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From: Ancestral Manor <>
Subject: 1817-1950 THE SCOTSMAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 15:20:52 -0400
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Hello,

See Promotion for 1 day of free access to the Edinburgh Scotsman
archives on April 6 attached below.

The Edinburgh Scotsman newspapers are extemely dense type and oversized
dailies with much regional and world news. My own original 1880s issues
run 8-16 pages and measure about 26x24 inches, although the page size
often varies by an inch or so from day to day. My 1930s issues contain
extraordinary photographs.

Click on "search" tab for advanced features by issue date ranges, sort
order or other features -like excluding advertisements. Occaisionally
produces a system error on searches, so just retry. There may be other
problems with heavy usage on the free day, but you can experiment with
search types and results before the free day. See archive.scotsman.com

Issues contain Shipping news from around the world, so even if you
aren't searching Scots, you could find a reference for a ship "heard
from" or sighted by another landing in Edinburgh.

Passenger schedules from a search on "Allan Line" shows other steamship
lines as well just from 1864-1870 shows: Allan Line from Glasgow to the
US and Canada, Allan Line from Leith to Norway & Sweden, Montreal Ocean
Steamship Company from Glasgow to Quebec & Boston & New York, Liverpool
Quebec & Montreal Steamship Company, Anchor Line of Transatlantic
Steampacket from Glasgow & Londonderry to Halifax & St John & New York,
Liverpool & Northern Brazil Steamers including Lisbon, Clyde Shipping Co
Steamers from Glasgow to Cork & Limerick & Waterford, Leith & Hull &
Hamburg Steampackets - also to Denmark, Inman Line Liverpool New York &
Philadelphia, P Henderson & Co Packets from Clyde to New Zealand, as
well as individual ships from Leith to Philadelphia, Leith to Kirkwall,
Terragona & Barcelona & Leith, emigration to Otago New Zealand,
Edinburgh to London, Glasgow & the Highlands, etc.

Good resource for gold rush, coal mining and golf history - includes US
and elsewhere.

Also all war events and other major news items reported in Scotland is
quite extensive.

The phrase "scottish clans" shows dinners and association events.

Great resource!

Sharon Sergeant
Ancestralmanor.com

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