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Messages - jc26red

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The Common Room / Re: Accessing Historic Newspapers - Which is Better, BNA or FindMyPast?
« on: Sunday 24 December 23 19:19 GMT (UK)  »
I did most of my research on this family quite a few years ago now, the OCR on FindMyPast wasn’t that good back then but I persevered. Just entered the names I was researching and hit go, thankfully the name isn’t that common.

I shall have a look at INA and see if they have anything of interest to me. Co Limerick, Dublin and Cork mostly with the odd article popping up in Tipperary. Thank you.

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The Common Room / Re: Accessing Historic Newspapers - Which is Better, BNA or FindMyPast?
« on: Sunday 24 December 23 18:40 GMT (UK)  »
Wexflyer, I have founds loads, in excess of 300, of newspaper articles on my husband’s family in Ireland on FindMyPast, their Irish collection is brilliant.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: I need help again please
« on: Friday 22 December 23 16:12 GMT (UK)  »
His DOB in 1939 was recorded as 14 Jul 1871

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The Common Room / Re: Government proposal to digitise wills (and destroy originals after 25 years)
« on: Thursday 21 December 23 16:24 GMT (UK)  »
There is now open consultation where you can air your views if you wish. Link curtesy of the National Archives

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/storage-and-retention-of-original-will-documents

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The Common Room / Re: British Genealogy
« on: Tuesday 12 December 23 20:37 GMT (UK)  »
Try emailing the contact us email address on this link. Do make sure you mention that you are a member of British Genealogy as it looks like the email address is the hosting site contact details.

https://www.british-genealogy.com/forum/terms-and-conditions.php#contacting-us

Alternatively use a hotmail or gmail email address and create a new account and then contact a British  Genealogy direct from within the forum and ask for your original to be reset. It’s not obvious unless you are actually in the Bg forum.

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Ireland Resources / Re: National Archives Dublin
« on: Wednesday 06 December 23 22:12 GMT (UK)  »
I’ve not ordered documents from the NA Dublin before, do they not accept online payments via credit card? Credit cards can be used for foreign currency payments with no problem, some like Chase do not charge for the service either and offer and extremely good rate of exchange.

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The Common Room / Re: Find My Past Newspaper search changing
« on: Tuesday 05 December 23 11:39 GMT (UK)  »
Just tried it again, and it’s back to normal from the search button at the top but….


If you click on the three lines at the top of the main search page and select search, the drop down has changed and newspapers has been disabled, the drop down has also changed colour.


I used to work at HP, writing technical help pages for their various printers, pcs, plotters etc., and did lots of site testing for them, especially when new models came out so I am very aware of what goes on behind the scenes on large corporate websites. I search FindMyPast and Ancestry several times a week and have done so since they began.

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The Common Room / Re: Find My Past Newspaper search changing
« on: Tuesday 05 December 23 11:31 GMT (UK)  »
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I did not find the Newspaper searching on FindMyPast of any use at all.

I found masses of info on the BNA site and it was this info that I looked for on FindMyPast where it found zero articles.

So my suggestion is to not rely just on one set I did not find the Newspaper searching on FindMyPast of any use at all.

I found masses of info on the BNA site and it was this info that I looked for on FindMyPast where it found zero articles.

So my suggestion is to not rely just on one site

I find newspapers on FindMyPast. Extremely useful. Over 350 entries for my husband Irish ancestors.

I found one for my grandfather who was a farmer, buying 2 prize pigs in Reading market.  I have lots of photos of these prize pigs and it was nice to add how much they cost  :o

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The Common Room / Re: Find My Past Newspaper search changing
« on: Tuesday 05 December 23 11:27 GMT (UK)  »
Strange, I first went to search and selected newspapers from the drop down menu.

Happened always I tried.

Maybe they flipped the switch back to testing and I just happened to try the small window they were live testing…

I just hope they don’t implement the change.

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