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WhiffingSiggs

WhiffingSiggs Report 15 Jul 2017 16:52

We used to be able to access historic newspapers through the library service, free of charge. I don't seem to be able to find this on my local county council library site (Hampshire). Has it been hijacked by FindMyWallet and Cashreunited ?

Researching:
Siggs of Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and West London, Wise of North Hampshire, Wiltshire and North London and Aubrey/Whiting of South Wales/Herefordshire.

Guinevere

Guinevere Report 15 Jul 2017 16:57

Libraries always had to pay for the service - I think it was Gale Newspapers. Maybe they can't afford to any more.

Researching:
Lowestoft and North Suffolk, Monmouthshire, Breconshire, Somerset

WhiffingSiggs

WhiffingSiggs Report 15 Jul 2017 16:58

Ah, Conservative cutbacks. Shame, I always seem to manage to pay my council tax.

Researching:
Siggs of Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and West London, Wise of North Hampshire, Wiltshire and North London and Aubrey/Whiting of South Wales/Herefordshire.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 15 Jul 2017 17:12

You can go to the Newspaper Archives site (google it), and do a preview for free ............. if you see a reference that could be connected, you could either buy credits on there, or ask someone on here who has a sub to FMP or the Platinum level on here to do the final check for you


You could also do the preview look on GR without having the expensive sub ............. just go to search, and click on Newspapers

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Caroline

Caroline Report 15 Jul 2017 19:10

Platinum level doesn't have it on here, it's an add on still but someone might have it added on.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 15 Jul 2017 20:46

You can get free online access to most of the Gale collection if you join Lancashire Libraries.

http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/libraries-and-archives/libraries/join-a-library.aspx

Though I found articles on FMP that I can't find in the Gale collection.

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

MR_MAGOO

MR_MAGOO Report 15 Jul 2017 21:23

I'm a member of Lancashire Library but don't live in Lancashire.

I can access the newspapers.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 15 Jul 2017 21:37

Same here :-D
Can't find Granny's 'misdemeanours' during the war in Lancashire Libraries, but found plenty on my gx2 uncle's train robbing attempt in 1851 :-D :-D

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Andysmum

Andysmum Report 15 Jul 2017 21:41

So can I, but I don't think anybody outside Lancashire is allowed to join now.

Also, I think Gale newspapers are mainly C19th and FMP is better for anything later.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 15 Jul 2017 21:44

Andysmum is correct ......

......... for several years, no-one living outside Lancashire has been able to join the library system.

If you joined before that, it seems that you can continue to access them


FMP carries newspapers from the 1700s as well as later than the the 1800s.

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 15 Jul 2017 22:04

If you click on the link in my first post, it says there:
"Anyone residing in the UK may join Lancashire's library service, however our eBook downloads and access to subscription resources are limited to Lancashire residents."

If you then click on 'Digital Library' on the right, there are more details - see here:

http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/libraries-and-archives/libraries/digital-library.aspx

If you then scroll down to 'Reference Online' it says:
"*Please note that a few of these resources can only be accessed for free within Lancashire Archives, Libraries and Museums marked as *in library only."

Scroll down to newspapers - there is no asterix - therefore available to all :-D

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 15 Jul 2017 23:13

I do know that several people tried to join Lancashire libraries from elsewhere in the UK 3 or 4 years ago, and it would not let them


so there are conflicting reports

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

WhiffingSiggs

WhiffingSiggs Report 16 Jul 2017 16:50

Thank you for all your help :-)

Researching:
Siggs of Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and West London, Wise of North Hampshire, Wiltshire and North London and Aubrey/Whiting of South Wales/Herefordshire.

Chris in Sussex

Chris in Sussex Report 16 Jul 2017 21:19

WS

Love..."FindMyWallet and Cashreunited" :-D

I can certainly access The Times Digital Archive, London Gazette and Illustrated London News online through my own Library service.

I could also access the Gale service but that has been withdrawn :-( Probably as previously suggested for cost reasons.

Try looking for access through your County Library's 'e' information section....If they have it so labeled.

Chris

Researching:
Avatar...My darling Dad. 1931-2019 'Take nothing on its looks, take everything on evidence. There is no better rule' Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. 'A brickwall is a problem that you haven't solved yet' Dave Annal http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/brick-walls-and-lost-ancestors/