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Island

Island Report 7 Oct 2024 19:58

Is it my imagination or could newspapers previously be searched by area, title and years narrowed down?
It's very hard work now and throws up places not in the search criteria
:-S

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 7 Oct 2024 20:32

I think you are thinking of the actual British Newspaper Archive.

Island

Island Report 7 Oct 2024 21:04

Thanks but I've never used the BNA.
I'll take a look though.

greyghost

greyghost Report 7 Oct 2024 22:31

Click Search and ignore the All Categories Newspaper & Publications - it really only takes you to BMD notices.

Instead go a bit further down the page under the header Travel & Migration. There's a box where it says 'See if there's more to the story in our newspaper archives" Then hit the Search newspapers in the same box

****New page opens. Fiil in a relevant word under name or Keywords and press search OR click on Advanced search.

OR Click on Newspapers at top of page and get to the point *** above and go from there.

You'll get another new page where you can fill in lots of boxes along the lines you're talking about.

Hope that helps - it's more long winded than it used to be!

Island

Island Report 8 Oct 2024 13:14

Thanks greyghost, exactly what I was looking for :-D

I knew it was FMP but it used to be more straightforward.

greyghost

greyghost Report 8 Oct 2024 14:18

Wasn't it just!

Took me ages to find my way to newspapers instead of just the bmd notices.

Island

Island Report 8 Oct 2024 15:45

FMP isn't as user friendly as it was!

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 8 Oct 2024 16:20

It’s called improvements :-(

Island

Island Report 8 Oct 2024 17:21

excuse me while I chortle :-D