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From: Charani <>
Subject: Re: [B&D] Free Newspapers!
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:00:39 +0000
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Liz wrote:

>>From another list I am on.
>
> This is a free trial of 19th Century British newspaper searching available
> for about 3 weeks.
>
> http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/palci07?id=trial&db=BNCN
>
> The Advanced Search option lets you narrow. you can choose People
> (birth/marr/death) or News or Notices or a combination, or you can choose
> All. You need to have Cookies allowed to be able to access. There are
> Bristol newspapers there!!

I've just put in the rarest of the names I'm doing and came up with
nearly 1600 hits!! I don't think I'll try with some of the more
common ones like PARKER!!! ROFL

However, one of the hits was in the Bristol Mercury and there
shouldn't have been any there at all but it's solved a puzzle about a
cousin's wife - or one of them! :)) Oh, and the marriage wasn't in
Bristol but in London!! The only reason I can see for it being in
that paper was because one of the vicars conducting the marriage
happened to be from Bristol.

I also found a PURSY (of Shapwick) marriage in the same paper.
--
Charani (UK)
OPC for Walton, SOM
http://wsom-opc.org.uk

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