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Blue
Hello Blue and Rosie
I was with British Newspaper Archive for many years, but my membership recently lapsed. Our Library has Ancestry and FindMyPast.
My Gale Library membership in an adjoining County stopped despite being a border town, because our local telephone exchange number has been routed via a City 8 miles in the other direction (thank you Buzby). Gale won't accept my telephone exchange, from my home, even though I have legitimate Library Membership both sides of the County Border.
Found in Newspapers my ancestors:- 1815 Marriage notice; being Elected an Overseer of Poor 1838 (for which only the 1837 Election survives); Victim of a Highway Robery and left for dead but recovering 1842; his Father selling a stationary steam engine 1843; Various Family Marriage and Deaths notices; Property advertised for sale, which they had purchased (according to the Wakefield Deed Registers); a named Man dying at the Bar of their Dram Shop and some of their property being sold and a brief inquest 1870. One granted a School Placement by a Freemasons Charity and two winning the Diocesan prize for Teaching.
Newspapers are very difficult due to poor OCR and the above have been found with great patience over about 5 years or more.
I feel, we have about exhausted pay per view information online and my wife and I are exploring offline records in Archives, e.g. numerous Wills of my family name, Quaker Minutes offline (not in their BMD though), Manor records etc., which we shall continue, already with some success! But not enough success in Archives yet to confirm who my elusive ancestor really was.
Mark
Added; Thanks Josephine ...
I was trying to get a deal (both together).