Thanks Boo. Can I ask how you access the Evening Chronicle? I’m searching BNA but I can’t find the funeral notices that you have shared. Not sure what I’m doing wrong!
The scans of the old newspapers often leave a lot to be desired and the OCR, even more often, garbles the synopsis so a name search doesn't always bring up results.
For each of the notices I have transcribed I've given the info help you pinpoint the newspaper, date and page
So if have a ball park date from burial registers/ certs I would specify the search criteria
as the relevant newspaper, the date of death/burial and then look a day at a time for a few days after death or a few days before burial.
and then I often find what I am looking for.
If I only have a year and a quarter and
really want to see if there's an entry I sometimes go through the newspaper day by day for the entire quarter. Its very time consuming but (for me) worth it if I find what I wanted.
- though your query was fairly straightforward and I didn't have to look at more than a couple of days for any of them.
so if you have a sub to BNA (or, as I have, to FindMyPast) then leave the search words boxes blank.Use the other filters to specify the County/Place/Newspaper and then specify the date
and because the scans are often unclear, you need to learn to decipher black blobs, letters so faint you struggle to make them out.
All of which can be a pain, but worth it for that YESSSS! moment when you get what you need.
Give it a try if you get stuck, shout out and I'll try to help.
Boo
