Genealogy Chat

Just thought it might be worth mentioning the British Library's Newspaper Library at Colindale, London - You can search their catalogue on the British Library website for titles of newspapers that they hold, and it will tell you the dates that the papers ran from and to - this is quite useful for older titles, as some only ran for a short period of time. You would have to visit them, unless you want to pay a packet for a search!!! They have a huge collection (apparently covering a shelf distance of over 20 miles!!!!!) I went last week, and it can be very rewarding to find extra info that you probably wouldn't find elsewhere. (It's also quite amusing reading about some the things people were arrested for!!) Nina

hi,sarah.yvonne again.i live in peregrine rd.,off nursery rd.do you know it? yvonne.

Oh, that explains it!! I lived in St. Austell, Cornwall until I was six. Regards Sarah.

Sarah, Im from Plymouth, Devon......My mother was just a big fan of 'poldark' when I was born....

Thankyou Demelza! I appreciate your imput. Are you Cornish as you have that lovely Christian name? Kind Regards Sarah.

Sarah, A while back I was looking for any reports on my great unlce who committed suicide in a public park. I rang the local newspaper from the area and explained what I was looking for and gave the very helpfull lady a date. Week or so later I received lots of photocopies of exactly the report I wanted. All it cost was the price of the phone call. I'd ring around and see if you can get anywhere that way. I found the local newspaper office very helpful and they were glad to help. Demelza

Hi Amanda Talk about 'eagle eyed!!' Thankyou ever so much. Regards Sarah.

Yvonne Thankyou so very much for the info. My Family came to Sunbury in the 1870s from Stokenchurch in Oxon. Whereabouts are you in Sunbury? Kind Regards Sarah.XX

hi,sarah. the middx. chronicle does still exist but i have no address. i live in sunbury and the staines and ashford news also includes sunbury.they come under the surrey herald,89,eastworth rd.,chertsey,surrey.tel:01932 561111.hope this might help. yvonne

Thankyou Genevieve and Janet for your input. It is very much appreciated. It happened in the Sunbury/Hampton area Genevieve. Kind Regards Sarah.

If the accident happened in Middlesex then you could access any big library in that area for this particular newspaper but the best place to go is Colindale Newspaper Library at Colindale, near the RAF museum. You can access any paper here from about 1750 onwards. Many are on fiche but not all. Janet

Sarah, Do you know where in Middlesex the accident took place? If you do then contact the local library and they may have the local newspapers on michrofiche that you can look through, or maybe even the Middlesex Chronicle, I know only of the Middlesex County Times which is now called the Ealing Gazette but I would think most of the Middlesex boroughs had their own local. Gen

Do any of you know if Records are kept of old newspapers? My Grandmother was killed in a road accident in the early 1950s. I was wondering if there would be a record of this somewhere. Regards Sarah.