Old newspapers.

[Quiller]

I am spitting feathers, am so wound up I could rip a tissue 

Not because the site has been withdrawn or whatever, I blame myself for not keeping a closer eye on RC.

Please feel free to place a well aimed kick at my backside.


Quiller

PS If anyone does get back in, could they please PM me, 25 Fridge Magnets, one set of Plaster Flying Ducks, Oil Lamp (no plug) and a Hostess Trolley (only 3 Wheels) Could be yours 

[Siamese Girl]

Has anyone received a reply from Gale

In a word No. 

I believe that they digitised the Times and that is only available through libraries.

Yes, but I can look at it on line at home by logging on to my library website and putting in my password etc.

I thought I'd read somewhere that The 19th Century Newspapers collection will be too expensive for ordinary libraries to make available to the public.  I think I'll give it a miss.  Although I'm only about less than an hour  from London and The British Library, it's not very practicable to try to search for ancestors at random as you can at home.

Lizzie

It's just so useful to be able to access these things at home - I'll look something up, note a few things down then while I'm doing the washing up an idea will hit me so I'll go back and look that up, then that will set me off on a different track......  a lot of my research done by serendipity and takes a huge amount of thinking time (that's probably something to do with age!  ) Going somewhere to look at the database is ok if you have a set list of things you want to look up but it wouldn't work for me.

Carole

[aghadowey]

Before I had Internet access I used to keep a list of things that I wanted to look up and save the list for a session on my library's computer. Now that I do have broadband it's wonderful to be able to find so many things so easily. I did find lots of articles in British newspaper database when it was first posted and seemed like a genuine site and was disappointed that it wasn't really open to the public.
However, my local library is only open a few hours each week and does not have subscriptions to anything (Ancestry, Times Online, etc.). The nearest LDS library is never open when it's supposed to be and has next to nothing in stock. I can't get to record offices, etc.

[suffolk*sue]

This has just been posted on another site.


There is a free trial being offered on the Gale site at present.
Go to -
http://access.gale.com/gdctrial/
and register.
I just put "None" in the 'Institution' fields and it worked.


I have tried this and it worked.

[aghadowey]

Tried that Sue but it doesn't seem to come up for me.

[Jebber]

Thanks, It worked for me.

Jebber

[suffolk*sue]

Tried that Sue but it doesn't seem to come up for me.

Do you mean you can't get past the log in page?

[Gaie]

Thanks, Sue, it's working for me also

Kind regards
Gaie

[suffolk*sue]

I am taking it that it is legitemate, if not the mods will probably remove the address.