Genealogy Chat

Thanks for that Paul - looks an interesting site - have added it to my favourites.

. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb(.)com/~dutillieul/ZOtherPapers/Index.html [remove the brackets] This is from his introduction which explains what it's all about: I have been using local British newspapers for family history research since the mid 1990's. In December '03, I decided, just as an experiment, to put on the web a sample of 200+ transcripts I'd made from a South of England newspaper called the Windsor and Eton Express (to which I added various manual indexes). Since then the content has grown significantly, and there are now approximately by July 28th 2006, over 600, principally Georgian and Victorian, newspaper transcripts, though the spread is somewhat wider, the earliest newspaper is from London[?] dating from 1647, and the most recent an Irish paper from 1870. The Index represents a sample of just under 10% of my collection, with a bias (40%) towards reports from Wiltshire e.g. 'The Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette' and 'The Salisbury and Winchester Journal'. However by the nature of the circulation of theses early newspapers there are also a considerable number of reports relating to people and places from a much wider area typically : Dorset, Hampshire, Somerset, and occasionally from Berkshire; Buckinghamshire; Middlesex; Oxfordshire; Worcestershire, Warwickshire; Northamptonshire; Sussex; Herefordshire; Surrey; Yorkshire; Lancashire; London and Ireland. The transcripts may bring you face to face with your ancestors, and if not face to face, they will still allow you step back into their world, containing as they do some national, international, and thousands of local news reports and contempory advertisements.

I can't praise this site enough. See below.