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new historic Australian newspapers site (free acce

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HeatherofOz

HeatherofOz Report 31 Jul 2008 17:01

Thanks for this. Have spent a lovely couple of hours searching for articles on family. Heather

maryjane-sue

maryjane-sue Report 31 Jul 2008 16:28

Great site - many thanks

MaryfromItaly

MaryfromItaly Report 31 Jul 2008 16:19

That's a brilliant site, Kathleen, thanks very much.

Helen

Helen Report 31 Jul 2008 15:13

Kathleen,

Thanks for bringing this website to our attention!

I've found lots of info already and I've only just started looking.

Elisabeth

Elisabeth Report 31 Jul 2008 12:20

I do wish people would stop posting interesting websites, and stopping me from getting on with chores. (Tongue in cheek, not criticism!)

I suppose it would be better not to press refresh every time I pass the computer, with duster in hand!

Thanks Kathleen, it looks very interesting. I will be lost for hours in various searches.

Elisabeth

Update - not putting vacuum cleaner on, as waiting for a return call from a crematorium and don't want to miss it. I'm searching for the name of who took a relative's ashes 50 years ago, as there are various claimed resting places for them!

Kathleen

Kathleen Report 31 Jul 2008 12:06

Sorry if I'm not posting this on the right board...

I've just been looking at http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au - a new government-funded website (still under development) where the National Library of Australia is starting to load scanned Australian newspapers up to the 1950s. It's going to be very interesting for genies as it gets larger - it's searchable by keywords or by browsing individual newspapers.

They show the scanned page as an image, divided into articles, etc, and computer-converted text for each snippet. The really old articles often seem to have rubbish text - probably because the computers just can't read the info from the page (it's a scan of an old microfiche, which was originally copied from an old newspaper) - but the image is still legible to a person (you can zoom in to it) and they're encouraging people to fix the text errors as they're seen.

An example obit notice from 1811 is here:
http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/628265

Have fun! I keep getting distracted from my surname searches because I want to fix the article errors...