Re accessing our West Briton transcriptions - there's a website  at  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wbritonad  or just click on the link to the WEST BRITON AND CORNWALL ADVERTISER website in my address line with every post - see below - bookmark the website, or do a Google search for West Briton. Our website - maintained by Rita Bone Kopp - has a search engine that will pull up any and all references to whatever subject or surname is entered.  Plus, WE HAVE NEWS AND BMDS  FROM 1836, THROUGH THE 1840's; it's not just for the 50's.  One hint: when you've pulled up several pages of mentions, look at the entire 'destination' address, and you can see if it applies to a news article in 1837, or a BMD from 1851.  Look at the lowest line on these two examples, one "misc" the other a marriage: cornwall england newspaper Rock, has been untiring in promoting its interest, was extremely good.THE MANOR OF TREVALGA - At the Court of the manor Trevalga, held at Boscastle, on the 9th inst., the ancient  freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wbritonad/cornwall/1887/misc/n...   cornwall england newspaper Trevalga, to MISS NANCY SWEET, of St. Teath. At Plymouth, on the 25th ult., J. W. STUART, Esq., C.E. of Plymouth, son of W. STUART, Esq., superintendent of the Plymouth Breakwater freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wbritonad/cornwall/1848/marria...   Last month, when FindMyPast had their "free" weekend, I discovered some links to families previously unknown to me; it was fun to search the W.B. site for mentions of these "new" relatives - and I found a few mentions I'd overlooked to my "established" lines as well.  The British Library has chosen our site to "back up", so that if something should happen to the original site, the information won't be lost. They promised to keep their copies up-to-date technologically, so it won't become obsolete. (Remember 8-track tapes??)  They definitely have a link to our current site.  GenUKI also has a link to our site, I believe, as does the OPC site Joy mentioned.  There are lots of ways to find us - So come visit! Cheers,  Julia M. West Briton Transcriptions, 1836-1858 at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wbritonad St. Austell Area History and Genealogy at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~staustell .............................................................................  I?m sure like me, people have found the recent copies of the 1850s newspaper articles really interesting to read. None of them have ever related to anyone known to me in my family history, but as we never know where that will take us, I wondered whether in the future there was likely to be any way we could call up those mentioned without trawling through loads of old e-mails. Are they being collated anywhere that we?ll be able to call up easily? > > Jean