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From: Alan Beattie <>
Subject: RE: an old clipping
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:57:57 GMT
References: <3.0.6.32.20021030124414.00804100@pop.ihug.com.au>


I think that the Shetland Times started in 1872. They are all on
microfilm as are the Shetland News and several other newspapers which
had a Shetland interest. The Shetland library has a card index to some
things (births and deaths I think) to 1900but there is so much else in
all of these newspapers that we could do with a proper index to them.

There was someone in New Zealand working on an index to more recent
events in the Shetland Times but I am not sure about coverage of the
index or its availabilty.

Regards,

Alan
--
Alan Beattie
Tracing my ancestors in Shetland - Arthur, Beattie, Blance, Irvine
and in Sussex - Edwards, Kilner, Mewett, Todman and Tester



> I also have some of an old copy of The Shetland Times. Most of it is dated
> Saturday, July 26, 1879 but one page (which is definitely part of the same
> paper) is dated Saturday , July 26, 1867, probably by mistake.

> I think the main reason it was kept was because of an advertisement of
> Robert Sinclair, who was a draper and silk mercer, Union Bank Buildings,
> Lerwick and I suspect he is the same Robert who was a brother of my
> ancestor Grace (who married George Jamieson).

> Does anyone know when the Shetland Times was first produced? I assume all
> old copies have been microfilmed?

> There are some bits and pieces of genealogical significance in the small
> section of newspaper I possess which leads me to this question:

> Does anyone know whether The Shetland Times (especially older copies) have
> been indexed? There must be a wealth of info in them.

> Kathy


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