West Coast of the South Island and also for Hawke's Bay, through the period of the big earthquake.
Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette (June 1887-1891)
Grey River Argus (1921-1935)
Hawke’s Bay Tribune (1921-September 1936)
Poverty Bay Independent (March 1885-1886)
Poverty Bay Standard (October 1872-1876, 1881-1884)
Waimate Daily Advertiser (1905-May 1906, 1920-1929)
Enjoy!
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I particularly like that there's new coverage for the West Coast, South Island. Yay !!! 8)
Many thanks for your efforts PapersPast in producing this batch through what must have been "trying times" for you.
As always, very much appreciated. :)
~ Lu
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Thanks Lucy! This content all came from our collaborative programme - you might be interested to know that the Grey River Argus additions were funded in partnership with a Wellington woman, she chose the title and paid for half of it to get it online. Normally we partner with various community or civic groups, but she took this on herself - so we owe a very big thanks to her for this.
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Thanks PapersPast for that info.
What a wonderful gesture. :)
And from one Wellington woman to another > and a most generous Wellington woman she is > I extend my huge vote of thanks. :)
~ Lu
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Good morning folks!
I've been remiss in updating you, my apologies! We've got a content release going live on the site this morning, including the Press up to 1979 and the Wairarapa Age up to 1938. This release also includes some gap-filling for the Timaru Herald and the Waikato Times.
Happy hunting :)
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Fantastic!! Thank you for all your hard work. We do very much appreciate it....... :)
Minniehaha.
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Great news!
Many thanks to you and all the Papers Past team.
Spades
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Thank you. As others have said, it is appreciated all the work you do behind the scenes for us.
Cheers
KHP
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Thank you. As others have said, it is appreciated all the work you do behind the scenes for us.
Cheers
KHP
Always a pleasure KHP.
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:) Many thanks PapersPast ... as usual, most appreciative of your team's effort. :)
~ Lu
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Thank you PAPERSPAST
Additional copy, is always appreciated.
Alan.
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A question for PapersPast.
Are you able to provide any timeline as to when the Taranaki Daily News will be added to on the PP site. Particularly interested in the mid to late 1930s period.
Many thanks.
Ian C
PP
Any further update on this please.
Thanks
Ian C
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PP
Any further update on this please.
Thanks
Ian C
Hi Ian - no problem, there will be issues of the Taranaki Daily News up to 1935 in our next batch.
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Many thanks.
Look forward to it.
Ian C
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Time for more content folks - these additions have just gone live on the site:
- Bratska Sloga (1899)
- Dominion (1921-1934)
- Southland Times (1929-1936)
- Taranaki Daily News (1929-1935)
Enjoy!
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We will very much enjoy. Thank you!! ;D
Minniehaha.
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Thank you. An early xmas present!.
KHP
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Brilliant :)
Thanks very much, Papers Past team!
Spades
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Oooh ...wonderful, PapersPast. :) Many thanks. :)
~ Lu
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Many thanks for the latest batch of Taranaki Daily News.
Any timetable for the following years.
Have a good Christmas.
Thanks
Ian C
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Just discovered this, not sure if we received notification?
Latest additions to Newspapers (February 2023):
Auckland Examiner (1856-1861)
Mana (Auckland) (1977-1978)
Minniehaha.
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Excellent! Thanks Minniehaha ;D
No, we didn't.
Spades
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Thank you for the release.
Found a number of AUCKLAND EXAMINER references to family. All not seen before, but affirming family oral history accounts.
Great to be able to find hard copy.
Thanks PP.
Alan.
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Greetings folks!
We have a new content release that has just gone live on the site a few minutes ago.
Latest additions to Newspapers (May 2023):
Grey River Argus (1936-1949)
Hauraki Plains Gazette (Aug 1921-1950)
Hawke's Bay Tribune (Oct 1936-Jan 1937)
Manu Rere (Cook Islands) (Nov-Dec 1870)
Otago Witness (1927-Jun 1932)
Press (1980-1989)
Samoan Reporter (Mar 1845-May 1862)
Enjoy!
Also, I'm extremely sorry for the lack of notifications - that's my fault, things have been very busy at this end
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Thank you!! For me, delving into the 'Otago Witness' will be a wonderful treat.
No worries about the non-notification; we can keep an eye on the recent releases. :)
We very much appreciate all the good work you and your team are doing.
Minniehaha.
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No worries about the non-notification; we can keep an eye on the recent releases. :)
Minniehaha.
I second that, there is always someone who is eagle-eyed to spot the new ones.
Thank you for the new additions - Hauraki Plains I hope will give me a little snippet or two.
Cheers
KHP
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Thanks PapersPast
... I look forward to exploring the Westland and Canterbury new releases. :) :)
~ Lu
WOW !!! Just had to come back and tell that I've finally SOLVED a very longstanding family mystery thanks to an article found in the "Grey River Argus" of 1942. Yee ha !! ;D ;D ;D
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WOW !!! Just had to come back and tell that I've finally SOLVED a very longstanding family mystery thanks to an article found in the "Grey River Argus" of 1942. Yee ha !! ;D ;D ;D
Congratulations :D Just goes to show that taking time out from digging, and having patience, you will finally be rewarded when they want you to find the information.
Cheers
KHP
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Pleased for you Lu, you have earned a break in your own research, considering how much you contribute to the research of other members.
Papers Past also appreciate the feed back that lets them know, that all their diligent work put into going digital, is so worth while.
Alan.
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Thanks ... always nice to be able to share a good news story. :)
This particular "now-solved" one, has though just about cost me, my kids inheritance ... but think how much "richer" they'll be, for having a more complete family tree. ;D ;D
~ Lu
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.. but think how much "richer" they'll be, for having a more complete family tree. ;D ;D
~ Lu
;D
But - congratulations!
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Thanks mckha. ;D :)
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Greetings folks,
We have a newspaper release that has just gone live this morning. A mix of new titles, gap filling, and extensions.
• Greymouth Evening Star (1921-1950)
• New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian (1851, 1855-1863, misc. issues 1852, 1864)
• Southland Times (1895, misc. issues 1893-1894, 1896-1905)
• Temuka Leader (1929)
• Waipukurau Press (1906-18 July 1936)
• Wairarapa Times-Age (April 1938-June 1944)
See the 'What's New' section on https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers) for links to each paper.
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More goodies!! Thank you for all your hard work. Very much appreciated.
Minniehaha.
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Wonderful, PapersPast ... very many thanks. :) :)
~ Lu
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Many thanks PapersPast.
Have found new stuff in the NZ Spectator and the Wairarapa Times-Age.
Do you have a timetable for the next batch of Taranaki Daily News?
Ian C
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Great to hear you've uncovered some gold in there, Ian. No specific dates at this stage for the Taranaki Daily News, but we are aiming to release more this year.
Many thanks PapersPast.
Have found new stuff in the NZ Spectator and the Wairarapa Times-Age.
Do you have a timetable for the next batch of Taranaki Daily News?
Ian C
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Thanks PapersPast.
Look forward to seeing them in due course.
Ian C
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Thank you to all of the Papers Past team for the updates about new releases and for the new research opportunities for genealogists.
Best wishes to all of you,
Spades
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And thank you also to the groups and individuals who help with the funding for this.
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Thanks Paper Past :D
Them upstairs have decided there is nothing for me to look at this time, but good luck to those that have little nuggets of information to go on with.
Cheers
KHP